Barakah Heritage Farm USA

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  • Barakah Heritage Farm version 6.0

    Barakah Heritage Farm version 6.0

    So here we are in Winnsboro, South Carolina, neck deep in the farm restart.

    This time around is a radically different farm model.

    We have moved to a VERY different climate in the deep south, after 50+ years of living in the northeast.  The plants are different, the growing season different, the soil is different.

     

    This is also our first time with a truly distributed farm model.  In the past we did have horses split between

    two nearby farms for a brief period, but that was the extent of spreading the work over multiple properties.  Version 6.0 has the rabbits, livestock dogs, gardens (and pets) at the farm office (also our home and undergoing a complete renovation) while the goats and horses occupy a nearby farm.  The farm has buildings but no fences, and the home office has fences but no farm buildings or established gardens.  What an interesting new challenge!

    I’m going to give a shout out to a software program.  If it weren’t for Blue, I don’t know that I could juggle all these projects.  I’m not getting any compensation, I just love the software that much.

    So here’s what is going on right now:

    Gardens are in various stages of being dug, edged, fertilized and planted.   We are again creating a biointensive permaculture system, but blending it in with general

    landscaping.  Plants are doing double duty at this property, looking nice AND feeding the family.  This season the focus is on producing our favorite heirloom

    varieties for personal use.  Any crop that we can buy relatively inexpensively in bulk at the grocery we skipped – onions, carrots, potatoes, garlic, winter squashes.  That means tomatoes, lots of greens like kale and chard and lettuces, and some basic herbs, all heirloom varieties for the unique flavors and colors.  I put in a pollinator garden with a water fountain the first season we were here, and fluffed it up this spring. It still needs a low water dish for the insects.

    Additionally we are planning out where key perennial food crops like hazlenuts and artichoke will go.

    The bunnies are not currently part of Bunnyville, so they moved to headquarters (such a fancy name for a modest beginning LOL) and are happily eating greens from our yard and producing wonderful fertilizer for the new gardens.

    We put poultry projects on hold, until we see if and how they might fit in with the new farm model.

    Over at the 250 acre farm, everything happened and is happening in stages.  The first step was basic shelter and containment, so wire mesh fencing beefed up with electric to hold goats and horses both.  Stalls were cleaned out, repaired and set up.  Once everyone had shelter and fencing that worked with or without power, then the bigger fencing projects and reopening the money-earning tours could start.  Horses looked like the quickest win, so a tour pen and then riding area came first, followed by the first of the rotation grazing areas and the runway, in a layout that meshes with the current land uses.  As I add each rotation, I’m also extending the perimeter to capture more land and eventually should have about 15 acres fenced for rotation and runways.  I’m reusing a lot of the fence equipment that traveled with us, and taking the best of what worked before.  T-posts and tape fencing for the perimeters, narrow tape and step ins for the rotations, and a very powerful DC energizer to keep the deer off the fences and the horses in.

     

    For the goats, it started with the 2 pens and shelters.  Next up was getting the tour area built.  Concurrently, I’m designing their rotation grazing areas, making decisions on what has the best browse, will hold them, and will be easy to move them to.  The goats must come back in at night because of predator pressure from local coyotes, black vultures and hawks.

    So, how does this all get done?  By setting aside a small block of time each day for each project – typically 1 to 2 hours, breaking the projects down into manageable steps, and keeping track of it all with due dates in the Blue software.  Many of the projects must happen concurrently so keep the farm financially on track, so small steps forward rather than big pushes on one project at a time makes the most sense.

    So that’s what’s happening these days at Barakah Heritage Farm.  We hope you will come see us if you are in the area, and stay tuned for the first goat kids of 2024!

    -Carrie and all the fur-kin

  • New location, new farm model

    New location, new farm model

    We have moved to Winnsboro, South Carolina!

    Home of the oldest working town clock, the South Carolina Railroad Museum, the Fairfield County Historical Museum and near Carolina Adventure World.

