How a backyard garden makes and uses its’ own compost in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn! Filled with both fruits and flowers, this pure organic garden displays beautiful artifacts and is dressed with draping green ivy. Urban Gardener is a video series dedicated to exploring some of the most interesting city green spaces and meeting some of…
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Planning the PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST – Land STEWARDSHIP & Getting past the FLOODING – Before/After
In this week’s video, PART 4 of our series on CREATING A PERMACULTURE PARADISE & FOOD FOREST, we will be talking about how we got past the major flooding challenges we had close to the house and we are also going to start to talk about some of the Forest Stewardship practices that we undertook…
Will compostable packaging break down in your home compost bin?
Compostable packaging seems like a great option for making your everyday life a little more environmentally friendly. But will it all break down if you put it in your compost bin at home? Subscribe to 1News: http://bit.ly/1NEWSSubscribe | Join the Fair Go team as they stand up for the underdogs and consumer rights. WATCH MONDAY…
Designing the Perfect Permaculture Garden: Observe & Interact for Success!
Welcome to “Designing the Perfect Permaculture Garden: Observe & Interact for Success!” Join us as we explore one of the core principles of permaculture—observing and interacting with your environment to create a sustainable and thriving garden. In this video, we’ll guide you through the steps of understanding how natural elements like sunlight, wind, and water…
Discover the problems when you plant in fresh manure rather than compost
A trial, NOT a recommendation, of growing in fresh horse manure with straw and a bit of hay, from the neighbour’s heap. I shall add the final results here in November 2017 with details of harvests, including a comparison with the kohlrabi planted into composted manure in the nearby heap. Currently they are four times…
Incorporating Native Plants | Let’s Grow Stuff
A safe habitat is one of the most important basic need for insects. In this new episode of PBS Wisconsin’s Let’s Grow Stuff, we learn how native plants provide some of the best habitat and food for pollinators and songbirds. Because they evolved in our region, they’re well-adapted to grow here so are more hardy…
Ohio University’s Compost Facility
Ohio University is home to one of the largest in-vessel composting operations at any college or university in the nation. The OHIO Compost Facility allows the university to divert its food waste from greenhouse gas-producing landfills and instead to create a nutrient rich soil amendment to enhance our campus landscape beds and intramural fields. Source
City Park Reintroduces Rare Regal Fritillary Butterfly
Regal fritillary butterflies are introduced at the Crow-Hassan Park Reserve in Hennepin County. Like many grassland insects, the majestic prairie butterfly’s population has plunged. #PrairieSportsman #PioneerPBS #Minnesota Prairie Sportsman celebrates our love of the outdoors to hunt, fish and recreate, and promotes environmental stewardship. Prairie Sportsman’s team includes: Dylan Curfman, producer/editor/videographer Cindy Dorn, writer/producer Bret…
Community Compost Temperature Check
With the right balance of greens, browns, water, and oxygen our community compost pile has reached temperatures above 125 degrees Fahrenheit. This means that the pile is actively decomposing which should produce usable compost in a couple months. Source
Wild Rice check up
This rice has been active since planted as seed late fall 2013. Source