Tagged with Horticulture

Only in recent years has food production been pushed out beyond the city boundaries. Today's challenge is to bring food back into our cities, "past forward" to a 21st century model that joins new technologies with the old reality that food has to grow somewhere -- ​the closer, the fresher. (more)

The way we produce food nowadays will be replaced by other ways that don't depend on mass infusions of nonrenewable resources. What makes it difficult for many people to factor them into a sense of the future is that the alternative methods don't look like industrial agriculture at all. 

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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)

That Biodynamic horticulture invokes cosmic forces should come as no surprise, especially when it comes to a soul-enriching Dionysian delight that remains one of the most refined and spiritually symbolic products on the planet. (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)