    As someone who has lived her entire life in the northeast USA, this is like moving to another planet.  There is almost no snow!  Winter feels like spring.  Plants have begun growing in February.  And summers are hot, as in HOT.   We are trying a new approach down here, spreading our farm components across multiple locations, and adapting everything for this new climate.

    For now, Bunnyville is on hold.  The bunnies are happily settled at headquarters.  We have stopped poultry, for the time being.

    We are setting up garden beds and figuring out how to apply biointensive and permaculture in this sandy clay soil of zone 8a.  Ants are a thing, big mounds of ants that bite hard.  The annual seed inventory is done, and we have selected the seeds we think make the most sense for the first planting.  We get 2 or 3 growing seasons here, which is amazing!

    The horses and goats are at a farm near headquarters (headquarters sounds like a mighty fancy label for our humble cottage and beginning gardens).  We have not published the farm location for the privacy of the farm owner and for animal security.  We provide it when folks come to purchase livestock or book an AirBnB Animal Experience with us.

    Let the adventures and learning begin!

     

    Farm is within 5 miles of the pinned map location (hidden for privacy & animal security)

  • Edible Cities: Urban Permaculture for Gardens, Balconies, Rooftops, and Beyond

    Edible Cities: Urban Permaculture for Gardens, Balconies, Rooftops, and Beyond

    This entry is in the series Best Urban Gardening Books

    Want to grow food but have nothing larger than a balcony, windowsill, or a piece of wall? No problem! This is a gardening book with a difference. It will help you to grow your own fruit, vegetables, herbs, and even mushrooms in small spaces in the most ecological way possible. Edible Cities shows you why…;

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    Want to grow food but have nothing larger than a balcony, windowsill, or a piece of wall? No problem! This is a gardening book with a difference. It will help you to grow your own fruit, vegetables, herbs, and even mushrooms in small spaces in the most ecological way possible. Edible Cities shows you why the urban landscape can be a great place for permaculture. Discover inside:

    • Principles of permaculture

    • Worldwide examples of urban gardening projects

    • Ideas for flats and balconies

    • Green roofs

    • Vertical gardening and urban beekeeping

    • Guerrilla gardening and successful community projects

    • Illustrated practical techniques with clear instructions

    • Preface and contributions by Sepp Holzer

    • Urban case studies from cities all over the world.

    Packed with inspiration and practical, fully illustrated ideas, discover how people around the world are inventing new growing opportunities and making them a reality with few resources and a lot of creativity. Find out how you, too, can plan and create your own urban growing paradise.

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  • The Art of Butterfly Gardening: How to Make Your Backyard into a Beautiful Home for Butterflies

    The Art of Butterfly Gardening: How to Make Your Backyard into a Beautiful Home for Butterflies

    Butterfly gardening is the practice of attracting beautiful butterflies to your garden by growing common plants and flowers that they use for food and nectar. This fun and wonderfully simple activity will bring color, light, and beauty to your garden and home. With the relaxing and rewarding qualities of this outdoor hobby, it’s not hard…;

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    Butterfly gardening is the practice of attracting beautiful butterflies to your garden by growing common plants and flowers that they use for food and nectar. This fun and wonderfully simple activity will bring color, light, and beauty to your garden and home. With the relaxing and rewarding qualities of this outdoor hobby, it’s not hard to see why it’s sweeping the nation and growing in popularity.

    Mathew Tekulsky’s The Butterfly Garden is a complete, step-by-step guide to gardening for butterflies. You’ll learn about:

    • The butterfly life cycle, habitats, and behaviors
    • Choosing and obtaining food and nectar sources
    • Designing your garden
    • Options for country, suburban, and city gardens
    • Fifty common garden butterflies and the plants they like
    • Butterfly observation and conservation

    This guide will teach you everything you need to get started—whether you’re a suburban resident, the owner of a small urban garden, an apartment dweller, or a keeper of a country estate, you can enjoy frequent butterfly visits to your garden or window box. The key, Tekulsky believes, is learning some basic knowledge of butterfly characteristics and behavior and knowing how to meet the needs of the butterfly species most common in your neighborhood.

