Tagged with Gardens

Agriculture started about ten thousand years ago. That's a long time for observations to accumulate and techniques to develop. It might be claimed that a healthy agriculture is the basis of a healthy culture and healthy culture implies a healthy agriculture. (more)

Jackie told me about the teas she grew, about her homemade jams and boysenberry wines, about the shiitakes she'd planted on a pile of logs, about the rainwater she harvested. She pointedly described permaculture as "the things your grandparents knew and your parents forgot." (more)

Few things are more frustrating than tending vegetable plants only to see them mowed down overnight by a marauding band of insects. Here's what you can do. (more)