Use Pigs Natural Abilities When Digging a Garden
Gary L. Nelson explains how easy it is to use your homestead pigs natural tendency to dig to help plow your garden with little effort.
(via batesnursery)
Rainy day in the garden! (Taken with Instagram)
Toad Lily- Tricyrtis spp. in the garden finally bloomed! Only a few flowers, but they’re surprising for how late we transplanted her.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle- Barbara Kingsolver
I absolutely love this book. I read it back in high school and it was one of the catalysts that sparked my interest in a self-sustainable lifestyle. I also just love Barbara Kingsolver anyway. Great writer and author.
Self Sufficiency: How Much Land Does It Take to Feed Your Family?
Eatdrinkbetter.com- sustainable food for a healthy lifestyle
http://www.eatdrinkbetter.com/2011/08/21/self-sufficiency-how-much-land-to-feed-your-family/
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What do plants eat? They eat dead animals; that’s the problem. For me that was a horrifying realization. You want to be an organic gardener, of course, so you keep reading “Feed the soil, feed the soil, feed the soil…”
Alright. Well what does the soil want to eat? Well it wants manure, and it wants urine, and it wants blood meal and bone meal. And I…could not face that. I wanted my garden to be pure and death-free. It didn’t matter what I wanted: plants wanted those things; they needed those things to grow…
So, I sort played a moral hide-and-seek in my mind. I was left with this realization that I could eat an animal directly, or I could pass an animal through a plant and then eat it, but either way there were animals involved in this process. I could not remove animals from the equation.
I had to accept on some level that there was a cycle here, and it was very ancient, and ultimately very spiritual. It was really hard for me to accept the ‘death’ part of that equation. Years. It took me years to finally face it. But there wasn’t any way out of it if I was going to grow things.
"(Source: blogtalkradio.com, via apoplecticskeptic)
le Jardin médiévale de Bois Richeux
A fantastic Chateau garden in the Loire valley. The caretakers keep the garden in the style of a medieval garden, with woven raised planters made of sticks and wood.
