Author: Brian Gallimore

  • Barn Aid 3

    Barn Aid 3

        Eden’s Organic presents Barn Aid 3, a benefit to raise funds for Feed Texas First.  Local Cheese and Wine Pairing from Scardello and Calais, ans guest speaker Amanda Vanhoosier.  Free concert featuring Lorynn the Redhead and movie screening “Urban Roots” too!   — October 9, 2011 —     

  • Zero Cost / Zero Waste Alternative to Pots

    An alternative to buying pots for starting seeds or making pots out of newspaper is to use a clump of soil with no container at all by using a handy little tool like the soil cube.  There are several benefits from starting seeds like this: saves money (no re-occurring costs) no need to sanitize old pots…

  • The Self Sufficient Gardener: How Composting Works

    Jason Akers’ presentation “Composting: What You Need to Know” given at the Mother Earth News Fair 2011: His slideshow is also available at http://www.theselfsufficientgardener.com/Composting.pdf

  • Citizen Gardener Class #2 – Promise of Peace – Dallas

    Here are the pictures I took of the Citizen Gardener class held at the Promise of Peace community garden: 201109-citizengardener2 I’ll post links to more pictures on the Citizen Gardener Class #2 post on the forum.

  • Future Citizen Gardener Teachers

    Friday night a group of students from Citizen Gardener class #1 met at the Promise of Peace community garden with Dick Pierce from Austin to train to be future Citizen Gardener teachers.  We went over the objectives of the class, the topics, exercises, what to say, what not to say, how to answer questions, where we…