Saturday Linkages: Passive Cooling, Cats and Three Mules

September 28, 2013

...n-open-source-community-model-to-save-seeds-a-wordpress-seedbank-plugin/ … Permaculture Paradise at Alex’s PermaGarden – Part 1 http://www.naturalbuildingblog.com/permaculture-paradise-at-alexs-permagarden-part-1/ … Growing the color blue: http://chickweedpatch.com/2013/09/24/growing-the-color-blue/ … Handcarts on Rails http://www.notechmagazine.com/2013/09/handcarts-on-rails.html … Brooklyn firm specializes in creating furniture from bowling alle...

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124 Adam Brock on Forming Nurtured Networks

Mr. Homegrown

September 5, 2018

Podcasts

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...an agriculture, sustainable business, and social change. He is a certified permaculture designer and a co-chair of Denver’s Sustainable Food Policy Council. Adam currently serves as Director of Social Enterprise at Joining Vision and Action, Denver’s premier consulting firm for social change organizations. Adam’s website is AdamBrock.me. During the podcast Adam mentions: The GrowHaus A Pattern Language by architect Christopher Alexander Nurtured n...

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Rainwater Harvesting with Joe Linton

Mr. Homegrown

June 4, 2008

rainwater harvesting

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...website. This workshop is part of a continuing series in “hands-on” urban permaculture and includes: An overview presentation on Los Angeles water issues, including local multi-benefit watershed management efforts. A tour of Los Angeles Eco-Village stormwater harvesting landscape features, including the Bimini Slough Nature Park. A hands-on workshop to build terraced swales to detain and infiltrate storm water This workshop focuses on building ea...

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Saturday Linkages: Speedos, Blue Eggs and the Rise of Rye

Mr. Homegrown

September 21, 2013

Saturday Linkages

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...g to the 1981 children’s book Tomorrow’s Home. Trojan Horses, Recipes, and Permaculture http://www.patternliteracy.com/770-trojan-horses-recipes-and-permaculture … How bad for the environment are gas-powered leaf blowers? http://wapo.st/14bgqIQ In Pursuit of Tastier Chickens, a Strict Diet of Four-Star Scraps http://nyti.ms/15yN8EY Rye’s Rise: New Loaves That Are More Than a Vehicle for Pastrami http://shar.es/i9wrV Let’s get (soil) physical… http...

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Polyculture

Mr. Homegrown

December 7, 2006

Permaculture

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...called polyculture in the the garden. We read about it first in the worthy permaculture guide, Gaia’s Garden, by Toby Hemenway. Polyculture is the practice of planting a community of interrelated, interdependent plants, mimicking in your garden (in our case a raised vegetable bed) the complex relationships that are found between plants in nature. In the case of food crops, a polyculture tries to set up conditions where you can eat almost continual...

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