The best gardening & homesteading channels on Youtube
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Living Web Farms is where hands on learning comes to life about organic food production and innovative knowledge for sustainable agriculture from the world’s top experts.
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Pat Battle shares was to extend your growing season with ingenuitive methods that will keep you eating fresh produce right through winter and into spring. Get tips that Pat has honed through years of winter gardening and season extension variations. Learn about what to use, when to use it and what to plant that will…
Join Jeff Poppen, ‘the Barefoot Farmer’ for day two of this biodynamics intensive based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner. Amy Hamilton and Craig Ciska also share their experience and wisdom in this workshop. Biodynamics includes subtle yet powerful methods that work with the synergy and dynamics of nature to cultivate more dynamically alive soils…
This is Eliot Coleman’s presentation at the Asheville Mother Earth News Fair in April of 2016. Eliot is a celebrated farming expert encouraging people and communities to choose locally grown organic food. He helped pioneer the movement with his first book “The New Organic Grower” published over 20 years ago. He continues leading the way,…
Soil scientist, Ea Murphy teaches us about whole soil fertility and how to build soil over time for healthier plants and microbial communities. Part 2 focuses on putting soil building methods into practice in your own garden/farm. Her book “Whole Soil Fertility” goes into detail giving us ways to measure and track our soil’s progress…
Join Jeff Poppen, ‘the Barefoot Farmer’ for day one of this two day biodynamics intensive based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner. Amy Hamilton and Craig Ciska also share their experience and wisdom in this workshop. Biodynamics includes subtle yet powerful methods that work with the synergy and dynamics of nature to cultivate more dynamically…
Learn about beginning steps of beekeeping and see if you are ready to pursue this unique passion. Find out what is involved to manage your own hives and take care of bees. Michelle Carter discusses the amazing connection she has with her bees and talks about the practical and spiritual side of being a beekeeper.…
Soil scientist, Ea Murphy teaches us about whole soil fertility and how to build soil over time for healthier plants and microbial communities. Her book “Whole Soil Fertility” goes into detail giving us ways to measure and track our soil’s progress as we build life. Reap healthy harvests and enjoy the many benefits of cultivating…
See the abundance of insect activity on the extrafloral nectaries growing on cover crops. Extrafloral nectaries are nectar-secreting glands not involved in pollination produced in at least 66 plant families. The “EFNs” grow on their leaves, shoots, or in the case of cowpeas, at the juncture of the pod and the stem. The sugar and…
COMPLETE UNCUT FOOTAGE Explore the possibilities of no till and low till methods in the garden and greenhouse with Pat Battle and a special visit by John Morrison. John brought special equipment being utilized at Living Web Farms to implement methods that are low impact on the soil while still producing high yields. From cover…
COMPLETE UNCUT FOOTAGE The wide array of delicious vegetables that are part of the brassica family are among the finest foods to grow and eat to sustain a healthy diet year round. Pat Battle offers experience based insights and expert advice on successful brassica production in the garden, hoop house and green house. Find out…
Growing vegetables can be a year round activity with proper hoop house management. Pat Battle shares the joy of cultivating fresh food during winter and gives us insight regarding what to plant and how to keep it thriving through the cold days and nights with limited sun. Pat also shares things to plant that will…
Catch the excitement of making fermented foods at home. Learn the basic processes that will help you find creative ways to ferment many different things. Boost your gut health and add tantalizing flavors to your everyday dishes by pairing them with ferments of all kinds. Meredith Leigh and Pat Battle give us insights and ideas…
COMPLETE UNCUT FOOTAGE Join Edmund Frost of Manager of Twin Oaks Farm and a seed grower and breeder for Common Wealth Seeds in Louisa county Virginia. He talks about the importance of saving seeds, best practices for harvesting, storage and more. His farm focuses on breeding disease resistant cucurbit seed and produce crops (cucumber, melon,…
COMPLETE UNCUT FOOTAGE Learn the basic principles of smoking and how smokehouse design works for producing the desired effects when preparing meats, vegetables, cheeses, etc. Then we visit the smokehouse we just built at the North Mills River Living Web Farm utilizing a simple design you can implement and/or adapt to your own farm or…
Author and food preserver extraordinaire, Nan Chase (books Eat Your Yard and Drink the Harvest) shares a power-packed workshop on canning to get even beginners started successfully keeping more of summer’s bounty for year-round enjoyment. Learn the equipment you need, best practices and insider tricks to help streamline the process of making the most of…
