Category: Information
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A Subversive (garden) Plot
Here is a good video about backyard vegetable gardening and food safety. Roger Doiron is founding director of Kitchen Gardeners International, a network of people taking a hands-on approach to re-localizing the global food supply. Doiron is an advocate for new policies, technologies, investments, and fresh thinking about the role of gardens. His successful petition…
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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
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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.
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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…
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Most Bugs are Good Bugs
I recently saw a fascinating (and a little gross) picture on facebook that caught my attention. I’ve had these fat little munchers (hornworms) on my tomato plants in the past, and they have quite an apatite! Like everything in nature, there is balance and control. Fat worms like the hornworm are used by certain wasps to lay…