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Join Mark Dempsey and Pat Battle for this Carolina Farm Stewardship Association’s Sustainable Agriculture Conference session from the 2021 online conference about solar energy capture in plants and how sunshine can maximize fertility by feeding the microbial soil food web. Ramping up fertility with the sun and the soil food web can be done by…
Mutual Aid Organizing Strategies for Regenerative Agriculture and Community Resilience: A Practical Intensive, is a workshop where each participant will create an action plan for how to engage in Co-operate WNC’s emerging movement to grow a regional mutual aid society in western North Carolina as a transformative response to the social and ecological challenges we…
Mutual Aid Organizing Strategies for Regenerative Agriculture and Community Resilience: A Practical Intensive, is a workshop where each participant will create an action plan for how to engage in Co-operate WNC’s emerging movement to grow a regional mutual aid society in western North Carolina as a transformative response to the social and ecological challenges we…
Mutual Aid Organizing Strategies for Regenerative Agriculture and Community Resilience: A Practical Intensive, is a workshop where each participant will create an action plan for how to engage in Co-operate WNC’s emerging movement to grow a regional mutual aid society in western North Carolina as a transformative response to the social and ecological challenges we…
Farmer, educator and ethnobotanist, Mark Cohen talks about regenerative agriculture from a big picture perspective and brings a focus to restoring nature in ways that promote maximum biodiversity and ecosystem wellness over the long term. He brings together many divergent concepts to establish a firm foundation for understanding the scope and depth of regenerative farming…
In this video, I take you on a full vegetable garden tour to show you what is growing on in our permaculture inspired raised bed veggie garden. There has been so much growth recently and it is nice to be taking daily harvests from the garden. This video will cover all 21 raised beds that…
The workshop with John Henry Nelson is forthcoming and temporarily postponed. Look for it next week! In this video, Living Web Farms Director, Pat Battle and Multimedia Director and Radio show host Lisa Soledad Almaraz discuss the history and social implications of victory gardens and an array of topics related to that and reweaving the…
Nut based agroforestry offers a huge potential to increase the ecosystem functions of human habitats. Osker Brown, of Glorious Forest Farm, will discuss all aspects of nutrition, harvest, storage, processing, and culinary use of acorns, hazelnuts, chestnuts, hickories, and black walnuts. We will show and tell tools and methods for processing, and sample some treats.…
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.
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,…
Join John Henry Nelson, permaculturist and co-owner of Stone & Spade, along with Rocco Sinicrope of Living Web Farms, for this workshop focused on the farm’s integrated permaculture and livestock system. We utilize methods to maximize nutrient and water capture that works in synergy with the landscape. Learn how to cycle nutrients and water in…
Nate Kleinman presents this full day workshop addressing climate change on the farm and in the garden, through the fostering of native and resilient plants, grassroots plant breeding, citizen research, and seed saving. Kleinman founded the Experimental Farm Network to promote a variety of exciting plant exploration projects. He teaches agro-ecology techniques, how to utilize…
We lost an important community leader and inspiring educator of permaculture design and horticulture recently with the passing of Chuck Marsh. Even though we did not get to have him teach at Living Web Farms, we did film Chuck’s presentation last fall at the Organic Growers School’s Harvest Conference, on “Growing Food Where People Live,”…
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…
