Episode-2384- Building Soil Fertility, Biology and Structure in the Garden Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadToday we are going to focus on soil but strictly from a garden stand point. There is so much to soil building on broad scale but where you can really do amazing things fast is at the garden scale. It … Continue reading →
A specialist in biological pest control, Ron Whitehurst advises farmers and gardeners on growing food and herbs in harmony with nature. After earning a BA in Biology at Indiana University, he moved to California and got a PCA license. Over … Continue reading →
Today we talk about starting seeds in a variety of ways but mostly from the stand point of starting them indoors to get plants ready to be put out after danger of frost. This is an area where a lot … Continue reading →
Today is an example of why you should be following @ItsAJackLife on Instagram. There were two possible shows today, Modern Homesteading or seed starting. I posted a video on Instagram asking for followers to tell me what they wanted and … Continue reading →
Episode-2351- Zach Weiss on Creating Resilient and Abundant Homesteads Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadZach Weiss is a protégé of revolutionary Austrian farmer Sepp Holzer, Zach is the first person to earn Holzer Practitioner certification directly from Sepp – through a rigorous two-year apprenticeship working on projects in North America and Europe. Blending a … Continue reading →
Darby grew up on his family’s seventh generation farm located in Central Indiana, just 25 miles outside of Indianapolis. However he never learned anything about the family business. He began his own farming enterprise in 2007 after reading “Pastured Poultry … Continue reading →
We just got a blessing. 6 inches of slow soaking rains over about 5 days, breaking a zero rain drought that began on May 30th. Our mid swale with all the hard catchment that funnels into it, therefore took on … Continue reading →
I should probably call this podcast “an accurate understanding of permaculture” but “A New Understanding of Permaculture” has a better ring to it. This show was in part inspired by a video by my good friend Curtis Stone called “What … Continue reading →
As many of you know I have become a huge fan of aquaponics over the past two years, but if you said, what is the best thing about aquaponics, okay, I’d say fish and cool water gardens. Though if you … Continue reading →
This is our core system with a heart of two 330 gallon recycled IBCs, running 2 ebb and flow beds, 8 soil based beds and one deep water bed. This system could be expanded to have dozens and dozens more … Continue reading →
