urban agriculture

Vegetable garden paths – design considerations

Vegetable garden paths are essential in your food garden. If designed correctly, they make the space more functional, beautiful, aid…

6 years ago

Sheet mulching – Issues and alternatives

Sheet mulching is a common practice recommended in permaculture. It uses cardboard and paper to smother the earth from growing…

6 years ago

Farm individuality – new concepts of individuality for urban food growers

Farm individuality is an important principle in biodynamic food growing. Individuality can also be applied in urban food growing spaces…

6 years ago

Biodynamic agriculture conference – 2018 at the Goetheanum – My reflections

The biodynamic agriculture conference for 2018, held at the Goetheanum, Switzerland, was a wonderful experience for me. I wanted to…

6 years ago

Making good compost – a biodynamic perspective for well balanced compost

Making good compost is a key goal of any serious organic gardener. I have found that biodynamic methods used to…

6 years ago

Keeping backyard chickens in your vegetable garden space

Keeping backyard chickens around your food gardens is an important part of widening the living system that supports your soil…

6 years ago

Four fold nature of the organic garden and urban farm

Four fold nature is a very helpful conceptual framework for looking at the make up of your organic garden or…

7 years ago

Spring experience in a sub tropical climate vegetable garden

Spring experience in a sub tropical organic garden is quite a unique one compared to more temperate climates. There is…

7 years ago

Using planetary impacts in the vegetable garden

Using planetary impacts in the vegetable garden is a method of widening the system you work with to create greater…

7 years ago

Managing NPK in your organic garden or farm with living processes

Managing NPK is an obsession of industrialised agriculture which started over 100 years ago. This focus works with complex combinations…

7 years ago