244: Raymond Jess on Wicking Beds
244: Raymond Jess on Wicking Beds. Watering up in the garden, and using physics to maintain proper soil hydration. – – – – After retiring from two careers, the Air…
Featured Farmer: Raymond Jess from Phoenix, AZ
Featured Farmer: Raymond Jess from Phoenix, AZ Tell me a little about your urban farm. What is its name? Size? I’m not sure I can call my small backyard an…
651: Thinking Outside the Garden Box
A Garden Chat with Raymond Jess. – Farmer Greg talks with Raymond Jess and Janis Norton, from the Urban Farm, about a multitude of variations on the traditional garden box. They share their own experiences and discuss the unique advantages of each type of bed, covering topics such as how they…
RECIPE: Oven Roasted Tomato Soup
Late spring is always a time of bountiful harvest in my garden. The tomatoes are ripening at an alarming rate, the onions and garlic are ready to pull and the basil is big and beautiful. With so many things coming together at the same time there is always a dilemma as to what to do with it all, aside from gifting to my neighbors.
Grow Buckets
Several years ago, I started my adventure with wicking garden beds. I found the concept powerful and wondered, how can I use this concept in a different way? I consulted the internet and found a few good ideas, but not quite what I wanted. I needed something I thought might stand up to the unrelenting summer heat of Phoenix, Arizona and produce a nice vegetable harvest. I came up with this design of a grow bucket.
Wicking Bed 2.0
Wicking Bed 2.0 By Raymond Jess Editor’s note: Check out our podcast interview with Raymond here, and read his first wicking bed article here. The influence behind the ingenuity… Two…
Dehydrating Your Home Grown Herbs
Dehydrating Your Home Grown Herbs By Stephany Jess A natural extension of an urban vegetable garden is growing herbs. Grown side-by-side with vegetables, herbs add a special flavor to the…
Building my Wicking Garden Bed
Building my Wicking Garden Bed By Raymond Jess Updated: May 2017 with new pictures at bottom.Check out Wicking Beds 2.0 and Wicking Beds 3.0 next!I discovered wicking garden beds when…
Team
The Urban Farm Leadership Team Greg Peterson Founder, Visionary,Creative Foundation Farmer Greg is the creator and chief visionary of The Urban Farm. Anything Urban Farm probably started in his head.…
Podcast Guests by Name
Podcast Guests by Last Name We have had over 850 interviews so far, and the list keeps growing… A Abbott, Don (24) Ableman, Michael (148) Ackerman-Leist,…
