Seeds
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Why I am cycling around Haiti planting trees
For the past year, I have had the privilege of working with grassroots organizations in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on issues…
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The Value and Significance of Saving Seeds and How it Benefits You
In agriculture, sometimes even the simplest of concepts can encourage better practice and dramatically improve the qualities of your produce.…
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Transitioning from Groceries to Garden
In Memory of Anna, Forever My Sweet Potato Last year, about this time, my wife and Emma and I agreed…
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Varieties, Additives and Sourcing: What’s Happening with your food?
Photography by Ingrid Pullen Eating: one of the most simple and basic human activities. Yet as our food systems become…
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Seed Saving, Part 2: Practical Ways to Save Seed
Saving wildflower seeds can be a great way to spread biodiversity – like this selection harvested by Josie Jeffrey Having…
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Protecting Seeds and Their Stories: The Sacred in Everyday Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJkEFN7lqqc The recent UN Climate Change Summit, the marches in New York and around the world, once again brought into…
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Linux for Lettuce
Revolutionizing American agribusiness from the ground up, one seed at a time Photo: Dave Calder From a distance, Jim Myers…
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Beware the Corporate Takeover of Seed Under Many Guises
New and existing legislations and treaties are increasingly restricting people’s food rights and eroding agricultural biodiversity in favour of a…
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Seed Saving, Part 1: Seedy Issues
For many interested in permaculture, one of the first and perhaps simplest joys of becoming more involved in holistic design…
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Report on 5-Day Permaculture Workshop for the Etse Fewus Herbalists Association in Fitch, North Soha, Ethiopia: Part 2
Continuing from Part 1. Sunday 21/09/14: Day 4 The group were very happy with the biole preparations we did on…
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Accidental Propagation, For the Best in Gardening (Panama)
Many of the most successful gardens we’ve propagated have been as much luck and accident as they have been my…
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Low-Tech Natural Nursery Strategies (Washington, USA)
When most people think about nurseries and plant propagation, they conjure up rows and rows of black pots and the…
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