Michaelangelica
09-06-2009, 11:44 PM
permaculture certainly is the Flavor of the month everwhere
With braodband now 10 windows opening and not acrash in sight! Wonderful, although not as fast as I hoped.
Some busy people rely on personal chefs and personal shoppers. Attorney Catherine Turner has a personal farmer.
About once a week, Stefan Meyer bikes to Turner's south Minneapolis home to tend the crops he planted last month in her back yard. He pulls weeds, applies organic fertilizer, makes notations in a garden journal.
Turner can't wait for the day when she can snip her first fresh greens and toss a home-grown salad. "I'm super-excited," she said. Yes, she could garden without hired help. She's grown her own veggies before but never on this scale. "This garden has been planned and engineered for greatest yield," she said. "Next year, I'd like to do it myself. Hopefully, some of his [Meyer's] wide breadth of knowledge rubs off on me."
Many in the Twin Cities are producing food with the help of a pro this growing season. Interest in home-grown produce is up because people want to eat locally and organically, and they could save money in the long term.
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/ho ... tkEP7DhUsl (http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/homegarden/47109627.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD 3aPc:_Yyc:aUnciatkEP7DhUsl)
# Permaculture Design Course — 10 a.m. July 13-6 p.m. July 25. Two-week course for homeowners and professionals that focuses on regenerative, holistic land management principles. Course held at Tunitas Creek Ranch, Half Moon Bay. $1,350 includes camping and meals with discounts for early registration. www.conexions.org/permaculture/pdc (http://www.conexions.org/permaculture/pdc).
http://www.contracostatimes.com/homeand ... i_12511654 (http://www.contracostatimes.com/homeandgarden/ci_12511654)
Looks like i need to do a design course and move to San Francisco $1,350 for 3 days!
Like an eager vine, urban garden sharing spreads its roots
by Lynne Terry, The Oregonian
Thursday June 04, 2009, 7:30 PM
Alice Lasher's yard in North Portland bursts with promise for the palate. In a patch next to the porch, burly rhubarb splays over delicate leaves of ruby red lettuce. Tomato plants crawl up an arched metal trellis, and strawberry plants sprout out of crooks in a rock wall.
Everywhere you look -- leeks standing tall here, broccoli leaves swaying there and sage and thyme covering patches just about everywhere -- frames a picture of culinary satisfaction. But Lasher's vegetable garden doesn't stop there. It extends to a thicket in her neighbor's parking strip across the street and includes another spread in the neighbor's backyard.
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/i ... garde.html (http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/06/like_an_eager_vine_urban_garde.html)
video at site too.
Palestinian farmers use permaculture to challenge occupation
by via the Electronic Intifada
Thursday Jun 4th, 2009 7:24 AM
Thursday, June 4, 2009 :At five in the morning on 8 November 2000, Israeli troops invaded the Sustainable Development Centre in the West Bank village of Marda, tearing doors off their hinges and smashing windows. They destroyed seven years of work on the permaculture project. During the two-and-a-half hour rampage, the plant nursery, seed bank, agricultural equipment, computers and files were all wrecked.
The Centre had been established in 1993 to explore ways in which permaculture's principles of self-sufficiency could help Palestinian farmers whose lands were being confiscated and polluted by settlements like Ariel, which overshadows Marda village.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/0 ... 600417.php (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/04/18600417.php)
RISC garden raising the roof
By Linda Fort
June 04, 2009
http://m.gmgrd.co.uk/sbres/807.$plit/C_67_article_2051904_body_articleblock_0_bodyimage .jpg?04%2F06%2F2009%2007%3A49%3A38%3A469
A garden with a conscience in the heart of Reading lost out on a national award yesterday.
The Reading International Solidarity Centre (RISC) roof garden had been shortlisted in the new Ethical Garden category of the Observer Ethical Awards.
RISC planted an “edible forest” on the flat roof above its conference hall in 2001 when it was forced to replace the structure because it was leaking.
The RISC team worked with local permaculture garden designer Paul Barney to create a garden to reflect the charity’s mission to raise awareness of local-global connections and the need for everyone to reduce their “environmental footprint”.
What is RISC?
http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/lifestyle ... g_the_roof (http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/lifestyle/home_and_garden/s/2051904_risc_garden_raising_the_roof)
journalists can't resit punning can they?
Author Eric Toensmeier to Discuss Perennial Vegetables
Released 6/3/09
When we think of vegetables it calls to mind annually tilled fields and garden beds “put to bed” for winter after all the crops have been harvested. But there is an entire category of “perennial” vegetables – edible plants that don’t need to be planted and cultivated each year – that constitute a very under-appreciated opportunity for gardeners.
Eric Toensmeier, author of the book “Perennial Vegetables” will be presenting a talk and slide show on this important topic on Saturday, June 6th at 6:30 pm at Broadturn Farm in Cape Elizabeth sponsored by Portland Maine Permaculture.
