Soil Food Web In The Permaculture Garden
What is a soil food web and why is it important? Meet the creatures that help your garden grow.
What Do Weeds Indicate About Your Soil?
By Heather Jo Flores What Weeds Indicate About the Condition of Your Soil “Weeds are weeds only from our human egotistical point of view, because they grow where we do not want them. In nature, however, they play an important and interesting role. They resist conditions that cultivated plants cannot resist, such as drought, acid soil, lack of humus, mineral deficiencies, as well as a one-sidedness of minerals, etc. They are witness of man’s failure to master the soil, and they grow abundantly wherever man has ‘missed the train’ — they only indicate our errors and nature’s corrections. Weeds want to tell a…
How To Build Organic Garden Soil
Learn from my example how to build organic garden soil.
In-Situ Composting In Your Garden
In-Situ composting. Why you need it & how to do it right.
Mulch Much? The Benefits Of Mulching
By Heather Jo Flores It’s always a good day for mulching your garden! Mulch builds humus. The word “human” comes from the same roots as humus, meaning earth, and in fact our bodies do contain many of the same elements and microorganisms as fertile organic soil. Soil health is linked to our own health, and soil communities bear remarkable resemblance to the flora and fauna in our own guts. A diverse, thriving intestinal community keeps us humans healthy, and the same goes for the soil ecosystem. The Benefits of Mulch A layer of mulch, whether up around perennials and fruit trees or…
A beginner’s guide to worm composting
Opening A Heartfelt Dialogue With Life - A Film Review Of Into The Soil
A timely film about how we share food, care for our land and value the lives of everyone around us.
Mulch Much? The Benefits of Mulch
Mulch builds humus. The word human comes from the same roots as humus, meaning earth, and in fact our bodies do contain many of the same elements and microorganisms as fertile organic soil. Soil health is linked to our own health, and soil communities bear remarkable resemblance to the flora and fauna in our own guts.
Episode 1213: The Soil Food Web with Jeff Lowenfels | The Permaculture Podcast
https://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Lowenfels.mp3Click here to download the episode. | Open Player in New Window https://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/Lowenfels.mp3Click here to download the episode. | Open Player in New WindowMy guest is Jeff Lowenfels, co-author, along with Wayne Lewis, of Teaming With Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web, which recently released a revised edition.
How to build and maintain living soil that will grow abundant gardens.
Ruth Stout - Deep Mulch Gardening Experiment - Part 1
rying another experiment in the garden this year with the Ruth Stout Gardening method. This will be our 3rd gardening method implemented on farm. Most of ou...
A Permaculture Guide to Choosing Cover Crops - Toby Hemenway
One of my constant refrains is “Permaculture is a decision making tool for arriving at regenerative solutions.” Here I’m going to show how permaculture can help create strategies for deciding what cover crops to use. In permaculture, we’re always looking for potent leverage points, and soil-building is a big one. If we create fertile, water-absorbing, […]
Caring for Earth, Ourselves, and Each Other.
Take a look at the life beneath the soil in this classic film from Japan
How to Make Aerated Compost Tea | MOTHER EARTH NEWS
Rehabilitate soil with aerated compost tea. Containing thousands of useful microorganisms, this method is sure to bring life to barren patches of dirt.
Video 4 of 4: Soils Module
Ruth Stouts System | MOTHER EARTH NEWS
Learn how to use mulch to cut down on weeding and heavy labor in your garden by using the Ruth Stout gardening method.
Carbon Farming: The Permaculture Solution to Climate Change
How can the world sequester carbon quickly and progress towards stabilising our global climate? Author of The Carbon Farming Solution and permaculture expert, Eric Toensmeier, will be at a special event in London answering questions about this most important work of our time.
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