    Not only is butterfly gardening one of the easiest ways to enjoy these enchanting creatures, but it’s also a wonderful way to help conserve natural butterfly populations for generations to come. Learn how to create your own beautiful butterfly garden today!

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  • Gardening: Gardening For Beginners: A beginners guide to organic vegetable gardening, beginners gardening (gardening for beginners, Gardening, Vegetables, marajuana, Permaculture)

    Gardening: Gardening For Beginners: A beginners guide to organic vegetable gardening, beginners gardening (gardening for beginners, Gardening, Vegetables, marajuana, Permaculture)

    ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK AND AUDIO BOOK!!!WANT TO LEARN HOW TO GROW AN AMAZING VEGETABLE GARDEN?Perfect, keep reading and you will learn how it is done.>Lets start the right way!By deciding to grow your own organic vegetables it enables you to do several things:Provide fresh vegetables to your loved ones.Learn a life skill which you…;

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    WANT TO LEARN HOW TO GROW AN AMAZING VEGETABLE GARDEN?

    Perfect, keep reading and you will learn how it is done.

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    Lets start the right way!

    By deciding to grow your own organic vegetables it enables you to do several things:

    1. Provide fresh vegetables to your loved ones.
    2. Learn a life skill which you can pass onto your children
    3. Relieve yourself of any worry that you will be eating pecticides
    4. Save money

    If you didn’t already know, if you buy your food from the store you’re probably not sure what’s been added.  That is a huge problem!  You want to know exactly what you are putting in your body.

    By growing your own vegetable you are eating fresh, clean, healthy food which has come straight from your own back garden,  there is nothing which you have to worry about.

    As well as freshness you want to be able to give your children a life skill which they can take with them throughout their life.  By them knowing how to garden, they will have one of the most important skills they can aquire.  No need to worry when there’s a food crisis, you will be picking your food from your garden.

    You will also be more free, and have a better bank balance.

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    When you start your gardening you will have tasks which you may not understand.  Luckily I will help you along your journey and when you’re finished you will have a garden which you will be proud of. 🙂

    Moreover, organic, fresh vegetables truly taste so much better.

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    I know your curious, so here is some of the things you will learn

    • Selecting The Perfect Location
    • How To Achieve Healthy Soil
    • Which Tools and Plants Are Right?
    • The 7 Top Vegetables To Plant Organically
    • Expert Organic Vegetable Gardening Tips For Beginners
    • Common Organic Vegetable Gardening Mistakes To Avoid

    Sound Good?

    Then I think this book is for you.

    GARDENING ALLOWS YOU TO SAVE MONEY AND EAT HEALTHIER!

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  • Barakah Heritage Farm garden adventures 2020 – garden layout + early spring cold-loving plants

    Barakah Heritage Farm garden adventures 2020 – garden layout + early spring cold-loving plants

    We got the main veggie garden finished, except for one bed that will be double dug and composted this summer for fall crops.  Now that this garden is done, we can start planning and then planting.  (We will finish and plant the commercial garden and the potato/livestock feed garden in a week or so.

    We spend at least as much time planning the garden as we do actually planting, to make sure we get the best yields for our work, God willing.  Here are the steps that go into planning the garden for the year.  If this was a CSA or market garden, there would be even more planning involved to make sure enough was produced at all times to meet customer demand.  For us, because the garden is for our own use plus some impulse purchases by farm guests, we can be just a bit more relaxed this year.

    Our first step was to take a seed inventory, and go shopping to fill in any gaps.  We aren’t planting everything that we like to grow, just what the current bed space and our time will allow.  We keep a wish list of new plants to add each year.

    Make planning index cards, one per plant type.  Tomatoes get multiple cards because I like to space the tomatoes out, one per bed, around the edges of the garden to trellis them on the fence.  The cards include whether it is an early plant (E), normal, or late season (F for fall), whether it gets planted in succession (R for repeat), what other plants it likes, time to germination and harvest and notes about how it grew in previous years.  On the back of the card we mark what bed it is going in, at the end of the planning process.
    Draw out a master diagram of the garden beds.  If you don’t have a big whiteboard, you can tape paper together, or even draw with chalk on the driveway.
    Start laying cards out on the beds, moving them around to allow for preferred neighbors and also to avoid planting in the same spot as last year (this reduces disease and pests).  We also keep the tastiest plants away from the perimeter fence to (God willing) avoid tempting the goats.