“Beyond asparagus and rhubarb, there are dozens of edible perennial species that will grow well in Maine gardens such as sea kale, good king henry, Turkish rocket, ramps and others,” says local permaculture gardener Lisa Fernandes of Cape Elizabeth.
http://mainebusiness.mainetoday.com/new ... ml?id=7216 (http://mainebusiness.mainetoday.com/newsdirect/release.html?id=7216)
A good topic for a thread here?
Whether the problem is feeding a hungry world or simply increasing the productivity of a small backyard garden, the solution might well be biodynamic gardening.
Back in 1966 Alan Chadwick — an English actor, painter, pianist, and master horticulturist — was offered a chance to demonstrate the techniques of biodynami (French intensive) gardening on a barren four-acre clay hillside at the University of California's Santa Cruz campus. Chadwick tackled the little "desert" (land that was so inhospitable that few weeds even grew there) with hand tools, a love for the garden that he knew the plot could become, and incredible energy. Before long the once dead-looking slope was a veritable paradise of vegetables and flowers, and a beacon that attracted students and followers.
Since then, biodynamic gardening (often referred to as permaculture or "the method") has slowly gained a reputation among organic
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic- ... ening.aspx (http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/1980-01-01/Biodynamic-Gardening.aspx)
this is news to me :?: :!:
St. Petersburg College Partners with High Point Elementary to Develop Garden
http://sustainablespc.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/permaculture1.jpg?w=300&h=224
June 8, 2009
permacultureSustainability Club members at St. Petersburg College will partner with High Point Elementary School students, teachers and a gardening expert to develop a garden which will have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.
http://sustainablespc.wordpress.com/200 ... le-garden/ (http://sustainablespc.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/st-petersburg-college-partners-with-high-point-elementary-to-develop-an-edible-garden/)
I found this beautiful video on my friend's blog: The Humble Yogini. I am so grateful to Janaki for taking the time to share it. I was unaware of the whole institution of permaculture until I saw this video. Sure, the ideas and concepts behind it are not foreign, but the actual worldwide group and the collective beliefs on sustainability is extremely appealing to me. I think now, more then ever, the universe is SCREAMING at each of us to live a life more self sufficient, more organic, more environmentally conscious and simply put-SIMPLE.
http://dirtyfootprints-studio.blogspot. ... nings.html (http://dirtyfootprints-studio.blogspot.com/2009/06/permaculture-beginnings.html)
With braodband now 10 windows opening and not acrash in sight! Wonderful, although not as fast as I hoped.
Some busy people rely on personal chefs and personal shoppers. Attorney Catherine Turner has a personal farmer.
About once a week, Stefan Meyer bikes to Turner's south Minneapolis home to tend the crops he planted last month in her back yard. He pulls weeds, applies organic fertilizer, makes notations in a garden journal.
Turner can't wait for the day when she can snip her first fresh greens and toss a home-grown salad. "I'm super-excited," she said. Yes, she could garden without hired help. She's grown her own veggies before but never on this scale. "This garden has been planned and engineered for greatest yield," she said. "Next year, I'd like to do it myself. Hopefully, some of his [Meyer's] wide breadth of knowledge rubs off on me."
Many in the Twin Cities are producing food with the help of a pro this growing season. Interest in home-grown produce is up because people want to eat locally and organically, and they could save money in the long term.
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/ho ... tkEP7DhUsl (http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/homegarden/47109627.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD 3aPc:_Yyc:aUnciatkEP7DhUsl)
# Permaculture Design Course — 10 a.m. July 13-6 p.m. July 25. Two-week course for homeowners and professionals that focuses on regenerative, holistic land management principles. Course held at Tunitas Creek Ranch, Half Moon Bay. $1,350 includes camping and meals with discounts for early registration. www.conexions.org/permaculture/pdc (http://www.conexions.org/permaculture/pdc).
http://www.contracostatimes.com/homeand ... i_12511654 (http://www.contracostatimes.com/homeandgarden/ci_12511654)
Looks like i need to do a design course and move to San Francisco $1,350 for 3 days!
Like an eager vine, urban garden sharing spreads its roots
by Lynne Terry, The Oregonian
Thursday June 04, 2009, 7:30 PM
Alice Lasher's yard in North Portland bursts with promise for the palate. In a patch next to the porch, burly rhubarb splays over delicate leaves of ruby red lettuce. Tomato plants crawl up an arched metal trellis, and strawberry plants sprout out of crooks in a rock wall.
Everywhere you look -- leeks standing tall here, broccoli leaves swaying there and sage and thyme covering patches just about everywhere -- frames a picture of culinary satisfaction. But Lasher's vegetable garden doesn't stop there. It extends to a thicket in her neighbor's parking strip across the street and includes another spread in the neighbor's backyard.
