VIDEO: Shiitake Harvesting
In this video, Patryk runs through techniques to better harvest shiitakes and maintain your growing logs. A forthcoming installment will cover how to get started growing shiitakes.
Category: Resilience Daily
Description:
Resilience Daily is a channel offering daily content to help you live more resiliently in these times of the pandemic. We will feature content from a variety of contributors related to Living Web Farms and the Organic Growers School as well as our regional network of people in western North Carolina and the world. For longer educational workshop videos, please visit our partner channel Living Web Farms. For more information, please see the links below.
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VIDEO: Make Sanitizer Spray
Richard from Living Web Farms follows the WHO formula and makes a sanitizing spray that is safe for hands and also useful for disinfecting surfaces such as door handles, countertops or tools. WHO Formula here: https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf
VIDEO: Saving Loofah Seed
In this video, Pat shows how to save seeds from loofah plants. A member of the gourd family, loofah is edible and can be used in a multitude of ways. Follow us on instagram @livingwebfarms and stay healthy!
VIDEO: Introduction to Seed Saving
With so many early spring blooms going to seed in the coming weeks, here are some tips for singling out seeds ready to be saved. This video focuses on members of the brassica family but later installments will cover other families. The book Patryk references is “Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for…
VIDEO: Checking Up On Cuttings
Here’s a follow up to our earlier videos about propagation of elderberry and culinary herbs. Some are doing better than others, particularly those which were produced through division of a larger plant rather than through cuttings as is expected, although overall we’re seeing success. Pat evaluates the status of each new growth and offers tips…
VIDEO: Dividing Perennial Herbs, 2/2
Following our last segment on winter savory, this video covers dividing oregano in the same fashion and further info about the plant. Stay healthy and follow us on instagram @livingwebfarms! Also tune in to tonight’s Repair Cafe TV for demos of simple repairs you can do at home as well as a Q&A session with…
VIDEO: Dividing Perennial Herbs, 1/2
For the latest installment of Resilience Daily, Patryk Battle of Living Web Farms walks viewers through dividing winter savory and then offers a refresher on the rooting techniques detailed in earlier videos. At 13:04, where he says ‘root mass’ it should actually be ‘plant mass.’ Part two concerns oregano and will be up tomorrow. Feel…
VIDEO: Foraging Edible Spring Greens, 2/2
In this video, Pat covers foraging sheep sorrel, creasy greens, and oxalis. All of these greens should be prime for the picking until the summer heat sets in. Follow us on instagram @livingwebfarms!
VIDEO: Foraging Edible Spring Greens, 1/2
In this video, Pat extolls the wonders of lamb’s quarters as a wild green and gives surefire tips for identifying and harvesting your own. This video is a re-upload due to technical issues with the original. Follow us on instagram @livingwebfarms!
VIDEO: Rooting Elderberry Cuttings, 4/4
In the beginning of this video, Patryk is quoting Randal Pfleger of Pfleger Pfarms in Mars Hill. Check us out on instagram @livingwebfarms for more content and updates about our videos!
VIDEO: In-depth Tips For Identifying Elderberries, 3/4
Risking redundancy, in this video Patryk really spells out elderberry identification for those who are unfamiliar with somewhat clearer visuals.
VIDEO: Taking Elderberry Cuttings, 2/4
In this video, Patryk will explain further how to identify elderberry as well as properly take cuttings to be independently rooted.
VIDEO: Introduction to Elderberries, 1/4
In this series, Pat explains the best way to prepare elderberry cuttings which can then be grown for medicinal use in potentially combatting COVID-19 infections.
VIDEO: Identifying and Harvesting Chickweed
Chickweed is a delicious wild green you’ve likely been walking past without realizing. Ours is a little further along due to conditions in the greenhouse but in the wild you have a bit more time to find it before it goes to seed.
VIDEO: Using Cuttings To Jumpstart Your Herb Garden
In this latest installment of our collaborative series with the Organic Growers School, Pat offers a surefire formula for jumpstarting your herb garden. While seeds are still a viable options, sourcing and planting cuttings will allow you to have productive growth as soon as July.
VIDEO: Picking Peashoots
In the second installment of the Resilience Daily series from Living Web Farms in cooperation with the Organic Growers School, Pat Battle gives tips for identifying and picking peashoots. A common cover crop, peashoots are readily available this time of season and possess a unique, lightly sweet, pea-like taste. For more tips and in-depth lessons,…
VIDEO: Delicious Brassica Flower Buds
Pat Battle of Living Web Farms begins our Resilience Daily series of videos to help you make the most of available food and resources during these times. In this inaugural video, he shares the wisdom of eating the delicious brassicas available when they overwinter in the garden and begin to flower as they go to…