***PLEASE NOTE: This is the handout provided to attendees at the 2014 Organic Growers School Spring Conference class Backyard Weeds with Juliet Blankespoor of Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine . While it was intended to be read in conjunction with the speaker’s...
***PLEASE NOTE: This is the handout provided to attendees at the 2014 Organic Growers School Spring Conference class Shifting Gears to Year-Round Gardening with Jeff Ashton. While it was intended to be read in conjunction with the speaker’s presentation, we...
Perennial Plants for Health Perennial Plants for Health…more awesome plants to grow for food and medicine… Incorporating perennial plantings into your annual gardens opens up an array of vegetable, fruit, and herb crops to benefit your health as well as the...
Organic eating wasn’t on my radar till it was time to feed my first baby solid food back in 1990. Earth’s Best OG applesauce was just hitting the shelves in Charlotte supermarkets. You’d think a dedicated hippie-type like me would have known about such things, being...
I often think of us as a culture of orphans. Disconnected from the skills and experience that would have us feed, clothe, and shelter ourselves in simple, hand-made ways. In an ideal world, we would have been taught by the ones closest to us. From the very get-go....
Dear Ruth, Greetings from SW North Dakota. I had some problem with blight the past few years. I was told to place clear plastic in the latter part of the summer in the area where you plan to grow tomatoes the following year. l staked down the plastic and checked the...