Gardening entries
Six Steps to Creating Your Own Organic Permaculture Garden
Organic gardening avoids the use of chemicals to make plants grow or protect them from insects, relying instead on natural gardening principles used for thousands of years. Permaculture organic gardening goes a step further and also emphasizes growing plants sustainably, working with rather than against the grain of the natural environment. Permaculture organic gardening is [...]
What is Biodynamics?
What is Biodynamic agriculture? In seeking an answer let us pose the further question: Can the Earth heal itself, or has the waning of the Earths vitality gone too far for this? No matter where our land is located, if we are observant we will see sure signs of illness in trees, in our cultivated [...]
Growing In Harmony With Nature
A Permaculture Farm: The Perennial Revolution of Oikos Tree Crops A Michigan permaculture farm defies the agricultural status quo by growing in harmony with nature. Hidden within the rolling forested hills and vineyard-covered valleys of southwest Michigan, on the outskirts of a town that embodies rural Midwest culture, is a tiny farm that, if not [...]
Seeds Hold The Key To A GMO-Free Food Future
Seeds hold the key to a GMO-free food future Want to get GMOs out of our food? Start with the seed. It sounds simple, but non-GM seed breeders and farmers face many challenges in their efforts to provide organic food. A single food seed can be as tiny as a grain of sand. Yet many [...]
The Future of Food (Documentary)
The Future of Food There is a food revolution happening in America today. People are seeking out farmers’ markets, organic produce and good restaurants. At the same time, our food supply is increasingly controlled by multi-national corporations. Over the past 10 years, with the advent of genetic engineering and the massive expansion of pesticide companies, [...]
Medicinal Plant, Cannabis (Video)
PBS: Cannabis is Effective at Treating Multiple Conditions Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour. Article Content From: YouTube & PBS
Don’t Panic, Go Organic
Approaching the Collapse: Don’t Panic, Go Organic So-called “business as usual” is neither sustainable, nor even possible, for much longer. Out-of-control energy corporations, Wall Street, the Pentagon, agribusiness/biotech corporations, and indentured politicians have driven us to the brink. They tell us: don’t worry; trust the experts, things will soon return to “normal.” But reality and [...]
Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution
Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution — An Interview with Bill Mollison Bill Mollison calls himself a field biologist and itinerant teacher. But it would be more accurate to describe him as an instigator. When he published Permaculture One in 1978, he launched an international land-use movement many regard as subversive, even revolutionary. Permaculture — from permanent and [...]
Gardening: Make Your Own Black Gold by Creating Compost
Growing up we used to have a dessert which combined dried fruits and sweetened wine that was called “compote.” Being that I had three brothers and a sister with me at the dining table, you can imagine that we quickly renamed it “compost” and I can’t ever think of one without thinking of the other. [...]
Building A Medicinal Garden (Video)
Who owns our health? Building a medicinal garden This medicinal herb spiral garden in central London was designed and built to provide herbs as medicine in everyday home remedies. Who owns our health? This is the question asked by Dr Vivienne Lo who planted our medicinal herb garden in Mecklenburgh Square. The garden includes an [...]
