Gardener's Supply Company | Garden Supplies, Gardening Tools and Gardening Tips for Home Gardeners. History of Agriculture: Human Evolution & Diet, Nutrition, Crops, Sustainable Farming. 'The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race' by Jared Diamond. On Evolution, Diet & Agriculture. 'Recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered. With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism,that curse our existence. Crops and Nutrition .. While farmers concentrate on high-carbohydrate crops like rice and potatoes, the mix of wild plants and animals in the diets of surviving hunter-gatherers provides more protein and a better balance of other nutrients.
In one study, the Bushmen's average daily food intake (during a month when food was plentiful) was 2,140 calories and ninety-three grams of protein, considerably greater than the recommended daily allowance for people of their size. Agriculture Bad for Health .. Farming, Sedentary Lifestyle & Family .. .. .. Email this Page to a Friend! Help Humanity. How To Make TP Roll Seed Pots.
Guys! Spring is almost here! In Portland I dare say it’s even come early, bringing the daffodils springing from every sidewalk crack and kissing the tree tops in blush pink buds. It’s intoxicating! And it also means we’re coming up quick on planting season. Even if you’re not seeing it out your own front window, I assure you it’s coming . . . and soon! Last year I offered a green alternative to plastic seed pots, with a recycled newspaper version.
And once again, it’s just so easy. Begin with your TP roll. Cut! It’ll look like this. Fold down the tabs to make a nice flat bottom. When you’re ready to transplant, just unfold the bottom tabs and then cut the cardboard away. Don’t you love how the green DIY method is also always the most efficient, most practical method? Homegrown Revolution (Award winning short-film 2009)- The Urban Homestead. Check us out at: Dervaes Family on Facebook: Urban Homestead on Facebook: more on the film: purchase a copy for public screening: film features: Jules Dervaes, Justin Dervaes, Anais Dervaes and Jordanne Dervaes Homegrown Revolution is a short introduction to the homegrown project that has been called a new revolution in urban sustainability. In the midst of a dense city setting in downtown Pasadena, radical change is taking root. For over twenty years, the Dervaes family have transformed their home into an urban homestead and model for sustainable agriculture and city living.
Through the creation of the "Urban Homestead" the Dervaes family shows that change is possible -- one step at a time. Made in-house on computers powered by solar/green sources. Robert T. 1 ratings. Vegetable Spacing Guide". Plants For A Future : 7000 Edible, Medicinal & Useful Plants. Recommended this month Permaculture News: Permaculture International Research Network (PIRN) and Free Research Handbook Research is one of the five key areas of the UK Permaculture Association's work. All aspects of the Association's research share two key aims; building a strong evidence base for permaculture and improving permaculture practice. Recently the Permaculture International Research Network (PIRN) has was launched. You can download the free Research Handbook here. New Book ** Plantes Comestibles: Le guide pour vous inspirer a choisir et cultiver des plantes comestibles hors du commun [Paperback] Edible Plants: French Translation.
More >> Plants For A Future: 20 years on The trustees of PFAF, in recognition of the work of the Ferns, and for information about what they achieved, commissioned a detailed mapping and ecological Survey of The Field. The Plants for a Future Concept more. 15 houseplants for improving indoor air quality.
Organic Gardening Tips. One Community Sustainable Food Production Infrastructure. One Community’s food infrastructure is just one component of our For The Highest Good of All approach to open source project-launch blueprinting strategy for self-replicating and self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Just as we will be showcasing a diversity of sustainable housing modes and alternative energy infrastructure, so too will we showcase a diversity of food production methodologies ranging from earth-regenerative permaculture farming to greenhouses to aquaponics farms. Even with traditional methods one person working full-time on food production can produce enough food to feed 30; with aquaponics that same person can produce enough food to feed 300. Our goal is to start building temporary greenhouses within the first week to supply food until our aquaponics farms and traditional growing methods are producing.
Initially One Community will build three different sustainable food production models. 7 Foods Even Food Safety Experts Won’t Eat. Gardening 101+ | Wild About Gardening. Vegetable Spacing Guide" Farmedhere.com. EarthBox. Click & Grow Smartpots. Growing Industrial Hemp in Ontario. Table of Contents Introduction Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) is one of the oldest cultivated plants in the world. For centuries, its fibres have been used to make ropes, sails and clothing.
The species was banned in North America in the 1930s because its leaves and flowers contain a hallucinogenic drug known as delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). It was banned internationally in 1961 under the United Nations' Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. In 1998, Canada created Industrial Hemp Regulations under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Under the Regulations, industrial hemp seeds must be of a variety listed in Health Canada's List of Approved Cultivars.
Anyone found in possession of hemp plant parts - other than the stalk and non-viable grain, without the appropriate licence - is in possession of a controlled substance and may be charged under the Act. Industrial hemp may only be grown under licence from Health Canada. Development of the Industry Description Varieties Fertility. Best Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs to Grow for Beginners.
Whether you’re an old hand at gardening but have never grown edible plants, or you’re new to gardening all together, here is a list of plants that are well suited to people who are considering growing something they can eat for the first time. Photo by GNIKRJ I’ve linked to growing information from Organic Gardening magazine to help you get your container farming off to a good start.
