"I love that you've brought this to attention. An extensive database of uncommon but resistant and hardy plants/foods could be developed and organized by climate. Ease of growth and processing should also be taken in to account. I will try to…"
A crash course in changing the world.
Creating a Viable Farming Model for a Local Food System
This is a great, thorough article on sustainable gardening - one of the best I've come across. I know that there have been many looking for "beginner's insight" and this writing is so succinct and engaging that I am just linking it instead of reiterating it! I've bookmarked it as a sort of Evoke manifesto on sustainable business models - Good stuff!
Biodynamic methods offer great hope for healing the earth and for the future of farming. We decided that rather than trying to change a broken system, we would create a new model that combines the wisdom of the past with recent innovations in sustainable initiatives. As husband and wife, with three strong, capable children, we committed to finding a community and starting a farm based on biodynamic principles that would allow new paradigms for the business of growing food to emerge..
http://www.biodynamics.com/creating-a-viable-farming-model
I plan to use information from this and Evoke collaborators as a starting point in the conversation with Highpoint regarding the Community Garden!
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Comment by Ayala Sherbow on March 16, 2010 at 2:50am
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thanks Linda. this is going into my "best of" bookmark folder!
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Comment by Rahul Dewanjee on March 17, 2010 at 3:51am
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G'day Linda. I am inspired once again by what you wrote. I have bookmarked it on my browser as well. My favorite lines are: a new model that combines the wisdom of the past with recent innovations in sustainable initiatives
You might like to see this video which talks about how we can effectively renew the soil:
How mushrooms can restore our ecosystem by Paul Stamets
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I give you +1 for entrepreneurship
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Comment by Linda Holt on March 17, 2010 at 4:24am
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Rahul - thank you so much for pointing me to the link on mushrooms - I am looking for a local source so that I can venture into this aspect in my garden. I have an area in my back yard that is perfect for growing mushrooms (I know this because i get all kinds of as of yet unidentified specimens during the rainy season!
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I'm happy that you've found my contributions relevant in your context. I am looking forward to help you in any way I can. Best of luck!
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Comment by Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys on March 19, 2010 at 6:20am
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Great article Linda!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
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