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Straw Bale Garden: Take 2, Scene 1
…most part, just wet inside. Where’s the compost? Identifying the Problem Over the winter, I consulted Evan Folds from Progressive Farms on this non-composting problem. Evan is one of our…
Nutrient Origins Matter to Plants
…You’ll find seasoned gardeners like Evan Folds, writer Jeff Lowenfels, and a host of others in the progressive gardening industry passionate about microbes and the soil food web. Kempf calls…
Using Compost Tea in Hydroponics
Sometimes soilless growing benefits hugely from soil techniques. For example, using compost tea in hydroponics. Breaking the rules can sometimes alter everything from your plants’ perspective. When people are first…
The Importance of Homemade Fertilizer
…Evan Folds, soil nutrient and microorganism expert from Progressive Gardens and Progressive Farms, who has a wealth of knowledge to share, he had the following to say in an article…
Study Finds Climate Change Will Expand Globe’s Agricultural Land
…Culture’s Evan Folds . It also means protecting various natural resources that help store carbon, such as boreal forests and peatlands in Northern Canada. Other growing methods also need to…
Agricultural Threefolding and Building a Cooperative Grocery Store in a Food Desert
In a big broad stroke, we live in a world defined by culture, rights, and economy. These domains of social activity generate the landscape for our humanity. The conscious dynamic…
Archaea And The Origin Of Earth
Everything on Earth starts with the soil. For billions of years the living topsoil has been accumulating naturally, and in only the last one hundred years we have abused…
At The Crossroads: To Use or Be Used By Technology?
If you live in the modern world, technology is a big deal. This becomes obvious when you lose your phone and need an important phone number or when your WiFi…
Regenerative Agriculture The Solution To Reconnecting With Nature And Ourselves
The way we treat the soil reflects the way we treat ourselves, and the way we treat ourselves is the way we treat the world. Unfortunately, these critical truths are…
Biodynamic Gardening: Perfect Soil Balance
This article was originally published in Garden Culture Magazine, Issue 1 under the title: “The Invisible Garden: A Perfect Balance”. Think about it, some of the most important things regarding…
What Is Fertilizer, Anyway? Part 1
The technology of farming is what literally started humanity. That’s right, before farming we hunted and gathered with most of our attention paid to survival instead of specializing. The first…
All Fertilizers Are Different
If you have grown a garden then you have used fertilizers. Fertilizer is a human invention that supports the greater part of success in modern agriculture and home gardening. Used…
Make Your Own Organic Soil Mix
Soil is like water. Both sustain life as we know it, yet they are so omnipresent that we take them for granted. And due to both their importance and complexity,…
Is Reusing Potting Soil A Good Idea?
This article is republished from UK Issue 7 of Garden Culture Magazine. It originally appeared under the title, Reusing Your Potting Soil. The idea that reusing potting soil is taboo…
CAFO: Plenty Of Animals, Plenty Of Harmful Effects
This article originally appeared in Garden Culture Magazine UK27 and US25. One of the primary ways that modern agriculture has become compromised is a general lack of attention towards…
Helping Farmers Make an Essential Transition
The story of agriculture maps human history. From the original farmers that planted the seeds of human specialization and culture to the signing of the Homestead Act by Abraham Lincoln…
Detox with Fruit And Fasting
In case you haven’t noticed, the world is broken. I don’t mean to be dramatic; I’m serious. We might live longer, but do we live better? The developed world…
Regenerative is the New Sustainable
What do you think; are we doing our humanity justice? For everything that humanity has going for it, do you think we could be doing a better job? In…
How To Grow A Healthy Society
Society is heavily influenced by narrative and incentive. The stories that we tell can be a means of turning our values into action, or they can be used against us…
What is Food? Changing The World One Bite At a Time
Sometimes, the most familiar things are the most foreign. We have never seen the hydrogen bonds in a water molecule, we do not know the generative origin of electricity or…