Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Need a good book for your winter vacation? Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle provides information for how to live locally, seasonally, and happily, while detailing her story of living off the land for a year.
New Gardenerd Hand Care Kit — How it came to be
I'm a self-proclaimed soap whore. Let me clarify...I love bar soap. None of that anti-bacterial frothing pump stuff for me thank you very much. I need a bar I can roll around in my hands, something that cuts through the layers of green tomato plant juice in the summer. Something that scrubs away the dirt under my nails, but leaves me feeling like I've just done something decadent for myself.
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Ecology Action Farm
It's been busy here, launching the new website and 2 new products for the holiday season, so blogging has taken a back seat until now. These blog entries are really my favorite things to do (besides harvesting succulent veggies while laughing in the face of commercial agriculture), and writing them gives me an excuse to venture out to new territory.
So we continue with the Grow BioIntensive workshop that I attended in the ...
Black Friday
Holiday gift giving doesn't have to be store bought. You can give gifts from the garden. This week's tip offers a few suggestions.
Grow BioIntensive Workshop
At the beginning of November I attended the 3-day Grow BioIntensive workshop in Willits, CA. It blew my mind. In fact, it took my brain out of my
head, turned it inside out and put it back in. What is Grow BioIntensive, you ask? Well, let me attempt to explain it in less than three days:
Grow BioIntensive is a method of gardening/farming that combines French Intensive, which useshexagonal plant spacing"2">as well as double-digging ...
Grow some Compost
If you really want to be sustainable, you can grow your own top soil - in the form of compost, that is. This week's tip focuses on how you can feed your garden and build top soil at the same time.
Grow BioIntensive
I just got back from a 3-day workshop at Ecology Action and found this to be one of the most comprehensive closed-system organic gardening methods available.
A Visit to the Solar Living Institute
Back in my early college years, all I wanted to do was make bread and swing in a hammock all day. I dove head-first into environmental issues and chose
recycling as my personal passion. Along with the strong desire to sort trash came an awareness of solar power and all its benefits. It was then that I discovered Real Goods.
Real Goods had not yet been bought by Gaiam.com when ...
Woolly Pocket School Garden Project on Dwell Magazine Website
I just got word today that we've been mentioned in an online article for Dwell Magazine.
Miguel Nelson brought me in as the garden expert for the project and we partnered with School Nutrition Plus to create the Woolly Pocket School Garden Program back in early Summer 2009. So far, we've installed 5 school gardens and we're about to venture into Arizona to reach other schools.
Here's a chance to see what goes on in Miguel's head when he invents these great ideas for our participating schools:
Give your Tools a Tuneup
Keep your tools in tip top shape this fall with these handy instructions for cleaning and sharpening your garden tools.
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