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Comment by Dave Simons on March 30, 2013 at 1:28pm

Biodesign farm in Montana

http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/permaculture/permaculture-farm-pr...

Comment by Tom Gibson on February 4, 2013 at 7:27am

We've got one seat left to carpool from the Heights to Dan Kittredge's Oberlin seminar next Sunday, Feb. 10 (per Glenn's comments below).  If you want a ride, please contact me at granvilletgibson@gmail.com

Comment by Glenn on February 2, 2013 at 8:42pm

This is a reminder that the registration deadline is Monday, February 4.     There is much information that is new to all but a few gardeners/farmers.  Biological farming methods have advanced to the point of near complete disease and insect resistance.  A healthy plant (one which provides ample exudates for the rhizosphere, complete sucking insect resistant proteins, lipids for airborne resistance, and insect indigestible plant secondary metabolites) should not need ANY pesticides, organic or otherwise.  A diseased or insect eaten plant is showing symptoms of poor health.  Recent understanding of ways to achieve plant health and optimal genetic expression and yields has made this possible.  This is the level of expectation of results from this method.  **Scholarships are still available for growers.**    http://www.localfoodcleveland.org/events/farming-for-optimal-nutrie...
Feb. 10 and Apr. 7, 9:30-4:30, 218 N. Pleasant St., Oberlin.
Register at: http://bionutrient.org/workshops

Comment by Tom Gibson on January 23, 2013 at 12:13pm

I'm going to Glenn's event and would be interested in carpooling with anyone else who is going.  Let me know via e-mail at GranvilleTGibson@gmail.com

Tom Gibson

Comment by Glenn on January 23, 2013 at 11:43am

Not your everyday gardening/farming workshop!  

Exceptional opportunity.  Biological farming methods can produce crops with complete disease and insect resistance while increasing production.  Average crop yields in the US only average 10-15% of genetic potential, and nowhere near nutrient density potential.  Learn how each plant can achieve as much of its potential as possible!!
Please consider attending --
http://www.localfoodcleveland.org/events/farming-for-optimal-nutrie...
Feb. 10 and Apr. 7, 9:30-4:30, 218 N. Pleasant St., Oberlin.
Register at: http://bionutrient.org/workshops
$150.  Scholarships for growers.  Please distribute this announcement.
Thank you!
Glenn

Comment by Tia Lebherz on March 8, 2012 at 2:56pm

Hey Everyone,

Food and Water Watch, City Rising Farm, Blaine Avenue Community Garden and The Green Triangle are teaming up to GREEN your St. Patty's Day. Join us on March 17 from 9:30am-noon at City Rising's Permaculture Garden to help prep for spring planting and learn more about how the farm bill affects us all!

Check out the event here: http://www.localfoodcleveland.org/events/green-your-st-patricks-day

Hope to see and meet you all there!

Comment by Gary D Whipple on February 16, 2011 at 10:03pm

From the Buckeye/Woodland High Tunnels Work and Learn.  Hope to be able to come back and see the water bags we made holders for.

Comment by Dave Simons on February 16, 2011 at 11:53am

John,

   The link to Our Photos has nothing on it.  Please add the right link.

Comment by John Stupica on February 16, 2011 at 1:25am

Added pictures from the Work and Learn event held Sunday Feb 13, 2011 at Cleveland Botanical Garden and the visit to the Hi Tunnels at the Buckeye/Woodland Garden site.   Check out the Our Photo section from link above.

Comment by Dave Simons on February 21, 2010 at 3:49pm

I attended one day of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture's annual meeting, "Farming for the Future", a couple weeks ago This is a large group of organic food producers who provide vegetables and fruits, meat milk, and eggs, shelf ready food products, hand crafts, and more. The largest, most impressive such gathering I've ever experienced. I was a small producer myself in northern New Mexico, in the late seventies.

The keynote speaker was Mike Reynolds, from Taos, New Mexico, who has been developing a completely self sustaining home and community, low impact on biosystems, set of solutions for some forty years. His designs, called Earthships, have been built in large numbers in New Mexico and many other places world wide. They are built largely from discarded materials (trash) and locally gathered low impact materials. They provide all their own electricity, collect all the water needed from rain and snow fall, recycle water, dispose of sewage, are passive solar heated and cooled, and the latest versions grow all their own food both indoors and outside. And they are beautiful, with a fine sense of artistry.
So I highly commend his excellent website, EARTHSHIP.COM , as an instructional source of inspiration for how to do comprehensive sustainable design. Permaculture is one of the important aspects of this wholistic vision.


Dave Jacke, who wrote Edible Forest Gardens and much more, is one of the most original and capable visionary designers of sustainable living. His afternoon workshop was invigorating and inspiring, keeping the large audience rapt for every moment. He is an exceptionally energetic generalist, a highly original and comprehensive thinker, who happens to apply broad knowledge to the specialty of edible forest gardening. He knows the specific techniques and choices to make for our specific environment.

The massive interrelated advantages of this set of techniques include creating habitat and sustenance for a wide range of native creatures, conserving and creating vital topsoils, increasing the variety and resilience of primary foods, establishing beauty in our built environment, using land efficiently so that we can leave room for nature in undisturbed areas [ecosystem preservation], increasing resilience of our culture in the event of technological breakdown or disruption of energy and other supplies, increasing knowledge of and respect for nature, improving physical health. And of course, enhancing sanity and spiritual well being by connecting us with the range of natural processes, and orientation to our place in the universe.

Dave Jacke covered all these issues and more in a fast paced, well organized presentation, that delivered much of the specifics of how to do our own permaculture design. And did so with humbleness and encouragement of creative action by each of us.

His website, EdibleForestGardens.com , expands on all of this more effectively than I can, and provides networking that any of us can plug into. The following is a couple paragraphs from the main page:



Welcome from Dave Jacke
Photo of skirret (Sium sisarum) roots by Eric Toensmeier

EdibleForestGardens.com is dedicated to offering inspiring and practical information on the vision, ecology, design, and stewardship of perennial polycultures of multipurpose plants in small-scale settings. We intend this website to grow into an information and networking resource for newcomers, amateurs, students, and serious practitioners and researchers alike.

Forest gardening is an idea whose time has come. We can consciously apply the principles of ecology to the design of home scale gardens that mimic forest ecosystem structure and function, but grow food, fuel, fiber, fodder, fertilizer, "farmaceuticals," and fun. Indeed, we must begin learning to apply ecological principles to the design of our food production systems now—we are rapidly approaching or are already at the peak of planetary oil production, and the world of energy descent is upon us. This sea change in our culture will require that we learn to live within our energetic means and begin to rebuild ecosystems that support human and humane lives without diminishing the ability of the ecosystem to support our children and grandchildren.

While this global problem is huge, most of the solutions available to us are local, personal, empowering, and potentially enlivening, enlightening, and fun. Edible forest gardening is one of these solutions, and we now have the resources at hand to transform our own yards and gardens into productive paradises. We intend this website and the book Edible Forest Gardens that you can buy here to give you the most sophisticated and down-to-earth information available to maximize your success as a forest gardener.





so enjoy and expand your mind in both of these websites: EARTHSHIP.COM and EDIBLEFORESTGARDENS.COM

happy trails, Dave Simons

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