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Continue reading →: How to Make Herbal Lozenges
John Gallagher of learningherbs.com and mountainroseherbs.com walks us through making herbal lozenges. I was surprised at how easy this is.
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Continue reading →: Herbs – How to Make An Infusion
Great info by rickvanman on why and how to make an infusion. He stresses that you need to inform yourself well about particular herbs before you use them.
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Continue reading →: Hunting for Ramps (“Spring Leeks”)
Don King (no, not the boxing promoter) of TheMushroomHunter.com in Ohio shows us how find, recognize and harvest ramps. Cavan and Tom Patterson of Wild Purveyors, a wholesaler of wild edibles and organic produce sources in and around Pittsburg, emphasize harvesting ramps sustainably. They say that it takes seven years…
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Continue reading →: Vegetated Swales to Control Stormwater
Michael Gladnick and Deborah Seif talk about using vegetative swales to control and direct stormwater and to filter out particles. They are looking at a commercial or academic property not being used for food production, but the principles would be the same for productive land. <
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Continue reading →: Using Vinegar in Your Garden
Howard Garrett talks about how to use vinegar in your garden. He uses it heavily diluted in the water he uses to water plants and in concentrated form with orange oil and soap as an organic herbicide for weeds.
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Continue reading →: How to Make Seaweed Fertilizer
How to make seaweed fertilizer yourself rather than spend on expensive commercial seaweed fertilizer. In this video it’s made both with fresh whole seaweed and with sushi nori sheets, water and a hand blender. Babybabkas also mentions that she can also find dried whole seaweed in Chinatown. She uses the…
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Continue reading →: Farming Helping to Revitalize Depressed West Oakland, California
This video looks at the decline of West Oakland, California and how the community has started to bounce back in part through community and backyard gardening initiatives. The video looks specifically at the work that non-profit City Slicker Farms has been doing in the community.
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Continue reading →: Controlling Insects with Soaps and Oils
Skip Richter talks about using sprayed on soap and/or oils to minimize insect problems in your garden.
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Continue reading →: Growing and Selling Herbs
Donna Eaton of Cedar Springs Herb Farm in Harwich, Massachusetts talks about being an herbalist and herb producer and why it is important for us to have domestic sources for herbs. Cedar Spring Herb Farm from Sky Sabin on Vimeo.