John Jeavons
Grow the Earth. Grow Biointensive. Grow Abundance.
Events
John Jeavons presents workshops, classes and lectures through the year on GROW BIOINTENSIVE Sustainable Mini-Farming.
Meet John Jeavons
John Jeavons is the Executive Director of the globally active non-profit Ecology Action, located in Willits, CA, and is a leader in the field of Biointensive agriculture.
News and Links
Links to pages of interest, including Ecology Action, biointensive resources, and news, articles, and podcasts.
Gardening Without Poisons: A Constructive Answer to the Pesticide Problem
According to Wikipedia, human agriculture arose independently in at least eleven regions of the old and new world dating back to at least 20,000 BCE. Use of irrigation, crop rotation, and fertilizers began in the Neolithic age, but were greatly refined and expanded over…
Maybe Read This: Experiments with Plants, 6th Edition
As a farmer and a researcher, I am constantly reminded that agriculturalists from earlier times are often the best teachers. Experiments with Plants (6th ed.) written in 1911 by Harvard Associate Professor of Botany Dr. W.J. V Osterhout, is a good example of this…
Save Water! Use Seedling Flats!
Or: How to feed an extra person and still save over 5,000 gallons per year. It may be a little late in the season for this post (at least in this hemisphere), but we just had a series of storms that would feel right…