#regenerative gardening

[balkanradfem]

Gardening makes me feel so powerful. I can, with my own hands and careful usage of my brain, affect the environment so an area is populated by plants that I desire to be there, which will give me so much food I will be safe and secure for the entire year? I can change an area so it feeds me? By putting my hands in the soil and knowing how to anticipate the rain and where the roots are likely to grow and how long it takes to get a seed to fruition? I can do this with minimal effort and by adding organic matter to an area that will stop all other plants from growing, and fertilize my plants, so only my plants succeed? I can, on top of that, have all kinds of flowers growing in it, making it beautiful to me and helping all kinds of little bugs and critters have a home? I can do it in a way that makes the land even more fertile and healthy? And I'm not some sort of a deity?

Being able to control an area of land and make it into what you need to survive is powerful. Seeing it in your head and then watching it happen by the work of your own two hands is invigorating. Some things we cannot change. But we can change the area immediately around us so it both feeds us, and become beautiful and rich to us.

[tielan]

Sometimes people forget that hippies were also the boomer generation. Sure, many hippies went staid and became 'Okay Boomers', but no small number of them just went underground, or turned a little weird.

Now that they're older and DGAF and seeing what they and their generation have made of the world, those former-hippies are growing back into their weirdness. Welcome them and don't forget that they have experiences to teach us "younger gens" too!

Mom sent me a facebook link to a PBS news hour post about how the anti-lawn movement is growing. The vast majority of the comments on it were stuff like this:

Most people are on our side here, even the so-called "boomers." We just have to be spreading ecological knowledge and practical means of creating useful habitat in back yards! Educate! Protect! Resist!

[ecogreenlivingessentials]

Sustainable Gardening: How to Grow a Thriving, Eco-Friendly Garden

Gardening is a rewarding way to connect with nature, grow your own food, and create a beautiful outdoor space. However, traditional gardening methods can sometimes be wasteful, relying on excessive water, synthetic fertilizers, and harmful pesticides. Sustainable gardening focuses on working with nature to create a self-sustaining, environmentally friendly garden that conserves resources,…

[ewspconsultancy]

Regenerative Gardening and Regenerative Agriculture

In order to move towards a positive future for all, we need to embrace a regenerative rather than an extractive mindset. Working with cyclical systems, working with nature, we need to remember the importance of giving back, keeping those cycles turning rather than simply taking all that we can get. Regenerative gardening and farming go beyond food production that can endure. They emphasise the…

[divine-nonchalance]

Making Desert Land Fertile with Water Bunds

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

Tell us more about planting strawberry and mint together pls

Ok so Mint and Strawberries are both very aggressive plants (basically all Herbs are very aggressive, Thyme, Oregano, and Sage are similar) but many of them produce all kinds of complicated chemicals that can inhibit the growth of other plants that can essentially neutralize eachother and other plants thus mellowing everything out, you can use plants to Control other plants, for example Oregano is good at Controlling grass, so If you want to keep grass out of your Flower Beds you can plant an Oregano hedge and periodically trim it and use the Trimmings as fertilizer this is called Chop and Drop it's an important principle of Permaculture

[soil-is-alive]

Anthurium (Laceleaf) Plants 🪴

She used to spend hours pulling weeds to care for these flowers—soil that was compacted, dry, and eroding made it a constant struggle❗️

We decided to try something different: cardboard and grass clippings 📦🌿 It keeps the weeds down, holds in moisture, and improves the soil as it breaks down ♻️

✔️ No more disturbing the topsoil when weeding.

✔️ Less watering, thanks to better moisture retention.

✔️ Softer, healthier soil that’s slowly rebuilding itself.

Before laying the cardboard, we made sure to weed around the plants, setting them up for success 🌞 While this process will need to be repeated as it breaks down, it’s a simple, stress-free solution—and now she doesn’t have to worry about weeds taking over the garden anymore 🥳✨️

When she asked, “What’s going to happen to the cardboard?” and I explained it would break down and turn to soil, she was blown away 🎉

I'm so happy to have been able to spread a little life into our neighbor's soils. Simple changes like this can make a huge difference—for the plants, for the soil, for the future 🌍🌟

[drakey-wakey]

This article perfectly captures my frustrations with looking into native plants. there are just so few of them that aren't imported and they're not sold locally usually which is ridiculous

lets start planting native plants again yall

[inthecityofgoodabode]

November & December 2024: The Last Of The First & The First Of The Last

Frosted Echinacea:

I forgot to mention in my previous post that the gravy my queen made for the turkey & dressing was amazing. She used a base of homemade chicken broth & store-bought turkey broth and infused it with homegrown lemongrass & lemon thyme. You'd think that would make the gravy lemony but, instead, it just added a nice brightness:

Sunday's sweet potato harvest. This is what two roughly five gallon sized pots can produce so definitely a productive crop if you are growing in a small space like an apartment balcony. As a bonus, the leaves are edible (raw or sauteed like spinach) and, though they aren't prolific bloomers, their blossoms are similar to morning glories. This year's plants had beautiful pale purple flowers with deep purple veining. We planted Beauregard starts but, looking at the coloration of some of the tubers, I think we had some volunteers from previous years:

I drove around the neighborhood collecting bagged leaves on Friday & Saturday.

We are storing some to make leaf mold with. That will take time & moisture. I imagine by Spring time some of the bags will have broken down sufficiently:

The rest was spread around the front & back garden beds as cold weather protection that will eventually break down to amend the soil & build up the soil level. We're basically trying to emulate what trees do in the forest. It is a kind of regenerative agriculture for the home gardener:

This would have been a great shot (well, great to me anyway) if only that white-throated sparrow had cooperated. There was this strand of light just to the left of that shadow that would have made the white & yellow on its head shine but it either had its head turned the wrong way in the light or the right way but in the shadows. This was the best out of the bunch that I took. I still like the lines & colors in the photo:

[learndirt]

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[phototagebuch]

23.4.2024: Regentropfen auf Ginkgoblatt

[groundvalue]

Hello Fellow Growers

My name is Bernie and I believe in a future world where small local growers will be serving a significant percentage of food needed by our community.

But in order for that to happen we need to make this economically viable for them to do so. This post is the start or our journey.

Do you also believe?

[smell-the-dirt]

Last month's Seedy Saturday event was a resounding success, with about a dozen vendors and half a dozen presenters/workshop instructors sharing their wealth of gardening knowledge with members of my community. Notable items included the community's seed library, a vendor of permaculture crops (pictured above are skirret, Chinese artichoke, and oca), and seeds from various producers around the region. The lecture centered around using seaweed as a fertilizer was most popular- the lecture hall even ran out of seats!

For more information on Seedy Saturday events, please visit https://seeds.ca/Seedy-Saturday/.

[botanisiertrommel]

8.4.2023: Verregnete Ostern!

[lexapenndari]

Today's garden tour ...

The scallopini is sprouting 🌱 !!!

It's happening

I see it 👀

#Life