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Meal Time for Your Garden

Jun 182011

This is an article that mentions two of my favorite things: permaculture and Steve Solomon. I was a bit skeptical about the author’s supposition that the NPK of compost was around 1:1:1, but some further research on the web (Google), revealed it to appear to be accurate as a Back of the Envelope calculation.

You can read this article here:

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Meal+time+your+garden/4969377/story.html

For a long debate on the NPK of Compost, here is a thread from the Garden Web forum:

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/soil/msg062204286359.html?71

And my favorite compost:

Dig My Earth

Learning To Live Well With The Earth : Andrew Faust : Permaculture Design on Vimeo

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Jun 172011

Learning To Live Well With The Earth : Andrew Faust : Permaculture Design on Vimeo

This is a video with Andrew Faust where he discusses much of the “Why?” of Permaculture and some of the “What?”. From there he moves to what his Permaculture Design Course is like. Take 5 minutes watch it, relax, and reconnect with the basics.

Permaculture By The Numbers. Permaculture Design Course in Cayutaville, N

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Jun 172011

This course is going to be held from July 22-August 7, 2011 and is being offered by Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute. Tuition is $1200, though there is a discount if you register by July 1st. FLPCI is one of the places I mulled over heading to for my PDC over the years and is one of the locations on the East Coast of the US where PDCs and other classes are held regularly. If you are looking for an opportunity and have the time, check out this class.

Class Information:

http://fingerlakespermaculture.org/?page_id=355

Vermiculture -or- Composting With Worms and Loving It (Video)

Education No Responses »

Jun 072011

Flowplayer requires IE 9 or Safari with Quicktime. If you are using another browser please download the video (Right-click, Save As): Composting with Worms (309MB).

This is a presentation I gave to Transition Harrisburg on vermicomposting a few weeks back. It’s a running discussion on how to setup, use, and harvest with a worm bin. If you are interested in more details about this subject, check out Worms Eat My Garbage by Mary Appelhof.

y Permaculture Design Course gave me the idea to start using worms, but that book really got me going. Short, simple, and answers all the major questions. You can figure out the rest as you go. Trust your worms and have fun.

A big thank you to my friend Susan for recording and editing the video.

Mini: Improvising and Adapting a Design

Techniques No Responses »

Jun 012011

Click here to download the episode.

One of the issues I’ve been faced with recently is having to change a design and how it is to be installed while in the middle of working on it. This show is about some things that we need in order to be able to do so most effectively. They are:

Knowledge
Skills
Tools
Materials
Time

One item not included on this list, but that does get mentioned in the show, is what may be one of our most vital abilities: to accept and admit “I don’t know.”

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