    When all the cards are allocated to beds,  snap pics of each bed to save for planting and for next year’s planning.  Tip:  save the pics in your phone.  When you begin planting, you can pull up the pics for a handy planting diagram.

    This year’s early season crops include:

    • Lettuce
    • Radishes
    • Garlic
    • Onions
    • Carrots
    • Spinach
    • Turnip
    • Kale
    • Cilantro/Coriander
    • Cabbage

    For the actual planting, just follow the directions on each seed packet, or your notes on your handy cards if you are seed saving.  We actually cut the spacing roughly in half but no smaller than the expected size of the adult plant, and reduced the number of seeds, per the techniques of Square Foot Gardening, but without the expense and precise measurements of that technique.  Not sure if SFG is for you?  Here’s a balanced look at the pros and cons.

    So, the garden is planted and the rows labeled with a pink paint pen on small rocks.  Our next project, and next post, will be the commercial and potato/livestock gardens, God willing.

    Until then, happy planning and planting!  Stay warm!

  • Gardening: Raised Bed Gardening: Vegetable and Flower Growing Made Easy! (Permaculture, agriculture, vegetable garden, urban garden, perennial vegetables, off the grid, homesteading)

    Gardening: Raised Bed Gardening: Vegetable and Flower Growing Made Easy! (Permaculture, agriculture, vegetable garden, urban garden, perennial vegetables, off the grid, homesteading)

    Grow Vegetables and Flowers Using Raised Bed Gardening Techniques!***Read this book for FREE on Kindle Unlimited – Download Now!***Can you grow veggies and flowers at home in the backyard? How difficult is it to build a raised bed garden?When you download Raised Bed Gardening, you’ll find out exactly what is involved in creating a raised…;

    Grow Vegetables and Flowers Using Raised Bed Gardening Techniques!

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    Can you grow veggies and flowers at home in the backyard? How difficult is it to build a raised bed garden?

    When you download Raised Bed Gardening, you’ll find out exactly what is involved in creating a raised garden that can provide you with fresh veggies or flowers for years to come. It also lists the different types of beds and some of the best soil practices that you can use in your garden.

    How do you get started? What equipment do you need? Is it difficult? What if you don’t have a green thumb?

    Raised Bed Gardening explains the pros and cons of raised bed gardening. It also describes various basic gardening tips.
    When you download this book, you’ll also learn about the cost advantage, health benefits, and rewards that organic gardens have to offer.

    Download Raised Bed Gardening! now, and start growing today!

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  • Barakah Heritage Farm garden adventures 2020 – planning for seed saving

    Barakah Heritage Farm garden adventures 2020 – planning for seed saving

    Well, it’s garden planning time.

    For me (the wifey half of our farming duo) I find garden planning a mixture of fun and daunting details.

    This year, with the current world events, we decided to triple our main garden, in addition to the two additional gardens already under construction over the winter.  (More on beds and bed planning in another post.)  We sat down, made our seed list, checked our inventory and went seed shopping.  After seeing the prices per packet, and watching events unfolding, it is seeming wise to get more serious about seed saving this year.

    The beautiful chaos of garden construction

    I’ll back up a few steps and explain why we haven’t bothered with much seed saving in previous years.  To make any farm profitable, you have to include your labor (time x hourly rate) in the calculations.  Frankly, the cost of the labor to save seeds was not profitable, not when others are doing a more efficient and professional job of producing seeds that we can easily order or buy in the store.   This year, for the first time, the global uncertainties are making us take a second look at that labor – if you cannot find seeds at all then the labor cost becomes irrelevant.  We hope to at least save some core basics, God willing, and still support heirloom seed businesses for the rest of our seed needs.

