Adamama, according to their web site, was founded in 2003 “for adopting ways of sustainable lifestyle, agriculture and recycling, and as a place for finding the balance between man and nature.”
And here’s an excerpt from a Haaretz article about “an anarchist group” in Nir Moshe.
“The journey began with a visit to Nir Moshe, where a […]
Organic farmers should appreciate the vigilance of the rat terrier breed of dog against rabbits, squirrels, rats and other nibblers of your produce. Calmer than Jack Russell terriers, rat terriers are also more appropriate as a typical family dog.
A Boing Boing post by Cory Doctorow about rats in an upscale L.A. community got me thinking […]
In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore said he grew tobacco among other crops on the family farm in Carthage, Tennessee during summer vacations in his youth. Gore also likened what he views as today’s suppression of global warming evidence by Big Oil to the cover up long ago by Big Tobacco of the health risks […]
Patrick Stanton asked me about root cellar requirements in an email message.
“I had a technical self-reliance question that you could address on the blog, MLL list, or directly: What are the requirements of a root cellar? We have a dirt floor, brick walled basement, but what alterations would be needed to store food through the […]
A Boing Boing post links to a National Geographic article about honeybees used in Tokyo to protect seabirds (terns) from attack by crows. A related NatGeo story tells of a gun club hunting crows at a city’s request.
Wizard Saruman isn’t going to like this.
A commenter on another site said “crows are the new dogs” after […]
Greywater Guerrillas help stop pollution of the water supply by using greywater to irrigate trees and other plants in the garden.
Greywater is water that flows down sink, shower, and washing machine drains–but not the toilet. Greywater may contain traces of dirt, food, grease, hair, and household cleaning products. While greywater may look “dirty,” it is […]
A new project that seems at first blush to be Hobbiton Meets Starship Troopers (because its founding leaders are veterans) is the formation of an off-grid community designed to provide mutual aid and support with a “family values” emphasis.
The founders already have 100s of acres to start, from the 419 area code on the site […]
Just because PETA drives me crazy, don’t think I hate vegetarians. The Path To Freedom family in the video is a model for everyone.
I’m all for Food Not Lawns, Edible Estates, and Urban Homesteading if you’ve already got a house in the ‘burbs. My only quibble is that for renters looking to buy a […]
Gardeners can fight pests while remaining organic by using beneficial insects to eat harmful bugs.
The fly in this ointment is that one of PETA’s recent campaigns is to treat the sale of common predator bugs the same as cows in the slaughterhouse or dogs from the pet store.
Don’t we get enough puritanism from the right? […]
The bacteria caused disease Salmonellosis is in the news with detectives tracking tainted tomatoes. It’s a serious issue:
In severe cases, the Salmonella infection may spread from the intestines to the blood stream, and then to other body sites and can cause death unless the person is treated promptly with antibiotics. . .Some people afflicted with […]
Inspired by the historic Victory Gardens of San Francisco, which supplied the area with 40% of the food consumed during WW2, and motivated by a desire to eliminate the high energy costs of trucked-in produce, the Alemany Farm started by volunteers taking over a former illegal dump as an experimental urban garden, with the […]
The co-author of the permaculture design title Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set), Ed Toensmeier, has a new book out called Perennial Vegetables.
The publisher, Chelsea Green, describes it further in the subtitle:
From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardener’s Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow Edibles
Cindy Dyer of the Garden Muse blog photographed Toensmeier receiving an […]
One of Boing Boing’s editors, Mark Frauenfelder, must be in a “vegetative state” today, but at least he doesn’t have the steampunk fixation to Cory Doctorow’s extent. (Speaking of Steampunk, my brain puts today’s RepRap breakthrough news in that category.)
Back to Mark and his veggies, he’s joined the gardening brigades, but is having trouble identifying […]
Media star Daryl Hannah is known to geeks mostly as the replicant from Blade Runner and to green activists for her protesting the bulldozing of the South Central Farm by living in a tree on the site until she was removed by the authorities so another warehouse could be built.
