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Posted on February 10, 2021
by John Jeavons
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Have I mentioned that I think small farms are the best farms? Well, I’m not alone, and I have the perfect book to prove it. According to Josh Volk, author of Compact Farms: 15 Proven Plans for Market Farms on 5 Acres or Less… Continue Reading “Small is Beautiful: Compact Farms”
Category: books, farming, GROW THE EARTH, market farming, practical guidesTags: books, compact farms, farming, featured, garden planning, gardening, how-to, josh volk, market farming, marketing, small scale agriculture, storey publishing
Posted on November 25, 2020
by John Jeavons
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With winter setting in and visions of lush spring gardens already dancing in our heads, here is something to intrigue and inspire you or your favorite gardener: a book/DVD combination on how to grow 100+ perennial vegetables. From asparagus, rhubarb, and ramps to taro,… Continue Reading “Exotic Additions: Perennial Vegetables”
Category: about crops, books, crops, farming, farming/gardening, GROW THE EARTH, interesting practices, perennial, perennial plants, practical guides, vegetablesTags: chelsea green, crops, eric toensmeier, farming, gardening, how-to, John Jeavons, perennial plants, plants
Posted on June 22, 2020
by John Jeavons
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🌻🌞Happy Summer to the Northern Hemisphere!🌞🌻 A new gardening season is here, and we want it to be an excellent one! The COVID-19 lockdown experience is a difficult for us all, but one of the silver linings that I can see is that so… Continue Reading “Growing Strong: What’s Wrong with My Plant? (and how do I fix it?)”
Category: books, farming/gardening, GROW THE EARTH, plant health guide, practical guidesTags: books, David Deardorff, farming, gardening, Kathryn Wadsworth, organic remedies, plant health, plants, visual guide, what's wrong with my plant
Posted on October 9, 2019
by John Jeavons
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In 1981, while Ecology Action was preparing to relocate its GROW BIOINTENSIVE farming program to from Palo Alto to Willits, CA in 1982, I received a letter from Lorenz Schaller, an amazing grainsman, noting that the Kusa Seed Society—”a voice for the precious edible… Continue Reading “The Book of Barley”
Category: about crops, about farming, barley, books, compost crops, crops, ethnobotany, farming, farming/gardening, grain, grains, GROW THE EARTH, history, history of agriculture, plants, practical guides, varietiesTags: 60/30/10, Barley, book of barley, farming, grain, history, kusa seed society, Lorenz Schaller, Tsampa
Posted on September 26, 2019
by John Jeavons
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According to Wikipedia, Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow… Continue Reading ““What I Stand On”: Sustainable Inspiration from Wendell Berry”
Category: books, farming, farming/gardening, GROW THE EARTH, history, inspiration, My favorite things, philosophy, soil, sustainabilityTags: farming, fertility, fertilizer, inspiration, Library of America, philosophy, soil, Soul of Soil, sustainability, sustainable, Wendell Berry, What I Stand On
Posted on August 28, 2019
by John Jeavons
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A healthy, productive agriculture relies on LIVING SOIL – truly the most important resource in the world. We live in a time of when healthy, living, farmable soil—as well as farming nutrients in organic and synthetic fertilizer form, fresh water, and energy—are all diminishing in… Continue Reading “Back to Our Roots: How Learning from Prehistoric Agriculture Can Help Grow the Future”
Category: about farming, books, ethnobotany, Europe, farming/gardening, GROW THE EARTH, historical use, history, history of agriculture, interesting practices, Native American, North America, philosophy, South America, sustainability, sustainable practicesTags: agriculture, animals, civilization, domestication, farming, plants, prehistoric, sustainability
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 June 26, 2018
by John Jeavons
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One of the most frustrating experiences you can have in the garden is to see a plant—or worse, and entire bed! —struggling with disease or pests. Conscientious farmers want to bring health to their gardens, but the chemical remedies provided on the shelves of… Continue Reading “Homeopathy for Plants”
Category: books, compost, container gardening, farming/gardening, GROW THE EARTH, homeopathy, homeopathy, homeopathy, indoor gardening, nutrition, plant health, plants, practical guides, unusual techniquesTags: farming, gardening, health, homeopathy for plants
Posted on June 22, 2018
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In this beautiful film produced by the talented Amy Melious, I have the honor of introducing four remarkable individuals making a difference in the world through their involvement in the Biointensive farming movement. Meet Mary Zellachild from California, Samuel and Perris Nderitu from Kenya,… Continue Reading “Grow Hope”
Category: Biointensive, Ecology Action, Get Involved!, GROW THE EARTH, videosTags: Amy Melious, Biointensive, Ecology Action, ECOPOL, farming, featured, G-BIACK, GROW BIOINTENSIVE, Juan Manuel Martinez Valdez, Mary Zellachild, Peris Nderitu, Samuel Nderitu, sustainable
Posted on June 19, 2018
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I’ll be giving a talk, “Food for the Future: NOW” in Fort Bragg, California on Thursday, June 21st! For FREE!! I’ll be discussing how sustainable, localized, small-scale agriculture can be productive, profitable, and can help solve some of our most serious environmental and social challenges – and how we can each participate in that solution. Location: 6:30-8:30 PM 490 North Harold Street. Come one, come all!
Category: Biointensive, Get Involved!, philosophy, presentations, sustainability, sustainable practicesTags: CA, farming, Fort Bragg, gardening, John Jeavons, local food, Presentation, small scale agriculture, sustainable
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