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Permaculture Emerges From the Underground
A good article about one of my very favorite subjects, permaculture was published in the New York Times: Permaculture Emerges From the Underground – NYTimes.com. The author of the article took one of Wayne Weiseman‘s PDC classes. Wayne was just … Continue reading
Aquaponics 101 Video from TheUrbanFarmingGuys
I love what ‘The Urban Farming Guys‘ are doing. This excellent video is a 7 minute introduction to aquaponics. From their ‘about‘ page: Who are we….. We are the urban experiment… We are the seed that died and went into … Continue reading
My Interview on the Growing Your Grub Podcast
Steve Howard with the “Growing Your Grub” podcast interviewed me about community gardening and the Citizen Gardener program. His podcast has been a great resource for vegetable gardening information. He had to adapt his growing techniques when he moved the … Continue reading
Tiny Watermelon
This little melon fell off the vine today. I was surprised when I cut it up to find it was a watermelon! It has more seeds than edible fruit.
Garden Update – July 10, 2011
Lots of activity in my garden right now, but it is mostly bugs and critters eating what little can survive the massive amounts of heat of our summers in Texas. See the other posts I made about my squash bug … Continue reading
Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen
It is a topic so important that two posts were made about it on the same blog today! EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce (click for original article) The graphic below the result of their findings:
Brian C’s Aquaponic System
I toured an aquaponics system today that was pretty cool. Here are the stats: 300 gallon fish tank + 100 gallon sump tank + 55 gallon fry tank 30 pounds of fish (mostly talipia) preps tap water w/ vitamin C … Continue reading
Vermicompost Sifter Project
Here is a quick little project to help sort out worm poop from bedding material. I emptied out about 1/6th of the left side of my worm bin and sifted out the good stuff from the bedding with this. It … Continue reading
Garden Update: June 6, 2011
The main purpose of this post is to offer photographic proof that I’m not a 100% tomato growing failure. I have a pretty good harvest of tomatoes, and I might get a few more weeks of growing season before the … Continue reading
YouTube – Grocery Store Wars (2005)
via YouTube – Grocery Store Wars (2005).