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Posted on March 18, 2019
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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…
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…
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
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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…
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
Posted on January 30, 2019
by John Jeavons
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Each year around this time, following months of freezing cold and heavy rain, Northern California experiences a “false spring” – the sun shines, the temperature is balmy and pleasant, and the grey and wintry landscape is suddenly covered in a bright green veil as…
Category: biodynamic, biodynamic, books, farming/gardening, GROW THE EARTH, interesting practices, nutrition, philosophy, plant health, soil, sustainability, unusual techniquesTags: biodynamic, gardening, Gardening for Health and Nutrition, health, herbicides, nutrition, pesticides, Philbrick, philosophy, weeds
Posted on December 22, 2018
by John Jeavons
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This month (December 2018) a commentary piece, Put More Carbon in Soils to Meet Paris Climate Pledges, was published in the journal Nature. It was written by scientists specializing in climate change and agriculture who serve on the science and technical committee of the organization…
Category: Biointensive, Ecology Action, events, farming/gardening, GROW THE EARTH, My favorite things, my writing, soil, sustainability, sustainable practicesTags: 4 per 1000, Carbon, carbon sequestration, climate change, compost, Ecology Action, GROW BIOINTENSIVE, John Jeavons, Nature, soil, soil fertility, sustainability
Posted on November 22, 2018
by John Jeavons
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A thanksgiving tradition at dinner tables across the country is to ask each person “What are you thankful for?” It’s an interesting question, because it is so vitally linked with the other fundamental questions we all ask ourselves in one way or another: What…
Posted on November 20, 2018
by John Jeavons
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As harvest season draws to a close, it’s time to preserve the bounty. And what better way to do it than with the time-honored method of fermentation? With the earliest known examples of fermented foods appearing in the Fertile Crescent over 8,000 years ago,…
Category: books, farming/gardening, food security, GROW THE EARTH, interesting practices, My favorite things, nutrition, practical guides, Preserving food, sustainabilityTags: Fermentation, health, it's alive kombucha, keeping the harvest, kombucha, Mary Karlin, Mastering Fermentation
Posted on October 7, 2018
by John Jeavons
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With winter approaching, people in rural areas of the developed world are thinking about heating and cooking. And firewood. And stoves. Around the globe, in the developing world, it isn’t a seasonal thought – it’s a daily thought. “More than half of the world’s…
Category: cook stoves, cookstoves, coppicing, coppicing/pollarding, Ecology Action, GROW THE EARTH, interesting practices, practical guides, publications, sustainability, sustainable practices, unusual techniques, videosTags: Aprovecho, cookstoves, coppice, coppicing, Ecology Action, efficient, firewood, lorena, PCIA, rocket stove, sustainability, test results
Posted on October 2, 2018
by John Jeavons
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With summer drawing to a close, it’s time to start thinking about your winter garden, and that means cover crops! Here are some things to consider when planting your cover crops this year: Normally, a gardener or farmer planning a crop rotation (over time)…
Category: about crops, Biointensive, books, compost, compost crops, cover cropping, cover crops, crops, farming/gardening, grains, GROW THE EARTH, interesting practices, interplanting, my writing, practical guides, soil, sustainability, sustainable practicesTags: compost crops, cover crops, grains, GROW BIOINTENSIVE, interplanting, John Jeavons, legumes, Managing Cover Crops Profitably, nitrogen fixation, SARE, USDA
Posted on August 27, 2018
by John Jeavons
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John Keats famously called Autumn the “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” and I couldn’t agree with him more. Just when the summer seems like it will last forever, the turn of the seasons begins to make itself known in a subtle change of…
Category: about crops, books, farming/gardening, food security, fruits, GROW THE EARTH, harvesting, My favorite things, practical guides, Preserving food, vegetablesTags: d'agen plums, food storage, french plums, gretchen mead, Harvest, keeping the harvest, nancy chioffi, story books, Trees of Antiquity
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