Garden City Part I – Calculations
If it is the case that fossil fuels are scarce and not renewable on human time scales, then it follows that any sustainable or permanent culture must develop a food system that is independent...
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Urine Charge!
Practical Guidance on the Use of Urine in Crop Production: A Review The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), a non-profit research institute based in Sweden, launched it’s latest publication September, 2010: Practical Guidance on the...
Concrete Actions
So often when speaking to urbanites in the Bay Area and beyond about growing food, I hear the resigned, nearly mantric lament, “my apartment does not have any access to any gardening space.” How...
Ethics and Manure
My first permaculture task? Mix equal parts of manure with mulch and spread it out! We did this – sort of because it was rather hot – at one of the urban eatable gardens....
Fresh Produce Free-For-All (or How We Got 1000 lbs of Free Food Simply by Asking)
It’s a funny place this world we live in. On the one hand, we have over one billion people who go hungry every single day all over the world – from the refugee camps...
Bananas in San Francisco?
Bananas, Pigeon Pea, Scarlet Runner Bean, and Comfrey at 18th and Rhode Island. Photo by Jay Rosenberg, July 7, 2010 BUILD A BANANA CIRCLE A Hands-On Permaculture Design Workshop WHEN: August 6, 2010, 12pm-4pm...
Kitchen Gardens
Humans have grown their own food for centuries. It was the industrial revolution that changed the way we ate. What we thought would bring ease actually brought dis-ease. Food processing has inundated our food...
Growing Soil
A couple of weeks ago, I overheard a conversation at Hayes Valley Farm containing the words “Lactobacillus” and “compost”. As I am a fan of both of these things, I felt it was my...
