Gardening

The Export Land Model says net oil exporters will, due to dwindling oil reserves, eventually keep the oil for home use and no longer export it. As an example, this recently happened to Egypt: Egypt went from being a net oil exporter to a net oil ...

Forum topic - Wendy S. Delmater - Jul 31 2012 - 9:25am - 1 comment

Some of us may be interested to know that I discovered a local (Ashfield, western Mass) source for biochar. Current price is $20 for 15lbs, which includes a $5 bucket deposit.  Here is the contact information: Bear Meadow Apiary Nany and Rick ...

Forum topic - ikursat - Sep 12 2011 - 9:42am - 1 comment

While this is written for folks who want to become actual farmers and sell their produce, it contains an extensive list of resoures for organic gardening, how to obtain land to grow your own food on, etc. Worth a look if you want to grow your own food! ...

Forum topic - PetraViolet - Feb 18 2011 - 11:19am - 1 comment

We were able to grow more than enough food to live on in less than a year in our own backyard using permaculture methods.  Most of the plants are self propagating and live on ambient sun and rain.  We live in a working class neighborhood in a small ...

Forum topic - akamai mom - Nov 5 2010 - 6:47am - 10 comments

The most common question by far we get on this website is “ What should I do? ” Once people watch The Crash Course and are awakened to the very real threats posed by Peak Oil and reckless monetary policy, they understandably want to know how to ...

Page - Adam Taggart - May 1 2013 - 6:44pm - 7 comments - 0 attachments

Over the past year, I have made a considerable investment in both money and effort in improving the soil in my garden beds and micro-orchard. My intention was to invest in the health of the soil, as a means of indirectly investing in the health of my ...

Forum topic - JAG - Jun 15 2012 - 3:48am - 51 comments

New Forum Rules Posted Anyone with limited time, who would like to share information with me, without being interrogated about their sources, is welcome to email me.  If I'm interested, I'm more than happy to research the matter on my ...

Forum topic - Cloudfire - Jun 15 2012 - 3:53am - 6 comments

My fiances sister has a house with a decent amount of land.  I want to start learning the skill of gardening and planting on her land. I have a few questions: What is the best way to approach this? Is there an prepackaged way to grow food, ...

Forum topic - Inthon - Jul 23 2009 - 9:59pm - 4 comments

Ok, I admit it . . . . This thread is really just an excuse to lure Plickety Cat into sharing her treasure trove of pearls of wisdom about gardening under extreme conditions  . . . . For newbies to the site, let me explain . . . . Plickety and her ...

Forum topic - Cloudfire - Jun 12 2009 - 1:28am - 12 comments

I've been gardening all of my life, and I've have the priviledge of living in the home in which I grew up.  {forty, ah, fifty-ahem years in the same place}.  Over the years, I've developed lovely gardens, including my treasured woodland ...

Forum topic - Cloudfire - Apr 16 2009 - 12:59pm - 7 comments