The best gardening & homesteading channels on Youtube
In this video we look at a medicinal bed that also serves as a farmscaping bed. We observe pollinators and consider the dangers of in-ground yellowjacket nests, how to spot them, and what to do if you get stung.
Learn about native pollinators, beyond honeybees, as we explore the large variety of native bees, predatory wasps, beetles, flies, butterflies, and moths that are vital to healthy farm and garden ecosystems. Discover farmscaping practices to support healthy insect populations. Nancy Lee Adamson, Ph.D. is a native pollinator specialist with the Xerces Society. Glean insights to…
Learn about native pollinators, beyond honeybees, as we explore the large variety of native bees, predatory wasps, beetles, flies, butterflies, and moths that are vital to healthy farm and garden ecosystems. Discover farmscaping practices to support healthy insect populations. Nancy Lee Adamson, Ph.D. is a native pollinator specialist with the Xerces Society. Glean insights to…
Learn about native pollinators, beyond honeybees, as we explore the large variety of native bees, predatory wasps, beetles, flies, butterflies, and moths that are vital to healthy farm and garden ecosystems. Discover farmscaping practices to support healthy insect populations. Nancy Lee Adamson, Ph.D. is a native pollinator specialist with the Xerces Society. Glean insights to…
Learn about native pollinators, beyond honeybees, as we explore the large variety of native bees, predatory wasps, beetles, flies, butterflies, and moths that are vital to healthy farm and garden ecosystems. Discover farmscaping practices to support healthy insect populations. Nancy Lee Adamson, Ph.D. is a native pollinator specialist with the Xerces Society. Glean insights to…
Learn about native pollinators, beyond honeybees, as we explore the large variety of native bees, predatory wasps, beetles, flies, butterflies, and moths that are vital to healthy farm and garden ecosystems. Discover farmscaping practices to support healthy insect populations. Nancy Lee Adamson, Ph.D. is a native pollinator specialist with the Xerces Society. Together with Brannen…
Learn about native pollinators, beyond honeybees, as we explore the large variety of native bees, predatory wasps, beetles, flies, butterflies, and moths that are vital to healthy farm and garden ecosystems. Discover farmscaping practices to support healthy insect populations. Nancy Lee Adamson, Ph.D. is a native pollinator specialist with the Xerces Society. Together with Brannen…
Award winning entomologist, Dr. Richard McDonald, together with Pat Battle will focus on how to incorporate beneficial biological introductions and match them with preventive measures as our first line of defense against insect and disease pressure. Farmscaping, multi-species cover crops, minimal soil disturbance, and proper mineral availability are some of the many ways growers create…
Keeping our plants healthy means engaging living biological agents that might not occur naturally on our landscapes. We need to cultivate and sometimes, buy this biology. How do we know the best sources of these living inputs? What parameters are ideal in order to insure this beneficial biology thrives and has the impact we desire? What other…
Get a new perspective on integrating pasture management, agriculture and trees in this presentation by agroforester, Geoffrey Steen. Learn the theory and practice of incorporating beneficial trees into farm fields to be used as animal fodder, green manures, shade trees, windbreaks for crops (alley cropping), and also provide valuable edibles from fruits and nuts. Discover…
Discover key plants that add biodiversity and beauty to your farm & garden with Pat Battle. Learn about the dynamic interactions between plants, pollinator and predator insects that will help you create a buzz of biodiversity that helps sustain balance in your niche of the local ecosystem. Explore several more farmscaping video series on LivingWebFarms.org
Gabe Brown of Brown’s Ranch in Bismarck, ND, shares his transformative journey of cultivating his farm from modern conventional use to a thriving living ecosystem. Through no-till and extensive cover crop usage, Gabe and his family are able to support a diverse array of farm and ranching enterprises that are both profitable and models of…
Take an informative walk in the main Living Web Farms vegetable garden with apiarist, Michelle Carter and lead gardener, Jeremy Griste. Learn about some of the flowering plants that are beneficial for growing your native pollinator populations and how to cultivate diversity in your farm/garden landscape.
Join us for this roundtable event of wise local beekeepers facilitated by Diane Almond of Honeybees & Heather Farm, Nancy Adamson of the Xerces Society, Michelle Carter of Living Web Farms and Phyllis Stiles of Bee City USA. They will discuss sustainable beekeeping, pollinator health & habitat, community dynamics and activism. Bring your questions and…
From the Roper Mountain Science Center in Greenville South Carolina on Jan 18th 2014 with keynote speaker Patryk Battle of Living Web Farms. Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org
Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Learn the ‘who, what, when, where, why & how’ of farmscaping to maximize diversity for a healthy garden. Grow a banquet for beneficials, and they will come. See farmscaping examples, best plants for each crop/season and other essential components to…
Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Learn the ‘who, what, when, where, why & how’ of farmscaping to maximize diversity for a healthy garden. Grow a banquet for beneficials, and they will come. See farmscaping examples, best plants for each crop/season and other essential components to…
Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Learn the ‘who, what, when, where, why & how’ of farmscaping to maximize diversity for a healthy garden. Grow a banquet for beneficials, and they will come. See farmscaping examples, best plants for each crop/season and other essential components to…
