April 9, 2010 at 5:30pm to April 10, 2010 at 10:30pm
The Greening the Community conference will be held April 9-10 at Case Western Reserve University. This conference will have a strong focus on Northeast Ohio, and will cover topics such as organic gardening and community spaces, lawn pesticide bans,…
Peter Bane, one of the world's leading advocates for permaculture and local food systems, will speak on how permaculture can help build healthier local economies and the people they serve. A longtime permaculture practitioner, teacher, and editor of…
Visiting soil biology expert Jeff Newman demonstrates how to increase beneficial soil bacteria by over 1,000X with aerated compost tea. The bacteria expand your garden's soil food web---all the while sequestering carbon and increasing crop yields. $…
Petasites is a terrific plant - definitely a bit rambunctious but if you are harvesting it, it should be controllable for sure.
I mispoke about stinging nettle (Utica dioica), the wood nettle you have (Laportea) is better in shade. Hydrophyllum vir…
Herbaceous companions to ramps? The ones Luke mentioned are great. Here are a couple other possibilities.
Edible companions might include Ostrich fern (fiddleheads), Rubus odoratus (shrub), Viola species, and Urtica dioica - stinging nettle, with u…
I'm a "career horticulturist" (overeducated gardener). I write, photograph, paint, cook, read, and hike (usually involving plants and nature) when I'm not actually gardening.
What about local food makes you most excited?
support the local economy, better use of resources, fresher food, sense of connection to a place
they were pretty good, but they had to be eaten within a couple of days or they went bad pretty quickly. downside of fresh food. did you sign up on meet up and join the northcoast wine group? i'm planning on going to the organic wine event at fire.