the plants and growing life (permaculture)

Permaculture. All about life involved with plants, maybe some supplaments, herbal extracts, gardening techniques, permaculture, companion planting, etc. Dec 10

This is the second of a series of posts that will cover the "Top 100" forest garden plants taken from volume 1 of the Edible Forest Gardens books. We started with the fungi and are now up to the prostrate herbs. There are a lot of useful ones so this is only the start of the list.

Top 100: Prostrate Herbs (Miner's Lettuce)

A massive, "unprecedented escape" of genetically-modified crops into the wild

"Because if the transgenic canola starts swapping genetic material with weed populations - something that is not unlikely..." Ok, so do we really need to review what a "species" is, or how reproduction works?

November 2009

Each week during our team meeting, we each have the chance to share news: local, national, and international.

http://thompsonowak.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html

http://www.ernieanderica.info/rocketstoves

rocketstoves - www.ErnieAndErica.info

Ianto Evans, Leslie Jackson, Ernie Wisner, Kirk Mobert, Paul Wheaton, and other friends are among the researchers developing efficient, clean-burning, affordable stoves for a variety of heating and cooking needs.

part II

Loved those links..found this information very very helpful A bushel of wheat makes about fifty 1-pound loaves of bread. Two ears of corn make enough cornmeal for a meal's worth of corn muffins.

http://www.permies.com/t/12551/permaculture/small-scale-home-eating-grain

very small scale ..for home eating..grain planting and protein production

HOME PAGE Sovereignty Library Health Library List Of New Titles Added Recently Health begins in the soil. Welcome To The Holistic Agriculture Library Albrecht, William A. "Loss Of Soil Organic Matter And Its Restoration" . Soils and Men: USDA Yearbook of Agriculture.

Agriculture Library Index

http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/01aglibwelcome.html

Siskiyou Permaculture Resources Group - Interview with Fukuoka

by Jim Bones (1995) The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. - Masanobu Fukuoka In October of 1994, I traveled to Japan with a team working on a book about the leading methods of sustainable agriculture found around the world.

While we started off experimenting with annual and ground cover species seed balls, to date I’ve been most impressed by how useful they’ve proved to help us establish trees in unlikely areas.

Seed Balls: how to grow trees without really trying

www.rivendellvillage.org/Natural-Way-Of-Farming-Masanobu-Fukuoka-Green-Philosophy.pdf

http://www.inthegardenonline.com/picks_10vegforshadeC21.htm

In the Garden Online - Colleen's Picks - Ten Vegetables You Can Grow in Shade

It's a common misconception that the only site to grow vegetables in s one that's in full sun. For some vegetables, such as tomatoes, peppers, and squash, this is entirely true. But those of us who have shade are not doomed to a life without homegrown produce. Basically, a good rule to remember is that if you grow a plant for the fruit or the root, it needs full sun. If you grow it for the leaves, stems, or buds, shade is just fine. Keep in mind, no vegetable will grow in full shade.

Best Shade-Tolerant Vegetables - Organic Gardening

Even in shady conditions, you can bask in great garden harvests if you choose the right crops and make a few easy adjustments.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/shade-tolerant-vegetables-zm0z11zsto.aspx#axzz2P4g48P00

whitetail dateline: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Whitetail deer prefer to eat the following woody and herbaceous plants. Plants especially preferred by deer: Indian Hawthorn, Hibiscus, Pansy, Phlox, Poison Ivy and Poison Sumac.

What do Deer Eat?

Carrot roots in various shades from light to dark Root vegetables are plant roots used as vegetables .

List of root vegetables

Yucca

Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae , subfamily Agavoideae . [ 2 ] Its 40-50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen , tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers . They are native to the hot and dry ( arid ) parts of North America , Central America , South America , and the Caribbean . Early reports of the species were confused with the cassava ( Manihot esculenta ). [ 3 ] Consequently, Linnaeus mistakenly derived the generic name from the Carib word for the latter, yuca (spelt with a single "c"). [ 4 ] It is also colloquially known in the Midwest United States as "ghosts in the graveyard", as it is commonly found growing in rural graveyards and when in bloom the flowers appear as floating apparitions.