Calling all backs, knees, necks, elbows.
Aston Fitness Class for Gardeners.
Most gardener’s experience that when spring comes and we bust out of our cabin fever, the bodily aches and pains accompany our garden lust. Gardening is such good exercise—and it can be GOOD for the body if we know how to go about it.
This class is
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Healthier yet method for making Kombucha!
Kombucha pioneers find method to avoid sugar and caffeine in recipe. danielvitalis.com >
Greens Leaf Wall Fall
Leaf walls covered with Reemay Row Cover and plastic sheeting. This bed is approximately 25’ x 12’.
Harvest Kale Dec
Insulated wall made of used chicken wire
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The start of the Medicine Wheel Garden.
Sheet Mulching is a very basic and important Permaculture skill.
Sometimes called “blanket composting”, “no-work” or “no-dig” gardening, it is very representative of Permaculture in terms of modeling Nature.
This
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Pond Late Summer
We applied simple bioremediation techniques to allow the pond to purify itself. This is a “before” photo. Looking good, but not purifying itself. Then the Pond Work Team started to dig
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Medicine wheel greens, corn and beyond
The yield from our sheet-mulching no-till, “no work” method. Check out the sheet mulching blog entry if you wnat to see what this garden looked like before we got started.
Mouse
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Mushroom propagation outdoors requires some careful preparations.
Site selection is important. In our valley, a shaded site that will retain moisture is critical. This site is under a large apple tree. It is close to a water spigot, to make
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there there little plant
In Permaculture, we place plants together that will naturally support each other, mimicking that design.
guilded
In this fruit tree guild, the central element is a fruit tree, and each guild
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