Category: farming/gardening
Posted on June 17, 2019
by John Jeavons
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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… Continue Reading “Maybe Read This: Experiments with Plants, 6th Edition”
Category: about crops, books, crops, farming/gardening, GROW THE EARTH, interesting practices, plants, plants and seeds, practical guides, unusual techniquesTags: Botany, Experiments with plants, Osterhout
Posted on May 28, 2019
by John Jeavons
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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… Continue Reading “Save Water! Use Seedling Flats!”
Category: Biointensive, farming/gardening, GROW THE EARTH, my writing, plant health, plants, pricking out/transplanting, roots and vigor, seedling flats, sustainability, sustainable practices, Transplanting, water conservation, water conservationTags: Biointensive, seedling flats, sustainable, transplanting, Water Conservation
Posted on May 13, 2019
by John Jeavons
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It is wonderful how the Earth gives us an abundance of delicious, beneficial, healing plants that we can grow and use to make our lives better. I have so many favorite books, and Healing Spices – How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices… Continue Reading “The World is Filled with Solutions: A Guidebook to Healing Spices”
Category: books, farming/gardening, GROW THE EARTH, herbalism, medicinal plants, My favorite things, nutrition, plants, practical guidesTags: bharat aggarwal, book, debora yost, guide, healing, health, herbalism, spices
Posted on April 30, 2019
by John Jeavons
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Living in a rural area, it’s not always possible to get to the vet in an emergency, and we must do what we can with what we have. Example: a friend had to google “dog Heimlich maneuver” when her dog started choking – and… Continue Reading “Who’s A Good Boy? The Doctors Book of Home Remedies for Dogs and Cats”
Posted on April 23, 2019
by John Jeavons
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So, here’s another post about roots. This time, I want to talk about how deep soil preparation (double-digging) works to increase the health and yields of plants by giving them room to spread out. Did you know that the average carrot puts down an… Continue Reading “Can You Dig It? How Deep Soil Preparation and Structure Makes All the Difference to Your Plants”
Category: Biointensive, books, Deep Soil Preparation, farming/gardening, GROW THE EARTH, interesting practices, nutrient cycling, plant health, preparation, publications, roots and vigor, soil, Soil Fertility, sustainable practicesTags: Biointensive, Deep Soil Preparation, double-digging, GROW BIOINTENSIVE, how to grow more vegetables, nutrition, plant health, roots, yields
Posted on April 15, 2019
by John Jeavons
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Spring has sprung, and it’s time to get your seedlings in gear for a productive year! In keeping with the season, I thought that this would be a good time to discuss the benefits of pricking out your seedlings before you transplant them. Many… Continue Reading ““Pricking Out”: Greatly Increase Plant Health and Yields by Transferring Seedlings from Flat to Flat Before Final Transplanting”
Category: Biointensive, farming/gardening, GROW THE EARTH, nutrition, plant health, Pricking Out, pricking out/transplanting, roots and vigor, sustainability, sustainable practices, Transplanting, unusual techniquesTags: Biointensive, crops, farming, gardening, GROW BIOINTENSIVE, nutrition, plant health, pricking out, roots, transplanting, yields
Posted on March 25, 2019
by John Jeavons
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Sustainability isn’t a new concept. For almost 50 years I have worked to create a form of agriculture that helps all people grow abundant nutritious food and fertile soil, in harmony with this beautiful earth. I know that I have been helped and… Continue Reading “Old Ways, New Farmers: How Native Wisdom Can Help Us Create a Better Future”
Category: about crops, arid climate, books, ethnobotany, farming/gardening, GROW THE EARTH, history, history of agriculture, interesting practices, medicinal plants, My favorite things, Native American, Native American practices, native plant, native plants, plants, sustainability, unusual techniquesTags: Akta Lakota, Daniel Moerman, ethnobotany, first people, Handbook of Indian Foods and Fibers of Arid America, hopi, Medicinal plants, Native American Medicinal Plants—An Ethnobotanical Dictionary:, Native peoples, north america, The Hopi Survival Kit, Thomas Mails, tribes
Posted on March 18, 2019
by John Jeavons
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These days, everyone seems to have a slow cooker to make life easier. But guess what? There’s a simpler, less expensive alternative that’s been helping rural people cook food and conserve fuel for at least 200 years! According to Wikipedia, a haybox is a… Continue Reading “Haybox: The 18th Century Slow Cooker”
Category: books, cook stoves, cookstoves, energy conservation, farming/gardening, GROW THE EARTH, interesting practices, practical guides, sustainability, sustainable practices, unusual techniquesTags: cooking, Eleanour Sinclair Bohde, energy, energy conservation, haybox cookery, thermal cooker
Posted on March 13, 2019
by John Jeavons
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In the 1980s, Ron Whitehurst of ACRES U.S.A. wrote: “Central Florida is being mined down sea level for phosphate clay; and spiraling natural gas prices are making synthetic nitrogen fertilizer exorbitantly priced. Even using all the solid and liquid wastes from the cities, there… Continue Reading “Feed the Soil”
Category: about crops, Biointensive, books, compost, compost crops, cover crops, farming/gardening, green manure, GROW THE EARTH, legumes, nutrient cycling, plants, practical guides, soil, Soil Fertility, sustainability, sustainable practicesTags: Biointensive, cover crops, edwin mcleod, feed the soil, gardening, green manure, kusa, legumes, Lorenz Schaller, nitrogen fixers, nutrient cycling, soil, soil fertility
Posted on February 17, 2019
by John Jeavons
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423: John Jeavons on Biologically Intensive Gardening & Farming (Part 1) More recent podcast interviews with John: Online: John Jeavons is featured on TUC Radio John Jeavons was featured as a part of a TUC Radio mini series on Soil, a response… Continue Reading “Urban Farms Podcast! And Gardenerd! And TUC Radio!”
Category: Biointensive, events, farming/gardening, food security, GROW THE EARTH, My favorite things, my writing, philosophy, podcast, presentations, sustainability, sustainable practicesTags: 2019, Biointensive, Ecology Action, Gardenerd, John Jeavons, podcast, sustainability, TUC Radio, Urban Farms Radio
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