Grow the Change
30 June 2009

A Cutworm Fence: protecting row crops from cutworm damage

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Putting physical barriers, such as tin-foil or paper collars, around transplants is a common method of controlling cutworm damage . As immat...
26 June 2009

Garden Tour

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My how the garden grows! Rainbow after a thunder shower only 10 days ago... The view from the kitchen table this morning. There's a lot ...
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23 June 2009

Going Crackers

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All winter long I have the luxury of baking and cooking throughout the day, since we spend more of our time indoors, than out. Come summer, ...
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22 June 2009

Makin' hay while the sun shines

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That's the trick around here, in a humid climate there are short weather windows. The best quality hay, and the highest protein hay, is...
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18 June 2009

If only I had known the trouble I had sown...

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Organic and Ecological gardening relies heavily on an intact bio-sphere of pests and their natural predators. There are literally hundreds o...
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16 June 2009

What to do when things go wrong?

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Good planning, preparation and preventative measures are the best insurance of good health and success in the garden and in the barn. But, e...
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08 June 2009

The market garden

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We are growing a 1/4 acre market garden this year, specializing in peas and beans. It is a good crop for us to grow in new ground, with lim...
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04 June 2009

Hand Weeding

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Hand weeding can be a big chore in the early garden. In my first few gardens, the weeds always got away on me, and I have since learned that...
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We believe that growing our own food is the most radical and effective way to promote social justice, equality and sustainability. Everyone, to some extent, can grow their own food. It makes even more sense for communities to grow their own food, sharing responsibilities and costs. It requires a restructuring of values, the kinds of values that are necessary for a consumer culture to wake up to the exploitation and poverty we perpetuate throughout the world. Our socially and environmentally exploitive food-culture perpetuates the very resource wars and poverty that concern so many of us. Growing food brings our environment sharply into focus; we learn how much we rely on healthy food, healthy soil and an healthy ecosystem. On our homestead, and in this blog, we practice and advocate human-scaled food systems, with an intimate hands on approach, as a way for everyone on this earth to be nutritiously and sustainably fed, from the first world to the third world. Our diverse, closed-loop homestead is to us, a relevant form of protest, as well as a constructive way to build a sustainable future. We are all in this together. Not one of us lives on this earth alone.
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