Gardening Allotment UK join us doing Allotment Gardening Container Gardening plus more For me growing is a passion there is nothing more satisfying than a year round supply of home grown fruit and vegetables I have lots of useful hints and tips to help others sow & grow fresh fruit and vegetables’ all year long…
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Preventing FLOODING with SWALES | Permaculture homesteading
Permaculture water systems really work – and here’s the proof! These small swales and retention ponds saved our barn from flooding during a Pacific Northwest downpour! Check it out! About swales: swales are a popular way to manage water in permaculture design systems. They are basically shallow ditches that direct water and allow for catchment…
10 Crazy Things You Can Compost
Go beyond garden waste and kitchen scraps in your compost and consider some odd, even crazy, things you can compost. There are many things around the house that are usually thrown away, but that can be composted. Just about everything organic can find a spot in your compost pile. (Video #112) If you want to…
Saving Seeds, Sustaining Our Communities
Kellee Matsushita-Tseng, UCSC Farm Garden assistant manager, and Adria Vidales of the Demeter Seed Library discuss seed saving as an act of decolonization and a tool for sustaining our communities. They share some political education around the importance of seed saving with case studies of food sovereignty and community seed saving around the world, and…
Back to the Core: A Compost Story
Follow the journey of an apple core as it travels through the composting process! Learn how compost is doing the most by keeping unnecessary waste out of the landfill, reducing landfill gas emissions, returning carbon to the soil, and helping farms grow healthy food and save water. For more information, visit Sustainability.Recology.com Source
Living the Self-Sufficiency Dream on a Tiny Homestead | Organic & Permaculture Abundance
When people wonder what can be done on an acre or less, Liz Zorab from Byther Farm has created a perfect working example to prove how much food can be produced on a small homestead. She is also a perfect working example of what ‘Living the Dream’ is – I mean imagine not buying veg…
Constructing a Horse Carcass Compost Pile
Horse carcass composting can serve as a feasible alternative to rendering, burial, and cremation when managing mortalities on horse farms. In this video, we demonstrate how to properly construct a horse carcass compost pile. This video is the first of a four part series on composting horse carcasses. For more information on horse carcass composting…
Emotional Permaculture: Design Your Inner Landscape
Enroll in the course at www.freepermaculture.com/emotionalpermaculture #permaculturewomen #womenwriters #heroinesjourney #ecofeminism #heatherjoflores #foodnotlawns #growfoodnotlawns #permaculture #growyourown #freepermaculture #permaculturedesign Video transcript: Hello, I’m Heather Jo Flores. Welcome to the free emotional permaculture workshop that I’ve put together. I’m doing this partially as a service to the community because I think it’s a really important topic. And I…
BEST Use For Grass Clippings EVERYWHERE In The Garden! MORE Benefits & Easier Than Composting It!
You may think that composting your grass clippings from your lawn (along with the weeds) is the best thing for your garden. But in this video, I’ll show you all the problems with composting fresh grass and that there is a better way! We will mulch with the grass instead and spread it everywhere in…
The Incredible Benefits of Agroforestry on Small Farms | Introduction to Agroforestry
In this video, we visit James from@TapoNothFarm in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Tap o’ Noth is an incredible 8-acre agroforestry permaculture small farm that integrates crops and animals alongside perennial planting. By using inspiration from how this land would be if left fully to Nature, James and his partner Rosa are using that to their advantage to…