Keystone Alliance Offers New Calculator – from Farm Futures
Here’s an interesting article in “farm Futures’ on a new on-line tool for farmers to track how sustainable their agricultural practices are. What is really intriguing is that our collective and national consciousness is moving in this direction – finally and, actually, quite suddenly.
I will be waiting for this to be released just to see how my own gardening/farming efforts stack up against ‘industry norms’…
Camarillo Community Garden website.
The Camarillo Community Garden is the result of a grass-roots movement;
people with a common commitment to the citizens of Camarillo. Our goal is to empower our neighbors, to encourage them to take control of their own food supply, to enjoy a more healthful life style, educate youth about where food really comes from, build a sense of community among citizens, reduce their food costs, and reduce the over-all load that highly commercialized agriculture places on the environment.
The project is currently recruiting support from the City of Camarillo, its Parks & Recreation Department, civic and fraternal organizations, and local business owners. This web site will serve to coordinate group efforts, publicize events, and eventually to gather applications for garden plots.
Much work remains to be done, from locating land, providing water, fencing, gardening materials and tools, promoting support from local organizations. Please pitch in and help us bring this project to fruition. Add your name to the petition, sign up for our newsletter, or volunteer.
This site is up and running, and open to all gardeners, especially those in Camarillo.
I’ve just put up a new page reviewing a new piece of garden planning software called GrowVeg. It is a design tool with an added bonus – it helps keep you into proper crop rotation. Easy drawing tools, super reports, and a gardening calendar, too.
If you have any other similar products, lease leave a comment so i can check it out…
gardening-coaches.com/forum/ • Index page
This is a gardening related forum, and is meant to be a place the public and gardening coaches to mingle. Gardening coaches will answer your questions, and you can ask them what is puzzling you.
Registration takes only a minute and as soon as you are approved, you will have access to all the forum’s features. If you are a gardening coach, please let me know when you register so I can let you into the private coaches’ lounge…
VILSACK ESTABLISHES THE PEOPLE’S GARDEN PROJECT ON BICENTENNIAL OF LINCOLN’S BIRTH
Announces goal of creating community gardens at each USDA facility worldwide WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2009 —
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today “broke pavement” on the inaugural USDA The People’s Garden during a ceremony on the grounds of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) commemorating the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. The Secretary declared the stretch of pavement permanently closed and returned back to green, and encouraged other Administration officials and the general public to join in to protect the Chesapeake watershed.
How to install a drip irrigation system taht will save you water
Here’s a page that shows how to install a water saving drip irrigation system. My garden is using 1/5 of the water it needed before. The page is still under development. Check it out
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