Tag: microclimate

669: Christy Wilhelmi on Garden Variety – a Novel

There’s More to Gardening Than Merely Keeping Pests at Bay. – Christy Wilhelmi returns to tell us about her latest book, Garden Variety, a novel set in a community garden. She explains why she wrote the book and shares a little bit about the process, then she introduces us to the characters and even…

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638: Permaculture in the Garden

A Garden Chat with Kari Spencer. – Great gardeners seem to know all the rules – but the very best gardener is the one who wrote the rules. She is Mother Nature and has no equal. Her systems and regenerative cycles CAN be replicated in our gardens and food forests to help them be amazingly…

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572: Neil Boyd on Life on a Grain Farm

Farming in Northern Alberta Farming in Northern Canada can be challenging due to short growing seasons and soil so thick that only resilient plants survive. However, Neil Boyd understands the land better than most and he also knows the secrets…

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Methods to Reverse Desertification

By Guest blogger: Ricardo Aguirre The Earth’s environment is constantly changing, but even for an environment that changes with relative balance, natural disasters are a fact of life on earth.  However, due to human based agricultural and industrial impacts, mankind appears to have adversely…

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144: Marianne West on Organic Gardening

Marianne shares her story and motivations that have moved her to transform her 1/3 acre into a food forest. She shares her passion for permaculture with Greg and tells him how she has really put to use the water harvesting techniques she has learned.

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