VIDEO: All About Garlic Scapes
Garlic scapes are becoming more revered in the culinary consciousness but it’s important to harvest them at the right time for maximum yield and flavor. Follow us on instagram @livingwebfarms and stay healthy!
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VIDEO: Checking In
In this video, we check in on some of the new growths at North Farm which were started from cuttings and divisions in an earlier video. The clary sage has prospered particularly and the lavender is playing host to lady bug pupa. Follow us on instagram @livingwebfarms for more updates!
VIDEO: All About Amaranth
Known as ‘pigweed’ colloquially and ‘callaloo’ in Jamaican cuisine, amaranth is a protein-packed weed found all over WNC. In salad or sautéed, amaranth is wonderful addition to any meal and fun to forage. Follow us on instagram @livingwebfarms for more content!
VIDEO: Dividing and Re-Potting Lovage
In this video, Patryk espouses the merits of lovage, a perennial plant with a strong, celery-like taste that certainly isn’t for everyone. This lovage is inside our Grand View greenhouse but you have a decent chance of finding it in the wild or your own garden. Follow @livingwebfarms on instagram for more updates and details…
VIDEO: Starting Sweet Potatoes
Rocco gives a step-by-step tutorial on growing your own sweet potatoes–from identifying eyes to sprout to rooting growths. Remember to keep your starters in shade initially to avoid shocking them. Stay healthy and follow us on instagram @livingwebfarms!
VIDEO: Identifying Purslane and Galinsoga
Learn how to take advantage of the wild greens that will be blooming in the coming weeks! Ours are a little ahead of schedule thanks to the green house climate so you might not be seeing either of these in your vicinity yet but give them time. Stay healthy and give us a follow on…
VIDEO: Identifying and Utilizing Mullein
As Patryk says in the video, it’s important to only harvest wild plants a minimum of 25 feet away from any roadway to avoid lead contamination. Stay tuned for our next installment and follow us on instagram @livingwebfarms for more content!
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.
VIDEO: Market Gardening in April (A Day in The Life of a Farmer in April)
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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: Savvy Tillage with Jeff Poppen Part 8
Jeff Poppen, the Barefoot Farmer, is back at Living Web Farms for a workshop highlighting his smart and resourceful minimal tillage program. Learn to use tillage the right way, to help you manage efficiently without killing the soil, and how to do it without fancy and overly-expensive equipment. Learn about the foundations of his farming…
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: Organic Growers School 2020
Living Web Farms at Organic Growers School with Multimedia Director Lisa Soledad Almaraz and booth volunteer Kelly Sunshine of Soul & Soil Project. Lisa interviews a few exhibitors at the event in Mars Hill, NC March 6-8, 2020. Learn about our vibrant community of local growers and businesses. Check it out and learn more at…
VIDEO: Savvy Tillage with Jeff Poppen Part 7
Jeff Poppen, the Barefoot Farmer, is back at Living Web Farms for a workshop highlighting his smart and resourceful minimal tillage program. Learn to use tillage the right way, to help you manage efficiently without killing the soil, and how to do it without fancy and overly-expensive equipment. Learn about the foundations of his farming…
VIDEO: Savvy Tillage with Jeff Poppen Part 6
Jeff Poppen, the Barefoot Farmer, is back at Living Web Farms for a workshop highlighting his smart and resourceful minimal tillage program. Learn to use tillage the right way, to help you manage efficiently without killing the soil, and how to do it without fancy and overly-expensive equipment. Learn about the foundations of his farming…
VIDEO: Market Gardening in February (A Day in The Life of a Farmer in February)
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VIDEO: Hugh Lovel Consultation Part 2
Take a walk with biodynamic pioneer and farm consultant Hugh Lovel and John Henry Nelson around our three Living Web Farms in Mills River, NC. Hugh Lovel is the author of “A Biodynamic Farm for Growing Wholesome Food” and “Quantum Agriculture: Biodynamics and Beyond”. His articles appear in Acres USA and related organic farming periodicals…
VIDEO: Savvy Tillage with Jeff Poppen Part 5
Jeff Poppen, the Barefoot Farmer, is back at Living Web Farms for a workshop highlighting his smart and resourceful minimal tillage program. Learn to use tillage the right way, to help you manage efficiently without killing the soil, and how to do it without fancy and overly-expensive equipment. Learn about the foundations of his farming…
VIDEO: The Most Underrated Vegetable You MUST Grow!
Click here to get 2 months of Skillshare Premium for FREE!: https://skl.sh/huwrichards I don’t believe any vegetables are overrated, but I do believe some are underrated and in this video, I show you what I think is the most underrated vegetable of them all and why you should grow it. Diversification is what makes a…