    So, from my previous dabblings in seed saving, and I truly  mean dabbling, as most success was with lettuce and marigolds (I challenge you to fail at marigolds), I do remember that in order to save seeds in the fall, you need to plan before you ever plant.

    Here are my top tips for planning, and some great websites with more details:

    Tip 1:  Only plant open-pollinated varieties.  Seeds from hybrids (labeled F1) will not breed true.  Seeds from GMO seeds are illegal to save and most likely won’t sprout or breed true.

    Tip 2:  Plants will cross pollinate if they belong to the same family.  Squashes are notorious for this.  If you want to save seeds from more than one variety in a family, for example, summer squash and pitty pat squash, you can select varieties that bloom at different times, or you can space your garden beds out to separate the plants and minimize cross pollination.

    Tip 3:  Plant enough plants to meet your needs plus some extra to allow to mature for seed collection.

    Tip 4:  If this is your first time gardening, consider planning different types and locations of beds, and trying different plant varieties, to see what best suits your land.  You may need extra seed, to allow for experiments and for failed crops.

    Here are some great websites to get you started:

    https://extension.umn.edu/planting-and-growing-guides/saving-vegetable-seeds

    https://www.seedsavers.org/how-to-save-seeds

    https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/save-vegetable-seeds-backyard-zmaz77zsch

    https://www.almanac.com/content/start-saving-those-vegetable-seeds

    https://modernfarmer.com/2018/07/seed-saving-101-10-things-to-know-if-you-want-to-start-saving-seeds/

    Happy planning!

  • The Permaculture Transition Manual: A Comprehensive Guide to Resilient Living

    The Permaculture Transition Manual: A Comprehensive Guide to Resilient Living

    This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Best Suburban Growing Books

    Caught between climate change and a fossil fuel-driven economy that demands ever more growth, the world faces a great transition—by design or disaster—away from fossil fuels to a less energy intensive future.But what proven tools are available to aid in making a successful, deliberate transition to a resilient, sustainable future?For the first time, the power…;

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    Caught between climate change and a fossil fuel-driven economy that demands ever more growth, the world faces a great transition—by design or disaster—away from fossil fuels to a less energy intensive future.

    But what proven tools are available to aid in making a successful, deliberate transition to a resilient, sustainable future?

    For the first time, the power of permaculture design has been brought to bear on the great transition problem. In the process, acclaimed permaculture teacher and designer Ross Mars has distilled his considerable knowledge into the ultimate resource for resilient living.

    The Permaculture Transition Manual is packed with information on permaculture design principles, soil building, nutrient-dense food growing, including top plant and tree selections for all climatic zones. Coverage extends to rainwater harvesting and irrigation, human waste management, and strategies for rural properties plus a unique focus on applying permaculture to small urban spaces for decluttering and efficient food growing. Also covered are hand tools, food preservation, energy production, and low-carbon housing and a plethora of nearly forgotten skills such as soap making, basket weaving, seed saving, and rope and candle making, and more.

    On the desert island of a world in decline this is the one-stop guide to vibrant, resilient living you’ll want to take with you.

    Ross Mars is a scientist with a PhD in Environmental Science, entrepreneur and highly-regarded permaculture teacher and designer. Author of The Basics of Permaculture Design, he manages Candlelight Farm, a permaculture demonstration site and training center in Western Australia.

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  • Adding an income garden at Barakah Heritage Farm

    No, we aren’t planting money trees, or even money plants.

    What we ARE doing is looking at ways to earn some side income from small gardens.

    Barakah Heritage Farm hosts a fair number of visitors each year via our horse programs, the campsites and glamping loft and the goat experience.  As the area in front of the main barn is just a big plain yard, we were looking for something to add some curb appeal and possibly trigger some impulse buys to add to the farm income.  In previous seasons, guests have admired the vegetable garden, and we often gifted folks with some excess produce to take home.  So we thought perhaps some type of garden product could dress up the yard and generate some income.

