The best gardening & homesteading channels on Youtube
Veteran gardener and chef, Pat Battle shares the various aspects of establishing a robust kitchen herb garden. Learn how to enhance your cooking with a collection of foundational culinary herbs. From site selection to planting, soil maintenance and pest management, find out how to be ready to plant your favorite herbs and help them thrive.…
Treasured for their culinary, and medicinal properties, allium crops such as garlic, onions, shallots, chives and leeks provide gratifying yields, when their needs are met. Achieve your allium production goals with help from instructor Pat Battle, as he teaches us about their genetics, soils and soil preparation, timing, seeds, as opposed to sets, seedling production,…
Veteran gardener and chef, Pat Battle shares the various aspects of establishing a robust kitchen herb garden. Learn how to enhance your cooking with a collection of foundational culinary herbs. From site selection to planting, soil maintenance and pest management, find out how to be ready to plant your favorite herbs and help them thrive.…
Treasured for their culinary, and medicinal properties, allium crops such as garlic, onions, shallots, chives and leeks provide gratifying yields, when their needs are met. This class provides the tools and techniques required to achieve your allium production goals. Instructor Pat Battle teaches us about their genetics, soils and soil preparation, timing, seeds, as opposed…
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…
Botanist, herbalist and forager, Abby Artemisia takes us on an adventure into the one of the most biodiverse regions of the world, the ancient Appalachian forest of Western North Carolina, surrounding our educational farm. She guides us through our landscape to notice what tasty and nutritious wild foods surround us. She also talks about how…
Treasured for their culinary, and medicinal properties, allium crops such as garlic, onions, shallots, chives and leeks provide gratifying yields, when their needs are met. This class provides the tools and techniques required to achieve your allium production goals. Instructor Pat Battle teaches us about their genetics, soils and soil preparation, timing, seeds, as opposed…
Award winning entomologist, Dr. Richard McDonald, together with Pat Battle will focus on how to incorporate beneficial biological introductions and match them with preventative 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…
Treasured for their culinary, and even some medicinal properties, allium crops such as garlic, onions, shallots, chives and leeks provide gratifying yields, when their needs are met. This class provides the tools and techniques required to achieve your allium production goals. Instructor Pat Battle teaches us about their genetics, soils and soil preparation, timing, seeds,…
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…
Making and applying microbe-rich compost is one of the most valuable things you can do for your soil. Learn how, with Jane Weaver of Earth & Spirit Design, and Pat Battle, for an inspired perspective on how to to make compost that is biologically diverse making it better for your soil, plants and nutrient density…
Learn about the entire process of growing, milling and baking with small grains from seed to loaf. Our team of instructors for this workshop include; research agronomist, Mark Dempsey, Jennifer Lapidus, founder of Carolina Ground (carolinaground.com) and Pat Battle, Director of Living Web Farms & former owner of Lucky Goose Bakery. Glean insight on detailed…
Making and applying microbe-rich compost is one of the most valuable things you can do for your soil. Learn how, with Jane Weaver of Earth & Spirit Design, and get an inspired perspective on how to to make compost that is biologically diverse making it better for your soil, plants and nutrient density of the…
Explore the multifaceted and transformative effects of this most compelling cooking element; fire, with Meredith Leigh. Our foods can take on many nuanced flavors with its influence, as we grill, smoke, barbecue, sear and more, but what scientific processes are going on that make all this possible? What can we learn about fire that will…
Learn about the entire process of growing, milling and baking with small grains from seed to loaf. Our team of instructors for this workshop include; research agronomist, Mark Dempsey, Jennifer Lapidus, founder of Carolina Ground (carolinaground.com) and Pat Battle, Director of Living Web Farms & former owner of Lucky Goose Bakery. Glean insight on detailed…
The discussion about root crops as a key player in year round local food availability, and productivity continues as we talk about how they can provide high levels of nutrition on modest amounts of land. Learn preferred varieties, planting times, expected harvest schedules, nutritional requirements, as well as disease and insect protection for a diversity of…
Expert researcher and author of the book, “Altered Genes, Twisted Truth,” Dr. Steven M. Druker spoke in Asheville, NC about how the venture to genetically engineer our food has subverted science, corrupted government, and systematically deceived the public. Jane Goodall calls his book, “One of the most important in the last 50 years…urging everyone who…
Learn about the entire process of growing, milling and baking with small grains from seed to loaf. Our team of instructors for this workshop include; Mark Dempsey, a former research agronomist, Jennifer Lapidus from Carolina Ground and Pat Battle, Director of Living Web Farms & former owner of Lucky Goose Bakery. Glean insight on detailed…
Sweet potatoes are a nutrient dense food that can be easy to grow with the right methods and selected soil types. Pat Battle shares his trials, tribulations and insights for abundant harvests of this rich and versatile root crop. He delineates varieties and their properties, how to propagate ‘slips’ and methods to help you achieve new…
The discussion about root crops as a key player in year round local food availability, and productivity continues as we talk about how they can provide high levels of nutrition on modest amounts of land. Learn preferred varieties, planting times, expected harvest schedules, nutritional requirements, as well as disease and insect protection for a diversity of…
Eating an abundance of vegetables makes us healthy, but finding a variety of interesting ways to prepare them and enjoy them can be a challenge when facing every day meal planning. Pat Battle and Meredith Leigh give us a fresh perspective on delicious vegetable dishes and inspire us to expand our vegetable repetoire year round.
Root crops are a key player in year round local food availability, and can be incredibly productive and provide high levels of nutrition on modest amounts of land. Learn preferred varieties, planting times, expected harvest schedules, nutritional requirements, as well as disease and insect protection for a diversity of root vegetable crops. We will cover common…
Join us for this fun class on how to save time and increase quality in your cooking, simply by learning a few clever kitchen tricks. The focus will be on minimal equipment, elimination of single-use kitchen gadgets, and science-informed techniques that will improve recipe performance.
A great way to insure good health is to eat greens regularly, but this can be harder in the heat of the summer. Pat Battle teaches us how to grow and forage nutritious greens that are commonly eaten in tropical climates. Learn how to harvest beneficial “weeds”, and discover surprising sources of greens from plants you already…
Enhance an array of dishes by learning how to craft delicious sauces. From mother sauces of old, to marinades, salad dressings, and even salsa, knowing the cornerstone principles of sauces can take your cooking to a whole new level. Meredith Leigh, along with Pat Battle share the foundations of sauce-making and get creative with some…
Seasoned baker, gardener, and director of Living Web Farms, Pat Battle teaches us the subtle yet simple techniques for baking a satisfying loaf of bread. Discover how to adapt the amount of water to flour ratio commonly called for in recipes to find the perfect balance for the exact flour you are working with, along…
Seasoned baker, gardener, and director of Living Web Farms, Pat Battle teaches us the subtle yet simple techniques for baking a satisfying loaf of bread. Discover how to adapt the amount of water to flour ratio commonly called for in recipes to find the perfect balance for the exact flour you are working with.
In the not so distant past, general preparedness and self sufficiency was an everyday part of life. Explore ways we can cultivate resiliency today with Organic Growers School, AmeriCorps member Jillian Wolf and Sara DeFosset, as they facilitate this discussion on how we can maintain a reliable food system. We’ll look at how our community…
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
Salt is one of the most powerful and versatile ingredients we use in the kitchen. It’s roles range from flavoring to cleaning to chemically altering foods in order to create some of our most cherished eating experiences. This class explores the history of salt in the culinary arts, its nutritional significance and demystifies types of…
