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Tree Crops
TREE CROPS For thousands of years, farmers have generally differentiated forestry and agriculture. Forests were either left alone or planted and maintained as a source of fuel and building material. In the best of cases, certain trees also offered forage for livestock and other farm animals. The farm fields were generally kept clear of any […]
“Free” Fertilizer is Saving Rural Farmers
“FREE” FERTILIZER IS SAVING RURAL FARMERS Revitalizing dead soil can be done in just one planting season, thanks to Shivansh farming. Rural farmers can use whatever materials are available to them to restore their livelihoods – lowering their costs and increasing their yields. The majority of the world’s poorest farmers use a nitrogen fertilizer called […]
The Best Perennial Vegetables
THE BEST PERENNIAL VEGETABLES One of the tasks that I most dislike about the farming life is preparing the raised beds each time I want to plant out a crop of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, or onion. While I do enjoy eating a fresh tomato from my garden, the tedious, repetitive tasks of preparing the garden […]
Cold Frames, How and Why
COLD FRAMES, HOW AND WHY Before moving to the temperate climate, I’d assumed that winter was pretty much a wash for growing a decent crop. I knew soils were good and summers abundant, all of which led to lots of food storage for getting through winter. I even looked forward to the squashes and pumpkins, […]
The Problems With Our Industrial Water System Today
THE PROBLEMS WITH OUR INDUSTRIAL WATER SYSTEM TODAY Imagine that you´re in your home on a rainy afternoon. It has been raining for two days straight now and your front yard is full of puddles. The water is rushing along the drain ways on the side of the road and the local news is talking […]
Go Green Beans!
GO GREEN BEANS! Green, string, snap, pole, or bush, whatever you call these beans, these edible little pods are great to grow in the garden. Green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), as we think of them, typically grow in two forms. These two main growing forms are what we call bush and pole bean growing styles. Bush […]
Going Off the Grid to Cost Others
GOING OFF THE GRID TO COST OTHERS Victorian power company AusNet Services is sharing evidence of parliamentary pushing to update the industry that is ever-changing and incredibly innovative. AusNet is one of the five distributing companies of electricity in Victoria and covers the outer northern and eastern suburbs, as well as the eastern portion of […]
The Basics of Growing Food in the Winter
THE BASICS OF GROWING FOOD IN THE WINTER Having spent so much time in tropical environs, I fretted over having to think about seasons, in terms of temperature, when my wife Emma and I decided to give North Carolina a try. Suddenly, we are having to think about frosts much more than wet and dry […]
Cooperation Versus Competition: An Evolutionary Perspective
COOPERATION VERSUS COMPETITION: AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE Charles Darwin is credited for forming the idea of evolution. During his explorations around the world and his intimate observation of how animal and plant life evolved over time, he came to believe that everything followed one basic maxim: “the survival of the fittest.” This theory states that organisms […]
The Benefits of Using a Solar Heat Catch
THE BENEFITS OF USING A SOLAR HEAT CATCH When the weather starts getting warmer we can all start preparing for heating bills to jump up over the next couple months. Whether your heating system runs on electricity or natural gas, you can still expect it to get pretty high. If you heat your home with […]
Check Dams and the Promise of Renewing Groundwater Springs
CHECK DAMS AND THE PROMISE OF RENEWING GROUNDWATER SPRINGS When my family and I moved onto our farm a couple of years ago, the small creek that ran through the bottom part of our land had been essentially abandoned for several decades. While we could hear the creek, it was all but impossible to make […]
How Permaculture is the Perfect Match for Homesteading
HOW PERMACULTURE IS THE PERFECT MATCH FOR HOMESTEADING WHAT IS PERMACULTURE? “Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labor; of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system.” BILL MOLLISON The […]
The Revolutionary Civilizational Paradigm Eco Villages
THE REVOLUTIONARY CIVILIZATIONAL PARADIGM ECO VILLAGES The vast majority of people in the world no longer live in any sort of human settlement that could be considered a village. Rather, the increased urbanization of our species and the displacement of rural communities has led to a collection of isolated individuals who have very little relationship […]
Organic Pesticides, Biological Controls, and Finding What Can Be Grown
ORGANIC PESTICIDES, BIOLOGICAL CONTROLS, AND FINDING WHAT CAN BE GROWN Bugs are inevitably a part of growing things. While most of the bugs out there are good for the soil and good for your plants, there are plenty of pests that will drive you crazy while you try to salvage a tomato crop ravaged by […]
The Crises That Have Come With Urbanization
THE CRISES THAT HAVE COME WITH URBANIZATION One of the defining aspects of our current civilization and one of the most worrying trends of modernity is our urbanization as a species. When we take the long view of human history, it becomes obvious that for 99% of our history, we have been a rural people, […]