COMPLETE UNCUT FOOTAGE Join renowned author Michael Phillips on day two of his “Successful Biological Orcharding” workshop where we go out to visit Pat Tompkins and her organic apple orchard that she started nearly 30 years before. Glean insights from both Michael and Pat as they provide valuable information and also learn from each other…
COMPLETE UNCUT FOOTAGE – FINAL PARTS Get the basics of growing mushrooms with Patryk Battle joined by Greg Carter of Deep Woods Mushrooms. Learn how to grow in a variety of ways to achieve a steady mushroom harvest for you and your family. Discover ways to enrich fertility with mushrooms in relationship with fruit trees…
COMPLETE UNCUT FOOTAGE – FINAL PARTS Conservation Agronomist, Ray Archuleta with the National Resources Conservation Service joins David Brandt of Walnut Creek Seeds for a workshop on soil and the use of diverse cover crops to build life and fertility in the soil. Produce abundant yields while implementing the best organic and sustainable methods of…
COMPLETE UNCUT FOOTAGE – FINAL PARTS Renowned holistic orchardist and author Michael Phillips shared his deep body of knowledge on how to perform successful biological orcharding for apples and other fruiting trees. His books, “The Apple Grower” and “The Holistic Orchard” go into complete detail on this intriguing topic that examines expanding ways to emulate…
COMPLETE UNCUT FOOTAGE – FINAL PARTS Join us as organic orchard consultant, Andrew Goodheart Brown and pomology expert and Professor Emeritus of Cornell University, Bob Andersen teach us how to rejuvenate an old orchard. Find practical ways to increase yield, health and vitality of even very old fruiting trees to bring them back into production…
Join ethnobotanist, Marc Williams and forager extraordinaire, Natalie Bogwalker on this adventure as we discover the wild foods around us in the fields and forest edge. Learn an architecture of understanding plants based on their families and common traits to help expedite a working knowledge of the plant diversity around us. Marc is carrying on…
Explore the forest and learn to identify edible wild plants and mushrooms with naturalist, herbalist and storyteller, Doug Elliott along with mushroom expert Ken Crouse of Peaceful Valley Farm. Doug shares songs, folklore and old mountain wisdom of native plant uses as well as handed down humorous tales. Ken Crouse is a mycologist who expertly…
Conservation Agronomist, Ray Archuleta with the National Resources Conservation Service joins David Brandt of Walnut Creek Seeds for a workshop on soil and the use of diverse cover crops to build life and fertility in the soil. Produce abundant yields while implementing the best organic and sustainable methods of establishing and maintaining maximum biology. Build…
Ben Pelton is a philosopher, fitness consultant and mobility specialist who teaches dynamic training systems developed for postural correction. In the first of Ben’s videos, he shares exercises that can immediately enhance one’s quality of life. Learn about Wim ‘Iceman’ Hof and his method of breathing and cold water constitutional therapy that pushes the limits…
Ben Pelton is a philosopher, fitness consultant and mobility specialist who teaches dynamic training systems developed for postural correction. In the first of Ben’s videos, he shares exercises that can immediately enhance one’s quality of life. Learn about Wim ‘Iceman’ Hof and his method of breathing and cold water constitutional therapy that pushes the limits…
Ben Pelton is a philosopher, fitness consultant and mobility specialist who teaches dynamic training systems developed for postural correction. In the first of Ben’s videos, he shares exercises that can immediately enhance one’s quality of life. Learn about Wim ‘Iceman’ Hof and his method of breathing and cold water constitutional therapy that pushes the limits…
Innovative organic farmer Jean-Martin Fortier, author of “The Market Gardener” shares his profitable methods for achieving success growing vegetables on a small plot of land. Learn from the years of experience Jean-Martin and his wife have gone through from the basic beginnings to the advances made over a decade farming their land. Gain the benefits…
Renowned holistic orchardist and author Michael Phillips shared his deep body of knowledge on how to perform successful biological orcharding for apples and other fruiting trees. His books, “The Apple Grower” and “The Holistic Orchard” go into complete detail on this intriguing topic that examines expanding ways to emulate forest edge ecology. Michael’s methods help…
Join us as organic orchard consultant, Andrew Goodheart Brown and pomology expert and Professor Emeritus of Cornell University, Bob Andersen teach us how to rejuvenate an old orchard. Find practical ways to increase yield, health and vitality of even very old fruiting trees to bring them back into production and minimize disease buildup.
Join ethnobotanist, Marc Williams and forager extraordinaire, Natalie Bogwalker on this adventure as we discover the wild foods around us in the fields and forest edge. Learn an architecture of understanding plants based on their families and common traits to help expedite a working knowledge of the plant diversity around us. Marc is carrying on…
