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Home of Organic Gardening: Where Compost Gardening Bears
Fruit. 2004-2006. The Organic Gardener. (Magazine article)
www.the-organic-gardener.com
This information-intensive website outlines everything needed
to create, grow, and maintain an organic garden. The Organic Gardener describes
tools, details weed clearing, and offers opinions on preferences for soil
improvements through composting. For the whole ‘shebang’ on composting, The
Organic Gardener walks you through not only kitchen composting but the entire
household, suggesting items for the compost such as vegetables, leftovers,
eggshells, newspapers, and cardboard. Food for the soil ideas and food for
sustainable thought ideas are definitely an integral part of their whole cycle.
This website of websites contains information on natural
insect sprays, natural pesticides, organic bug sprays (cinch, mealy, and spittle
bugs), safe pesticides, mosquito barriers, ant pesticides, indoor sprays, and
more. Prepare for some reading.
Lasagna Gardening is the Way to Go. November 2004.
Countryside & Small Stock Journal. 88(6):72. (Magazine article)
This cleverly titled article is actually a book review of
Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No
Tilling, No Weeding, and No Kidding!, by Patricia Lanza, who saves people time,
money, and backaches. The book simplifies constructing raised beds by offering
easy-to-follow schematics, to be used like a recipe. A Quill and Trowel Award
winner, Lasagna Gardening is a good investment for how-to tips on nontraditional
organic gardening with information on popular gardening methods for building up
soil fertility rather than depleting it.
On Dry Land: How to Plant a Drought-Resistant Garden.
Constance, C. July 27, 2007. Slate.
www.slate.com/id/2171232
This online magazine of news, politics, and culture combines
humor and insight with analyses of current events. In the gardening (all things
green) section, Constance takes the perspective of the soil and teaches us how
to look at life through the eyes of a plant root thereby learning the value of
humus, that decaying stuff that sits on the top of the soil. Constance asserts a
lesson in root physiology and implies that we can actually use plants and
wilting (wilting point in the early a.m.) to gauge the next time of watering.
How To Grow More Vegetables (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries,
Grains, and Other Crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You
Can Imagine. Jeavons, J. 2002. Ten Speed Press. Berkeley, California. pp. 240.
(Book)
Using sustainable Grow Biointensive® mini-farming techniques,
Jeavons enlightens us with details for revitalizing the soil while reaping the
benefits with an amazing array of vegetables and fruits, nuts, or berries. With
deep soil preparation, the use of humus, close plant spacing, as in nature,
synergistic planting of crop combinations, carbon-efficient crops, and
calorie-efficient crops, an intensive (Biointensive®) gardening book is born.
Planning, digging, planting, and weeding are treated as art form by Jeavons as
he describes the proper form of the various methods and the specific tools they
require. We found the book used for $3.00 plus shipping and handling for another
$3.00 and concluded it was a steal.
Renewable Business Profile: Hot Lips Pizza. Anonymous.
Tuesday, August 8, 2006. Sustainable Life. (Magazine article)
This little blurb from the Sustainable Life section of the
Portland Tribune touts the belief in local food ingredients by the
Portland-based pizza company, Hot Lips Pizza. The small company supports
renewable energy (buys 10 units of wind power every month from PGE) and uses
heat from their pizza ovens to warm their water. You can learn more about Hot
Lips Pizza’s business practices at hotlipspizza.com.
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