     

    We looked at 3 main options:  vegetables, flowers, and herbs.  The first step was to do online research and find out which of these are most popular in farm markets and roadside stands and grocery stores.  Here are 3 favorite resources:

    Ten Most Profitable Herbs To Grow

    Ten Most Profitable Cut Flowers For Small Growers

    Our Farmer’s Market Best Sellers

    Generally, our criteria were:  inexpensive to plant,  annuals or easily-transplanted perennials (all our business models are designed to be portable), minimal care to thrive,  tolerate our climate, be visually appealing, and mesh with our mission of heirloom plants.  Beyond that, the plant had to be well-ranked for popularity with a good history of selling at farm markets.  Finally, they had to be plants that would be popular with our demographic (hikers/campers, horsewomen, animal lovers).

    Here is our list, by category:

    Herbs:  basil, chives, cilantro, parsley, catnip (many folks have pet cats), sage, dill.

    Edible flowers:  viola, nasturtium, calendula

    Cut flowers:  zinnia, astor, clary sage, sunflower, carnation, delphinium, heather, baby’s breath 

    Vegetables:  tomatoes, cucumber, possible swiss chard and/or kale

    We will  narrow this down further closer to planting time.  In general, we will choose heirloom varieties that are unusual and colorful, such as purple tomatoes and lemon cucumbers.

    We have started the garden beds, one pictured here and another around the side of the barn.

    Below are some additional links we found useful:

    https://www.hobbyfarms.com/how-to-harvest-and-pack-herbs-f…/ https://www.johnnyseeds.com/…/her…/library-herbs-profit.html https://www.sunset.com/garden/flowers-plants/bouquet-flowers

    https://www.gardeners.com/how-to/cutting-garden/5011.html

    https://www.thespruce.com/best-cut-flower-varieties-4152956

  • Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days

    Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days

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    The Low-Tech, No-Grow-Lights Approach to Abundant Harvest Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers good news: with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps, and no greenhouse. Longtime gardener Peter Burke was…;

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    The Low-Tech, No-Grow-Lights Approach to Abundant Harvest

    Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers good news: with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps, and no greenhouse.

    Longtime gardener Peter Burke was tired of the growing season ending with the first frost, but due to his busy work schedule and family life, didn’t have the time or interest in high-input grow lights or greenhouses. Most techniques for growing what are commonly referred to as “microgreens” left him feeling overwhelmed and uninterested. There had to be a simpler way to grow greens for his family indoors. After some research and diligent experimenting, Burke discovered he was right―there was a way! And it was even easier than he ever could have hoped, and the greens more nutrient packed. He didn’t even need a south-facing window, and he already had most of the needed supplies just sitting in his pantry. The result: healthy, homegrown salad greens at a fraction of the cost of buying them at the market. The secret: start them in the dark.

    Growing “Soil Sprouts”―Burke’s own descriptive term for sprouted seeds grown in soil as opposed to in jars―employs a method that encourages a long stem without expansive roots, and provides delicious salad greens in just seven to ten days, way earlier than any other method, with much less work. Indeed, of all the ways to grow immature greens, this is the easiest and most productive technique. Forget about grow lights and heat lamps! This book is a revolutionary and inviting guide for both first-time and experienced gardeners in rural or urban environments. All you need is a windowsill or two. In fact, Burke has grown up to six pounds of greens per day using just the windowsills in his kitchen! Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers detailed step-by-step instructions to mastering this method (hint: it’s impossible not to succeed, it’s so easy!), tools and accessories to have on hand, seeds and greens varieties, soil and compost, trays and planters, shelving, harvest and storage, recipes, scaling up to serve local markets, and much more.

