The best gardening & homesteading channels on Youtube
When planning a garden, gardeners and farmers need every tool at their disposal to enhance the prospect of having a successful crop. Proper timing is the key. Each year, the biodynamic farmer plans around the rotation of the earth and the seasons. We are intricately intertwined in all the heavenly bodies that surround the Earth.…
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…
Organic Growers School, based in Asheville, NC and serving the Southern Appalachians, offers sustainability consulting to all land-owners, land-seekers, growers, and sustainability seekers of all scales and styles. This interview is with Brandon Greenstein, the OGS Sustainability Consultant in order to help explain the importance of land and site planning and design. From the website:…
Join a renowned leader in biodynamic agriculture for an in-depth exploration of the power of the biodynamic agricultural preparations. In this workshop, Hugh Courtney will introduce the fundamentals and purposes of the nine basic biodynamic preparations, given to the world by Rudolf Steiner in 1924. He will share wisdom and insights he has gathered in…
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 over-expensive equipment. Learn about the foundations of his farming…
This workshop covers fundamentals of permaculture design for people developing self-sufficiency with the land. We will cover zones, useful plants, and water, among many other principles of permaculture. This workshop will help you develop a design plan for your own homestead in harmony with the land and natural elements surrounding you. In part 4, John…
The availability, quality, and integration of water in food production is an overlooked yet central feature of food systems. Leaders in the work of water interfaces are John Todd and his son Jonathan, who combine cutting edge research with dynamic design to restore waterways all over the world as functional, living components of natural and…
Renowned holistic orchardist and author Michael Phillips shares his deep body of knowledge on how to perform successful biological orcharding for apples and other fruiting trees. His books, “The Apple Grower” and “The Holistic Orchard” go into complete detail on this intriguing topic that examines expanding ways to emulate forest edge ecology. Michael’s methods help…