I find the natural pest repellent […]
A Homesteading Today thread begins with a post by the self-described “Revolutionary” Ernie, who says:
Gardening is hard work. It’s backbreaking, sweaty, blistering, and monotonous. While I love the alchemy of turning soil, sunshine, and water into calories for my family, I would much rather sit in the shade underneath the old maples and fritter away […]
Digg links to an article at Remedicated.com about “20 Common Cooking Ingredients That Act As Medicines”.
Find out what turmeric, ginger, cinnamon, garlic, rosemary, honey, chili peppers, olive oil, rice, parsley, onions (and related plants such as chives, shallots, and leeks), lemon, mustard, cloves, apples, kale, licorice, peppermint, horseradish, and avocado can do for you besides […]
The Futurist May/June 2008 issue (if you’re reading this after then, check their archives) includes the cover feature article “Draining Our Future: The Growing Shortage of Freshwater” by Lester R. Brown. A free guest article at TreeHugger by Brown covers water shortages worldwide. It seems like the OPEC countries in the Middle East will […]
Richard Reynolds, who appeared in a recent Current TV Guerrilla Gardening video, has a book on the subject available May 27 with a pre-order discount.
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Grow Your Own Pharmacy by Linda Gray, published last year by Findhorn Press, describes in detail the nutrients such as vitamins, minerals and other herbal compounds in various plants. The first chapters cover “Ingredients For A Healthy Body” and “Introduction to Gardening.”
The book gives some history, the conditions and methods of sowing each plant and […]
Site for worldwide guerrilla gardening featured on video from Current TV about an action taken in the UK to enhance neglected public landscape.
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A few months ago, John Laumer wrote about Survivalist Green for TreeHugger.
The most prominent face of Survivalist Green is that of the city dweller; the second is of the suburban or exurban dweller. (Covers everything from apartments along the rail line to Mega-Mansions in the exurb zone.)
The third face of SG extends to the house […]
The Independent describes a version of a Food Not Lawns/Edible Estates-ish organization in the UK.
Twelve months on and Food Up Front is now signing up people for year two. It has a network of more than 30 street rep co-ordinators, and has attracted the interest of would-be urban farmers from neighbouring boroughs and beyond.
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Browsing recent bookmarks at del.icio.us led me to a series about Utopias in Forbes.com, including an interesting article called “Ecotopia”. The author is not as skeptical about the anti-capitalist lifestyle as you might expect from a business journal.
And despite the new commune members’ reliance on local barter and low-tech sustainable gardening, the use of satellite […]
Green Living Expo is in Los Angeles this weekend. Free Admission!
“Over 200 exhibits.” Organic food, alternative energy, sustainable fashions, clean household goods, music, art, and health products.
I’ll be wandering around there since I’m in town.
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Al “Bokashiman” sent me a more direct link to The Vancouver Guerrilla Gardeners Meetup Group.
On their description page, an elegant statement from the Toronto Public Space Committee is quoted:
“Without permit or license, we plant seeds and seedlings in all those neglected corners of public space. Join us as we vandalise the city with nature!”
Al also […]
Digg links to an Environmental Graffiti humor piece about toxic plants titled “Five Household Plants That Can Kill You.” Some commenters said the title was inaccurate, but since it says “CAN kill you” (if eaten or leaves/petals/seeds brewed as a tea) the title stands. It’s not saying the plants ARE killing you.
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Anne over at My Urban Garden Deco Guide is another voice in the Food, Not Lawns movement.
Having a lawn and flower beds may soon be a major faux-pas, sign of selfish vulgarity.
Yep. So make sure your garden designer is an early adopter of the tidal wave about to arrive in every magazine, in every […]
One of these days, after I get the transportation challenge figured out, it will be me explaining my first year off the grid. Until then, you’ll just have to get Doug Fine’s book, Farewell, My Subaru. Thanks, Boing Boing TV!
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As a defender of chickens in the backyard and not being a vegan, I took the villainous position against the little animals in an animal rights debate held at Dinah’s on March 17, 2008.
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The political range was from libertarian to conservative, which […]
BBC reports “Cuba lifts farmers’ supplies ban” as a small change by Raul Castro to improve agricultural productivity.
Small-scale farmers in some parts of the country will be allowed to buy such items as seeds, fertiliser and clothing equipment from state stores.
This seems to be further encouragement of family subsistence by the central government through permaculture […]
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