November 21, 2024

VIDEO: How to Start a School Garden – Help Kids Grow Healthy Food!

💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Children who grow vegetables, eat vegetables. That’s why we have rounded up the best tips and advice on starting a successful School Garden. In this video we present lots of great ideas to inspire and enrich the curriculum with a school garden. We demonstrate how to start…

VIDEO: Homemade Bread with Patryk Battle, Part 3

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Baking Bread with Pat Battle offers seasoned tips and techniques for baking delicious bread at the Mills River Educational Farm. Pat’s years of experience and insight into making dough are shared with participants. They get their hands in the flour…

VIDEO: Fertility Systems I, Part 13

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Soil scientist Jon Nilsson is joined by Pat Battle for a hands on workshop at the Mills River Educational Farm teaching about the soil food web and ways to increase fertility from the rich beginnings of well made compost and…

VIDEO: Fertility Systems I, Part 10

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Soil scientist Jon Nilsson is joined by Pat Battle for a hands on workshop at the Mills River Educational Farm teaching about the soil food web and ways to increase fertility from the rich beginnings of well made compost and…

VIDEO: Fertility Systems I, Part 6

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Soil scientist Jon Nilsson is joined by Pat Battle for a hands on workshop at the Mills River Educational Farm teaching about the soil food web and ways to increase fertility from the rich beginnings of well made compost and…

VIDEO: Organic Growers School Poultry Workshop, Part 19

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org How do we build “Egg Sheds” and feed communities healthy and nutritious eggs in abundance? Pat Foreman explains it all and gives us the simple formula that can easily help us provide eggs as a local food resource. Jim Adkins…

VIDEO: Organic Growers School Poultry Workshop, Part 14

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org See the heritage poultry flock of Grandview Living Web Farm in the pasture. Rocco Sinicrope talks about his experience raising the flock. Jim Adkins and Harvey Ussery talk about how to effectively manage a flock. Then we follow the flock…

VIDEO: Organic Growers School Poultry Workshop, Part 6

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org International poultry judge, Jim Adkins of the Sustainable Poultry Network hosts the day at the Grandview Farm as the Organic Growers School brings together poultry experts, innovators and authors including Patricia L. Foreman, Jim Adkins and Harvey Ussery. Learn about…

VIDEO: Organic Growers School Poultry Workshop, Part 7

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Chicken house strategies shared by Harvey Ussery help you customize the comfort of your flock depending on your situation. Find out how to help chickens stay healthy by giving them access to the right conditions. Observe your chickens to find…

VIDEO: Organic Growers School Poultry Workshop, Part 5

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org International poultry judge Jim Adkins introduces chicken expert Harvey Ussery, author of The Small Scale Poultry Flock. Harvey starts his talk with types of housing for chicken flocks and shows various ways to manage in any type of weather.

VIDEO: Organic Growers School Poultry Workshop, Part 4

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Jim Adkins shares great stories of various breeds and all their unique personalities. For newbies, ask youself, why am I getting chickens and ask yourself the important questions to help you make the best choices for gathering your flock.

VIDEO: Organic Growers School Poultry Workshop, Part 2

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org International poultry judge, Jim Adkins of the Sustainable Poultry Network hosts the day at the Grandview Farm as the Organic Growers School brings together poultry experts, innovators and authors including Patricia L. Foreman, Jim Adkins and Harvey Ussery. Learn about…

VIDEO: Organic Growers School Poultry Workshop, Part 3

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Jim Adkins explores what sustainable poultry really means and how what goes into the birds affects us. Jim clears the air on what terms in poultry actually represent. We then start exploring heritage breeds and their remarkable characteristics.

VIDEO: Organic Growers School Poultry Workshop, Part 1

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org International poultry judge, Jim Adkins of the Sustainable Poultry Network hosts the day at the Grandview Farm as the Organic Growers School brings together poultry experts, innovators and authors including Patricia L. Foreman, Jim Adkins and Harvey Ussery. Learn about…

VIDEO: Mills River Educational Farm Tour Part 3

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org As Pat leads the group outside t cool off, he continues to explain the synergistic and sustainable ways the Mills River Farm and Grandview farms are operating. He also discusses some organic farming policy issues.

VIDEO: Mills River Educational Farm Tour Part I

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Join us on group tour of Mills River Educational Farm. Pat Battle talks to 46 environmental educators brought to the farm by Jeanine M. Davis, Ph.D. Dr. Davis is Associate Professor and Extension Specialist at the Dept. of Horticultural Science,…

VIDEO: Mills River Educational Farm Tour Part 2

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org The group tour heads into the greenhouse to see the abundance of vegetables growing. Living Web Farms staff member Marshall Hagan explains his background in conventional farming and his transformation to organic production methods.

VIDEO: Mills River Educational Farm Tour Part 6

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Dr. Jeanine Davis of the Mountain Horticultural Research Center brought a group of 46 environmental educators to learn more about Living Web Farms while visiting the Mills River Educational Farm. Our tour wraps up as we see the compost production…

VIDEO: balloons

Many are my own design and the photos were taken in the beginning stages. I don’t have photos of the refined designs. Many are from events and restaurants that I worked. I don’t do the clown character anymore because I developed a sensitivity to the greasepaint and my face now cracks and bleeds in only…

VIDEO: Mills River Educational Farm Tour Part 5

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Stepping into the main garden, Pat describes how the garden design includes many plants for beneficial insects then Rocco Sinicrope explains how he flamed the weed seedlings as a quick efficient technique early in the season.

VIDEO: Mills River Educational Farm Tour Part 4

Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Pat Battle invites Jeremy and Tim to show off the huge garlic just harvested from our no till beds. Jeremy describes the processes of planting into cover crops, mulching, improving beds with “lasagna” techniques and other organic amendments utilized at…