Monthly Archives: July 2008

Organoponic Raised Bed Gardening was created in Cuba and was born from the crisis the Cubans experienced after the collapse of the Soviet Union and this crisis was deepened by the strengthening of the American Trade Embargo An Organoponico simply consists of low level concrete … Read More →

N.E.A.R Northland Energy and The Agrarian Revolution NEAR is a loose network of people concerned about the Peak Oil Crisis who believe the only response is an Agrarian Revolution The coordinator of NEAR GrantSteven zenfarmer@gmail.com “Life is about to become intensely Local “ James Kunstler … Read More →

Bio-char or Agri-char: the new frontier Inspired by the fascinating properties of Terra Preta de Indio, bio-char is a soil amendment that has the potential to revolutionize concepts of soil management. While “discovered” may not be the right word, as bio-char (also called charcoal or … Read More →

Whole Systems AgricultureLiving The Agrarian Dream through a Whole Systems Approach to Hand-Scaled Gardening Complex Natural Systems ModelOctober, 2004 The theoretical model for our little farm is a living organism of one kind or another. This model includes the subsystems that make up the whole … Read More →

A Crude Awakening [90 min] This film has been referred to as ” Another Inconvenient Truth” Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and … Read More →

A Personal Vision of NorthTec by Grant Steven Many people now believe that we are at the Peak of World Petroleum Production, which is not the same as saying we are about to run out of oil. That will not happen for many decades, if … Read More →

The goal of customising soils is to create the Perfect Soil and to transform Dirt into Real Soil. Dirt consists of sand, silt and clay and thus two of the components are inert and nutritionally worthless, they are the sand and silt components, which are … Read More →

In the above photo, vegetable plants are growing in a mixture of aged sawdust, bedding scoria and clay loam. This garden needs No Weeding and No Digging. The clay loam was from a building site and was mostly clean of weed seed Fertilisers are lightly … Read More →

Most people do not attempt to build all their garden beds at once, but do it one bed at a time, that is they build a bed then fill it and plant it. Then maybe they build another one in a few months time and … Read More →