10 Mar 2011
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6 Mar 2011
The Power of Community – “How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”
The Power of Community. How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (sub español) from El Tránsito Necesario on Vimeo.
This documentary inspires on so many levels.
Huge thanks to our brothers and sisters of Cuba, for showing how to live a different way…and for setting such a beautiful pace!!
11 Jan 2011
Geoff Lawton talks “SOIL”
Want to learn more??
go here….
….get these DVD’s!!
http://permaculture.org.au/store/permaculture_soils_dvd.htm
http://permaculture.org.au/store/introduction_to_permaculture_design_dvd.htm
http://permaculture.org.au/store/food_forest_dvd.htm
In these videos, you will learn how to establish your own food forest, while increasing soil fertility.
I’ve watched each one of these DVD’s about a dozen times now…and will probably watch them a dozen times more. So much info to glean and put into action.
This is the kind of info, that can feed and house us, as a people, and at the same time…help heal the planet.
Have fun, creating your own food forest!!
27 Dec 2010
“Dirt!” The Movie
This is such a great documentary…full of inspiring and educational info!!
….catch the full movie right here…it’s SO GOOD!!
1 Aug 2010
“It was the best of times…it was the worst of times”
The BEST of TIMES….
..and of course, the WORST of TIMES….
Thank you…from our hearts… to those showing a new way.
So grateful..to know there is another way to live.
Goodbye…goodbye…goodbye…to the ways that no longer serve us.
Check out, Anthony Anderson’s site
for more ideas…and solutions.
1 Feb 2010
Winter Update
Here’s the Winter update..in photos and video. So many plants to play around with!! Getting ready for Spring..by amending soil in current beds, creating more soil for future beds and selecting, starting and planting more seeds and seedlings!!! We’re also building swales on contour.. and putting in more nitrogen fixers.
oh..and.. I did a lady bug release last night..in the dome..go get em ladies!
- Building my first swale in the front yard..FOOD FOREST! The rain..comes out of the gutter to the right..and hits the swale.
- Instead of running straight down the hill..to the street..it fills the swale..especially the middle..then sinks in..keeping nutrients on the property and builds up a water “lens” underneath the fruit trees.
- One of the many simple techniques of Permaculture. I love SWALES! SO much WATER SAVED. We will be planting fruiting/nitrogen fixing plants on top of the swale very soon..
- Early in morning..7AM..still frozen
- Later in the morning..10AM..venting the tunnels
- Mixed heirloom romaine lettuces..Jericho, Paris Island, Freckles
- The brassica bed, still growing..but frozen in the morning.
- I love seeing the Kale’s freeze back..then warm up..greeting the sun!
- ….one hour later..unfrozen and happy!
- Mixed greens..still coming up..spinach, arugula, lettuce, tatsoi, bok choy, kale, chard, collard
- Garlic starting to show her aerial parts…so tasty..to even eat the leaves. It’s China Rose.
- Asian Pear..this one is Shinseiki
- Tunnel growing in a few beds..and building soil for future beds.
- Under Porch..microclimate..winter refuge..for succulents and other plants
- Red Wiggler..surfin..on the plastic hoop tunnel. Tons of them came out of the beds during the rains..to surf..it appears.
- Succulents..my sweet aloe. Goji seedlings wintering over in the little pots to the left.
- Inside..the Growing Dome
Have FUN..GROWING YOUR OWN FOOD!
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