Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Currently Reading
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TEAMING WITH BACTERIA
The Organic Gardener's Guide to Endophytic Bacteria and the Rhizophagy Cycle

Jeff Lowenfels

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Currently Reading
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TEAMING WITH FUNGI
The Organic Grower's Guide to Mycorrhizae

Jeff Lowenfels

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Currently Reading
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TEAMING WITH NUTRIENTS
The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition

Jeff Lowenfels

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Currently Reading
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TEAMING WITH MICROBES
The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web

Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis

Thursday, April 28, 2022

ORIENTAL VEGETABLES
The Complete Guide for Garden and Kitchen
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Joy Larkcom

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Monday, February 14, 2022

THE HEIRLOOM LIFE GARDENER
The Baker Creek Way of Growing Your Own Food Easily and Naturally
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Jere and Emilee Gettle
Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company

 

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

HEIRLOOM VEGETABLE GARDENING
A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History
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William Woys Weaver

Introduction by Jere Gettle

 

Thursday, February 3, 2022

THE HEIRLOOM GARDENER
Traditional Plants and Skills for the Modern World
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John Forti

 

Tuesday, October 8, 2019


FOOLS AND DREAMERS:
REGENERATING A NATIVE FOREST

Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the introduced ‘weed’ gorse to grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate farmland into native forest, people were not only skeptical but outright angry – the plan was the sort to be expected only of “fools and dreamers”.

Now considered a hero locally and across the country, Hugh oversees 1500 hectares resplendent in native forest, where birds and other wildlife are abundant and 47 known waterfalls are in permanent flow. He has proven without doubt that nature knows best – and that he is no fool.




Monday, September 16, 2019


THE FOREST GARDEN GREENHOUSE -
HOW TO DESIGN AND MANAGE AN INDOOR PERMACULTURE OASIS
Jerome Osentowski

Thursday, September 5, 2019


THE VERTICAL FARM - 
FEEDING THE WORLD IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Dr. Dickson Despommier

Friday, July 19, 2019



CITIZEN FARMERS:
THE BIODYNAMIC WAY TO GROW HEALTHY FOOD, BUILD THRIVING COMMUNITIES, AND GIVE BACK TO THE EARTH

Daron Joffe, 2004

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

 

A tour of Limestone Permaculture Farm in New South Wales, Australia. Brett Cooper manages the 1-acre property as a productive farm helping to feed around 50 families. The tour includes a look at the orchard, caravan farm gate, chicken and duck areas, and shade house, and Brett talks about what brought him and his family to this complete change of lifestyle – in which they are thriving.



Friday, June 14, 2019


A tour of Purple Pear Farm in New South Wales, Australia, a permaculture and biodynamic farm with rotating tractor domes over mandala garden beds, pigs, chooks, and some great philosophy. Mark and Kate run a small CSA (community supported agriculture) offering veggie boxes to their local community.

They dream not of growing ever bigger and bigger and controlling the market for veggies in their region, but rather of staying small and supporting other vegetable growers to initiate similar projects, or even to join theirs, so that everyone in the community is eating well and living well. Now there’s a vision to be inspired by!



Friday, May 3, 2019


A SIMPLER WAY:
CRISIS AS OPPORTUNITY

A feature-length documentary that follows a community in Australia who have come together to explore and demonstrate a simpler way to live in response to global crises. Throughout the year the group build tiny houses, plant veggie gardens, practice simple living and permaculture principles, and discover the challenges of living in community. This documentary, our very first!, was shot while we were living on the property for the entire year as part of the community. The documentary includes interviews with David Holmgren, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Nicole Foss, Ted Trainer, Graham Turner, and more.

Download the film - happenfilms.com/store

Download the book by Samuel Alexander - griffithreview.com


Friday, March 29, 2019


The Plummery is a suburban home where a backyard permaculture garden measuring only 100sq/m (1076 sq feet) produces over 400kg/900 pounds of food year-round.

Kat Lavers describes her approach to gardening, including vertical and biointensive growing, and how important it is – and possible! – for city dwellers to be food resilient in the face of natural, financial and social crises. We were very inspired by how little day-to-day effort goes into creating such an abundance of food!