Xochiquetzal Salazar is the sustainability coordinator for the campus gardens at the University of Massachusetts. Here she introduces us to the concept of permaculture. Learn more about the key ideas of sustainability, multiple function, and regeneration. USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender. Source
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You’ll Never Throw Away Coffee Grounds After Watching This
Here are some of the clever ways to use coffee grounds around the home and garden. You’ll never throw away coffee grounds after watching this! Whether you enjoy drinking coffee in the morning or have a secret addiction to lattes, if you clicked on this video, you’ve likely got some used coffee grounds sitting around…
How to Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg – Freegle Training Day
Interested in learning how to grow your own fruit and veg? Sign up for the next one-day training course run by Penrith & Eden District Freegle. Various dates planned in 2015 in Eden District, Cumbria. Register your interest to be the first to hear about future dates: www.penrithact.org.uk/contact Novice veg growers from the Eden area…
How to Grow Microgreens from Start to Finish (COMPLETE GUIDE)
This is the most comprehensive guide on how to grow microgreens I have ever produced. Follow along as I take you from seed selection and planting ALL the way through the growing process, including some tips on how to harvest, store, and use microgreens in your kitchen. IN THIS VIDEO → Full Article: https://growepic.co/4aEBI7r →…
Permaculture Zones
A permaculture site is divided into zones. Understanding the five zones allows for a design that considers the most effective placement of components and how they relate to each other. Each zone has a different requirement for maintenance and function. Zones 1 and 2, or areas needing the most attention, are placed closer to the…
3 Easy Ways to Compost: A Beginner’s Guide | One Small Step | NowThis
Have Stay at Home orders made it difficult for you to compost? In this One Small Step, Lucy explores 3 ways to compost at home. » Subscribe to NowThis Future: https://go.nowth.is/Future_Subscribe » Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox: https://go.nowth.is/KnowThis Because of budget…
Grow Food, Grow Dunoon
The Grow Food, Grow Dunoon project aims to create a market garden to grow organic vegetables, fruits, flowers and herbs, in conjunction with Kirn Primary School and their pupils. Source
Grow your own food
There are over 4000 community garden plots, on 47 acres, throughout Dane County. Tamarack Trails is one of many Madison neighborhoods with its own community garden. 49 spots are given to local residents, but if any left, non-residents can also apply. 13 plots even have raised beds! Tamarack Trails is a very desirable neighborhood of…
Growing Corn, From Seed to Harvest
I did it. I’m a corn daddy now. Lemme know your favorite way to prep corn down in the comments. Growing corn is super satisfying, it makes you feel like you’re actually out there farming instead of gardening. The 7’+ tall stalks blowing in the wind, the enjoyment of shucking an ear and eating it…
3 composts you could buy
1 Made from garden wastes at high temperatures up to 80C 176F. 2 Mushroom compost from specialist compost makers, it’s ‘spent for mushrooms’ and excellent for soil. 3 Animal manure, often comes with bedding of variable origin, I show you chipped wood. I pay from £40 to £60 per tonne delivered in a two tonne…