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  • How To Grow Vegetables Without Losing Your Mind

    How To Grow Vegetables Without Losing Your Mind

    Want to grow your own food, but think you don’t have enough time, energy or space? How To Grow Vegetables Without Losing Your Mind (Formerly titled Weird Gardening): will bust the myths that vegetable gardening requires tons of space, time and labor. This book, written by an experienced urban gardener, shows you step by step…;

    Want to grow your own food, but think you don’t have enough time, energy or space? How To Grow Vegetables Without Losing Your Mind (Formerly titled Weird Gardening): will bust the myths that vegetable gardening requires tons of space, time and labor. This book, written by an experienced urban gardener, shows you step by step how to start a vegetable garden, from building rich beds to preserving your harvest. In it, you will learn: how to build a new, nutrient-rich bed from scratch at zero cost; the most effective non-chemical methods for dealing with pests; the best way to start your plants from seed; and how to use every square foot of your yard or patio to its full advantage. There is even a chapter on container gardening for readers who do not have a yard. How would you like a garden that requires little weeding, little watering, and little to no commercial fertilizer? How To Grow Vegetables Without Losing Your Mind shows you how to do all that, and much more. If you are ready to save money on groceries, get more nutrients into your diet, or simply learn to be more self-sufficient – without spending all of your precious free time on a frustrating, high-maintenance hobby – you don’t want to miss what this book has for you!

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  • Reap, Sow, Grow: I reap what I sow and grow in the process.

    Reap, Sow, Grow: I reap what I sow and grow in the process.

    New to traveling distant lands, Déva writes about his journey around the globe. As a conscious lyricist, yoga teacher and permaculture designer, he explores his outer limits while expanding his inner world. Déva ventures out to perform at festivals, host yoga retreats, teach permaculture workshops, and visit ecovillages. What he discovers will enlighten that discovery…;

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    Gardening: Urban Gardening: Growing Vegetables and Fruit in Heavily Populated Areas (gardening, home garden, horticulture, garden, landscape, plants, raised garden)

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  • Growing Vegetables with a Smile (Gardening with a Smile, Book 1)

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  • Gardening: Vertical Gardening! Grow Up! (Botanical, home garden, horticulture, garden, gardening, plants, raised garden)

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  • Food from Dryland Gardens: An Ecological, Nutritional and Social Approach to Small-Scale Household Food Production

    Food from Dryland Gardens: An Ecological, Nutritional and Social Approach to Small-Scale Household Food Production

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  • Mastering the Growing Edge: Plants as Tools for Garden Creation

    Mastering the Growing Edge: Plants as Tools for Garden Creation

    For those who are interested in more efficient, ecologically friendly gardens, or simply curious what the wide world of plants can offer us going into the future. Mastering the Growing Edge is a cutting edge work that broadens our view of garden tools and how easily we and nature can work together to create lush,…;

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    For those who are interested in more efficient, ecologically friendly gardens, or simply curious what the wide world of plants can offer us going into the future. Mastering the Growing Edge is a cutting edge work that broadens our view of garden tools and how easily we and nature can work together to create lush, productive gardens. The main focus is ten plants the author, Luke Simon, has found best represent the functions most garden plants offer including -weed exclusion -on-site mulch and fertilizer -conversion from lawn to garden while keeping an eye for beauty, and edible plant landscaping. While Luke enters the scene from the angle of permaculture, food forests, and perennial gardens which he keeps in mind through the work, this book has application for any gardener from perennial ornamentals to annual vegetables. Those who have read Luke’s earlier work PASSIVE Gardening will find many additions here that continue to show the elegant, practical tools we can discover in healthy ecology.

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  • Dig Less Gardening: For Soils-Plants Mind Body Spirit Earth Trilogy of Health permaculture style no-dig, no-till organic chemical weed free lasagna sheet composting manual

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  • Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre

    Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre

    Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family’s food on just a quarter acre—and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. Even if you have never been a farmer or…;

    Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family’s food on just a quarter acre—and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. Even if you have never been a farmer or a gardener, this book covers everything you need to know to get started: buying and saving seeds, starting seedlings, establishing raised beds, soil fertility practices, composting, dealing with pest and disease problems, crop rotation, farm planning, and much more. Because self-suf?ciency is the objective, subjects such as raising backyard chickens and home canning are also covered along with numerous methods for keeping costs down and production high. Materials, tools, and techniques are detailed with photographs, tables, diagrams, and illustrations.

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