All the Dirt on Gardening

The will to start life anew can begin anywhere, anytime. Pam Warhurst's Ted Talk is only 13 minutes long, during which she encourages a revolution in how we interact, use resources and take community, learning and business action. Yes we can is her enthusiastic motto. Watch How We Can Eat Our Landscapes here. Three and one half years ago she and her friends invented the idea around her kitchen table:  Pam Warhurst co-founded Incredible Edible.   Follow them on Facebook here . Invest in more kindness toward each other and the environment. They started with a seed plot, grew that into an herb garden. From there a vegetable garden, fruit trees, gardens at police stations and senior homes. Then, an aquaponics facility at a school where students grow fish that became a market growing center. Yes, it is replicable! The Ten Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town are at this link . 1. Start with what you have, not what you haven’t. 2. Don’t write a strategy documen...

Treehugger.com has an interesting article about how trees talk to each other, recognize their own offspring and communicate their own distress. Here's the link to the entire piece with an 18-minute TED talk on the topic by forest ecologist Suzanne Simard. In fact, they form their own ancient internet. " While it's not news that a variety of communication happens between non-human elements of the natural world, the idea of mycelia (the main body of fungi, as opposed to the more well-known fruiting bodies - mushrooms) acting as a sort of old-school planetary internet is still a fairly recent one, and may serve as a spore of a new breed of forestry, ecology, land management" " A recent talk at  TEDSummit 2016  by forest ecologist  Suzanne Simard  seems to put the lie to the idea that a forest is merely a collection of trees that can be thought of as fully independent entities, standing alone even while surrounded by other trees and vegetation. As Simard, who ha...