Going organic is really important when it comes to plants you are going to eat because eating chemicals (whether in the form of fertilizers or pesticides) is not very appetizing. Related Posts: The Basics Of Starting Plants From Seeds And Transplanting Them » Sustainable Living World. Welcome to Allotment Growing: Garden as if your life depended on it, because it does. Spring has sprung — at least south of the northern tier of states where snow still has a ban on it — and the grass has ‘riz. And so has the price of most foods, which is particularly devastating just now when so many Americans are unemployed, underemployed, retired or retiring, on declining or fixed incomes and are having to choose between paying their mortgages, credit card bills, car payments, and medical and utility bills and eating enough and healthily. Many are eating more fast food, prepared foods, junk food — all of which are also becoming more expensive — or less food. In some American towns, and not just impoverished backwaters, as many as 30 percent of residents can’t afford to feed themselves and their families sufficiently, let alone nutritiously.
Here in the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina where I live it’s 25 percent. Across the country one out of six of the elderly suffers from malnutrition and hunger. What’s for Supper Down the Road? Why Is Gardening So Important Now? My Tiny Plot. Newspaper_pot. Agriculture Library Index. Backyard_farm.jpg (900×2793) Healthy food and garden education. 1 MILLION pounds of Food on 3 acres. 10,000 fish 500 yards compost. Natural selection. POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jan 18, 2011 Farmer Samson Delos Reyes walks through rows of kalo at David Wong's Waianae farm. Wong is using a system called natural farming developed in South Korea that has his kalo towering overhead and producing huge basil bushes.
Farmer Samson Delos Reyes walks among kalo patches at S&J Farms of Waianae, which uses a natural farming method developed by South Korean farmer Han Kyu Cho. Pigs are thriving in a pig farm in Kurtistown on the Big Island that employs the same farming principles. Instead of using pesticides, bug baits consisting of beer in plastic bottles are hung along rows of Thai basil.
Landowner David Wong, below, stands next to towering kalo and huge basil bushes. Farmer Samson Delos Reyes reached into his bluejeans pocket to grab a phone call from a buyer and ended up smiling but shaking his head. The caller wanted to triple her order of his pungent Thai basil, to 60 from 20 cases a week, but S&J Farms of Waianae is already booked solid. Mulching your Flower Beds. Photo: shutterstock.com Laying mulch before the winter gives your soil a head start for the next growing season. It also protects delicate plants, adding the equivalent of a whole zone level to those that might not be hardy enough for the area. Kristin Schleiter, the acting Director of Outdoor Gardens at the New York Botanical Garden, shares some tips to make the most of mulch. Types of Mulch for Flower Beds When choosing the type of mulch you want to lay in your garden, avoid mulch made of raw wood. Wood mulch robs the soil of the nitrogen that plants require. The New York Botanical Garden prefers leaf mold and pine bark mulches.
How to Make Leaf Mold Unfortunately, if you don’t have leaf mold on hand, the process takes too long to prepare for this season. Pile up the leaves you’ve raked from your lawn in a little-used corner of the yard.To speed up the process, run the lawn mower over the pile to break it up and keep the area wet.Let the microbes do their thing! 5 Secrets to a ‘No-work’ Garden. It took over 20 years of gardening to realize that I didn’t have to work so hard to achieve a fruitful harvest. As the limitless energy of my youth gradually gave way to the physical realities of mid-life, the slow accretion of experience eventually led to an awareness that less work can result in greater crop yields.
Inspired in part by Masanobu Fukuoka’s book, One Straw Revolution, my family experimented with gardening methods which could increase yields with less effort. Fukuoka spent over three decades perfecting his so-called “do-nothing” technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort. Here are the strategies we used which enabled us to greatly increase our garden yield, while requiring less time and less work. 1. Use the ‘no-till’ method of gardening With ‘no-till’ gardening, weeding is largely eliminated. 2. Once mulch is in place, it doesn’t need to be disturbed. 3. 4. Forums - My Garden. Hobby Farms, Livestock & Pets, Crops & Gardening, Home & Barn. How 1 MILLION Pounds Of Organic Food Can Be Produced On 3 Acres. By Andy Whiteley Co-Founder of Wake Up World The quality and accessibility of our food supply is a mounting issue today.
With GMOs, chemical pesticides and low-nutrition processed foods now commonplace in the mainstream supply, taking control of your own food supply is one of the smartest things you can do – for your health and for your hip pocket. So, with limited space, how can we create an independent food supply? I recently came across this amazing video of a man, urban farmer Will Allen, who has figured out a self-sustaining system that can grow 1 million pounds of food every year, on just 3 acres of land, using the symbiotic cultivation of plants and aquatic animals in a re-circulating system.
If you’re interested in starting your own Aquaponics system in your home, be sure to check out our exclusive special offer to Wake Up World readers at the bottom of this page. Grow 1 Million Pounds of Food on 3 Acres * Maintaining 3 acres of land in green houses * Producing 10,000 fish Growing Power.