Here are some of the things that I've helped grow:
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My vegetable plot a couple of years
ago.
It was part of a larger (3-acre) garden that I ran for a few years. During that time I took it through the organic certification process. The land remains certified - through the Cariboo Organic Producers Association (COPA). It is now being used, in part, by individuals. |
| The hydroponic lettuce greenhouse ran all year. I sold the harvest through a local store and to restaurants in the area. While I did experiment with other varieties, butter lettuce remained the most viable. The greenhouse held about 600 head when fully operational. The yellow cards are sticky insect traps. | A couple of young sprouts helped me with the other growing things a few summers ago. |
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A BASIC SOIL QUIZ (Peter Warshall, Editor):
Link to Whole Earth Web Site
And, in case you were wondering, this is what the
weather is like around here right now.
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2. What soils grow your food and fiber? Which soils filtered and purified
the water you drink?
3. Do any virgin soils remain in your bioregion? Who - if anyone -
cares about protecting them?
4. What makes your soil landscape particular?
5. Do special layers of soils nurture singular flowers or grasses?
6. Do you need phosphates to grow your garden?
7. What's your soil's history? How have humans changed your watershed's
soils?
8. What soils cause problems to your community? ...house foundations?
Silt? Quicksand?
9. Are the soils healthy? Do you know of leakage from old industries
or landfills?
10. Could parts of parking lots be unearthed to make room for trees
between the car slots?
Darwin's last book was not
on natural selection, but on worms and earth. - Evan Eisenberg.*
The root system of a single
four month old rye plant was found to have a surface area of 639
square meters - 130 times the surface
area of the above-ground plant. - Evan Eisenberg.*
[More to come....]
*Reviews and order information for The Ecology of Eden by Evan Eisenberg.
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Noteworthy web sites:
The
Garden Project. A growing blessing.
Plants for a Future. An excellent database and general resource.
Intergarden Seed Sources, Seed Exchange & Seed Saving Resources on
the Web.
C.E.E.D.S. Live and work on an organic farm for the summer = farm stays.
Chris Czajkowski Books by a great botanist and adventurer.