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/i ... garde.html (http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/06/like_an_eager_vine_urban_garde.html)
video at site too.
Palestinian farmers use permaculture to challenge occupation
by via the Electronic Intifada
Thursday Jun 4th, 2009 7:24 AM
Thursday, June 4, 2009 :At five in the morning on 8 November 2000, Israeli troops invaded the Sustainable Development Centre in the West Bank village of Marda, tearing doors off their hinges and smashing windows. They destroyed seven years of work on the permaculture project. During the two-and-a-half hour rampage, the plant nursery, seed bank, agricultural equipment, computers and files were all wrecked.
The Centre had been established in 1993 to explore ways in which permaculture's principles of self-sufficiency could help Palestinian farmers whose lands were being confiscated and polluted by settlements like Ariel, which overshadows Marda village.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/0 ... 600417.php (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/04/18600417.php)
RISC garden raising the roof
By Linda Fort
June 04, 2009
http://m.gmgrd.co.uk/sbres/807.$plit/C_67_article_2051904_body_articleblock_0_bodyimage .jpg?04%2F06%2F2009%2007%3A49%3A38%3A469
A garden with a conscience in the heart of Reading lost out on a national award yesterday.
The Reading International Solidarity Centre (RISC) roof garden had been shortlisted in the new Ethical Garden category of the Observer Ethical Awards.
RISC planted an “edible forest” on the flat roof above its conference hall in 2001 when it was forced to replace the structure because it was leaking.
The RISC team worked with local permaculture garden designer Paul Barney to create a garden to reflect the charity’s mission to raise awareness of local-global connections and the need for everyone to reduce their “environmental footprint”.
What is RISC?
http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/lifestyle ... g_the_roof (http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/lifestyle/home_and_garden/s/2051904_risc_garden_raising_the_roof)
journalists can't resit punning can they?
Author Eric Toensmeier to Discuss Perennial Vegetables
Released 6/3/09
When we think of vegetables it calls to mind annually tilled fields and garden beds “put to bed” for winter after all the crops have been harvested. But there is an entire category of “perennial” vegetables – edible plants that don’t need to be planted and cultivated each year – that constitute a very under-appreciated opportunity for gardeners.
Eric Toensmeier, author of the book “Perennial Vegetables” will be presenting a talk and slide show on this important topic on Saturday, June 6th at 6:30 pm at Broadturn Farm in Cape Elizabeth sponsored by Portland Maine Permaculture.
“Beyond asparagus and rhubarb, there are dozens of edible perennial species that will grow well in Maine gardens such as sea kale, good king henry, Turkish rocket, ramps and others,” says local permaculture gardener Lisa Fernandes of Cape Elizabeth.
http://mainebusiness.mainetoday.com/new ... ml?id=7216 (http://mainebusiness.mainetoday.com/newsdirect/release.html?id=7216)
A good topic for a thread here?
Whether the problem is feeding a hungry world or simply increasing the productivity of a small backyard garden, the solution might well be biodynamic gardening.
Back in 1966 Alan Chadwick — an English actor, painter, pianist, and master horticulturist — was offered a chance to demonstrate the techniques of biodynami (French intensive) gardening on a barren four-acre clay hillside at the University of California's Santa Cruz campus. Chadwick tackled the little "desert" (land that was so inhospitable that few weeds even grew there) with hand tools, a love for the garden that he knew the plot could become, and incredible energy. Before long the once dead-looking slope was a veritable paradise of vegetables and flowers, and a beacon that attracted students and followers.
Since then, biodynamic gardening (often referred to as permaculture or "the method") has slowly gained a reputation among organic
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic- ... ening.aspx (http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/1980-01-01/Biodynamic-Gardening.aspx)
this is news to me :?: :!:
St. Petersburg College Partners with High Point Elementary to Develop Garden
http://sustainablespc.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/permaculture1.jpg?w=300&h=224
June 8, 2009
permacultureSustainability Club members at St. Petersburg College will partner with High Point Elementary School students, teachers and a gardening expert to develop a garden which will have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.
http://sustainablespc.wordpress.com/200 ... le-garden/ (http://sustainablespc.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/st-petersburg-college-partners-with-high-point-elementary-to-develop-an-edible-garden/)
I found this beautiful video on my friend's blog: The Humble Yogini. I am so grateful to Janaki for taking the time to share it. I was unaware of the whole institution of permaculture until I saw this video. Sure, the ideas and concepts behind it are not foreign, but the actual worldwide group and the collective beliefs on sustainability is extremely appealing to me. I think now, more then ever, the universe is SCREAMING at each of us to live a life more self sufficient, more organic, more environmentally conscious and simply put-SIMPLE.
http://dirtyfootprints-studio.blogspot. ... nings.html (http://dirtyfootprints-studio.blogspot.com/2009/06/permaculture-beginnings.html)