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11th February 2021 19:57
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Ingenious ways to grow food - all around the world
There are people from all around the world getting very creative about how they grow their food and so I invite you to share what you have discovered that is simple, as natural as possible, organic...and with a view to using as little technology as possible, in the ways of growing food.
The benefits of vetiver grass
Before we planted vetiver, I didn't really understand it.
Soil erosion and landslides have always been a problem for the East Balinese because of their mountainous terrain and heavy rainfall. We learn in this great little "how to video", how vetiver changed the way this community have been able to grow food on previously unworkable land, and how they were able to use this remarkable grass in many other different ways throughout the community.
The Vetiver System and Indonesia's East Bali Poverty Project
Meanwhile in Western Ethiopia...
Ano Farm (Western Ethiopia) has used the Vetiver System to reduce erosion and improve groundwater recharge. The results are higher crop yields and increased groundwater and regenerated water flow from springs.
Vetiver System (Vetiver Grass): Ground Water Recharge
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11th February 2021 20:11
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Making more out of less. Entire local towns could be fed with this ingenious design by Russ Finch.
Youtube introduction by Kirsten Dirksen.
Winter temperatures in Alliance, Nebraska can drop to -20°F (the record low is -40°F/C), but retired mailman Russ Finch grows oranges in his backyard greenhouse without paying for heat. Instead, he draws on the earth's stable temperature (around 52 degrees in his region) to grow warm weather produce- citrus, figs, pomegranates - in the snow.
Finch first discovered geothermal heating in 1979 when he and his wife built it into their 4400-square-foot dream home to cut energy costs. Eighteen years later they decided to add a 16'x80' greenhouse in the backyard. The greenhouse resembles a pit greenhouse (walipini) in that the floor is dug down 4 feet below the surface and the roof is slanted to catch the southern sun.
To avoid using heaters for the cold Nebraska winter nights, Finch relies on the warm underground air fed into the greenhouse via plastic tubing under the yard and one fan.
Finch sells a "Citrus in the Snow" report detailing his work with his "geo-air" greenhouses and says anyone can build a market-producing greenhouse for about $25,000 or "less than the cost of a heat system on a traditional greenhouse".
Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow
Greenhouseinthesnow.com
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11th February 2021 20:46
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I first shared about Geoff Lawtons remarkable work with greening the desert here
In this video, Geoff shows what can happen in just one year using permaculture to grow food.
Geoff Leads a Teaching Tour of the Greening the Desert Site
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11th February 2021 21:03
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From poverty to permaculture in India.
Bill Mollison, the father of permaculture works with Aranya farm to turn a rocky barren wasteland into a lush food forest. As the passionate farmer of Aranya farm proclaimed, Any land can be transformed within 2-3 years
India's Water Revolution #4: Permaculture for Wastelands at Aranya Farm
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11th February 2021 22:25
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Gardens build community. period
plants change people
This is how Ron Finlay, guerilla gardener feels about growing food. He lives in a place that has been zoned as a food desert. A food desert has been defined by the USDA as an area where there is not access to fresh, readily available, healthy food.
He has taken his inspirations and actioned them into reality by taking asphalt and dead grass in empty lots and sidewalks throughout his community in Los Angeles and transforming them into productive edible gardens. He constructed his own garden so that he could feed people in his community. I love the spirit of this guy.
Ron Finley: Food Forest
Ron Finley: An unlikely farm feeds a community
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12th February 2021 03:30
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This couple grow much of their food on their man-made island, ten miles north of Tofino, British Columbia, off the west coast of Vancouver Island. Starting @ 2.12 - 2.54 [13 min video]
Nature has been my guide
27 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Self-Built Island Homestead
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12th February 2021 03:39
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This no-till garden method using cardboard has been bountiful for Ricky Baruc, who farms in Orange, Massachusetts. He has used this method for 20 years. Whilst he didn't invent this method of no-till gardening (as the title suggests), he has lots of valuable insights to share regarding the art of cardboard no-till gardening.
Cardboard Method Inventor Tells All: No-Till Gardening Guide to Worm Sex and Good Food
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12th February 2021 04:17
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JADAM or Korean natural farming, offers a completely different perspective on how to farm organically, cheaply and effectively. Master Cho shows farmers and gardening enthusiasts how to make bulk natural pesticides, root promoting fertilisers and soil bacteria for just dollars. Everything for the english speaker is in subtitles.
JADAM Lecture Part 1. Agriculture Revolution! Ultra-Low-Cost Organic Farming (30 videos)
Part 2
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The instructional e-book for quantities and ingredients
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12th February 2021 04:31
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Permaculture for Vegans
Permaculture News in Australia provides a great lengthy article on all the ins and outs...
In Phoenix Arizona...Jake, a vegan athlete grows an edible food forest in a desert climate using woodchips! (no manure). For those who are wondering what he is referring to regarding the New Zealand spinach, it is also called Warrigal greens. Warning, they grow like weeds!
INCREDIBLE 200+ FRUIT TREE & URBAN GARDEN IN PHOENIX ARIZONA
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12th February 2021 04:59
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Jim is a gardener in Florida who makes a living from the produce he grows in his front yard. He makes $1000 a week, selling to a tight circle. He says that people often make the mistake of expanding. Instead, he sells to his local markets novel things like vegetable bouquets. The secret to prolific growing according to Jim is to thin out the plants, to make sure that the ground is never empty, to make sure that there is diversity in what is grown, to plant what he enjoys eating, to mulch and compost well and to use the well water (even if it is salty).
$1000 A Week: Front-Yard Market Farming + Bicycle Delivery (w/ Jim Kovaleski)
Here he is again in Maine. Jim has not watered his garden in Maine for 7 years. The secret he says is to not break the ground and use grass to heavily mulch. He says, there is room for 10 more Jims.
NO WATER NEEDED to Grow Veggies? Just Add Grass.
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12th February 2021 07:30
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