We’re heading for a world population of 10 billion people — but what will we all eat? Lisa Dyson rediscovered an idea developed by NASA in the 1960s for deep-space travel, and it could be the key to reinventing how we grow food. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances…
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Grow Your Own Groceries |Marjory Wildcraft |Central Texas Gardener
Marjory Wildcraft from The Grow Network explains how to grow half your food in less than an hour a day! Host: Tom Spencer. Source
Man Quits Job in Finance to Grow Food and Develop Permaculture Food Forest | From Finance to Farmer
Andrew Martin once worked in the finance industry in Australia, but after learning about the true state of the world as peak oil and climate change begin to take effect, he knew he had to leave that unsustainable lifestyle behind and do something useful to help heal the earth and to be more resilient in…
10 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting a New Vegetable Garden
See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Growing a garden is equal parts challenging, rewarding, mystifying and uplifting. There’s a lot to learn, but we’re here to help. Don’t make the same mistakes we did! In this short video we’ll share our top 10 tips to help you grow a successful garden. If you love growing…
She Grows 80% Of Her Produce For a Family of 5 | Suburban Garden Tour
Follow Kris’ garden: https://www.instagram.com/growalilgarden/ We crashed the home garden of one of our EG team members – Kris. She was our original assistant, and has now moved to the Head of Customer Experience role here at Epic Gardening…but more importantly than that, she has a VIBRANT home garden that produces 80% of the produce she…
Permaculture Design for Slope
CORRECTION: There is an error in this diagram. The 30% slope section is drawn too gently. That section should be drawn slightly steeper then the 25% slope section, but it is instead drawn more gently than that section. The corrected drawing would show that the slope that Mollison recommends for permanent forest is steeper than…
Is Using Compost and Compost Tea Really Safe?
This Q&A is pulled from a collection of questions posed to me by students of my Online Permaculture Design course (PDC). Learn more with my free four-part Masterclass series, here: https://www.discoverpermaculture.com/a/12454/e3i2ci3L Question: After researching the safety of compost tea, food cultivation, and food safety, in general, I read a study from the UCONN college of…
How Do We Grow Food Anywhere, Without Soil? | Qingwu Meng | TEDxUniversityofDelaware
Plants don’t need soil to grow; they need water and nutrients that we can provide directly. In the pandemic era, we can all take home gardening to the next level and grow vegetables easily with DIY hydroponic setups. Through a series of photos taken during the pandemic, Dr. Qingwu Meng breaks down how to grow…