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Straw Bale Garden Part III: Adding Fertilizer

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Gardening, Straw Bale Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...a, on philosophical grounds, but blood meal, a byproduct of our industrial food system, doesn’t make me feel much better. Urea would be a lot cheaper. Perhaps the best solution would be human urine. Throw a week-long party, serve a lot of beer and invite your guests to fertilize your bales! Undiluted human urine has an NPK ratio close to that of blood meal. Those of you who have experimented with straw bale gardens please leave a comment on what f...

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Nasturtium Leaf Pesto

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Food, Foraging, Recipes
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...tium leaf pesto 2 fistfuls of nasturtium leaves 1 fistful of nuts–pistachios preferred but any will do a half fistful of grated Parmigiano-Reggiano olive oil salt pepper Roast nuts in a pan. Let them cool and add to a food processor with the nasturtium leaves, cheese, salt and pepper. Add olive oil as you pulse the processor. Process until smooth. Add to your favorite pasta or use as a dip. Garnish with a nasturtium flower....

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Saturday Linkages: Makers, Haters and Beekeeping Donkeys

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Saturday Linkages
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...zilian model offers post storm hazard tree assessment: http://ow.ly/1PuiKX Food Preservation Homemade Cranberry Jelly and Pickled Cranberries http://www.foodinjars.com/2012/11/homemade-cranberry-jelly-and-pickled-cranberries/ … Makers Step-by-Step Tiny Home Design & Construction http://lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com/2012/11/step-by-step-tiny-home-design.html#.UKbP0iPHQeI.twitter … Open Source Ecology’s “Build Yourself”: http://boingboing.net/2012/...

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A Review of Masanobu Fukuoka’s Sowing Seeds in the Desert

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Gardening, Miscellaneous, Permaculture, Reviews
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...ing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Resotration, and Ultimate Food Security is now in English in a beautiful translation published by Chelsea Green. Fukuoka’s writing deals with the tricky practical and spiritual issues involved with our place in nature’s synergistic complexities. To intervene or not to intervene is often the question when it comes to what Fukuoka called his “natural farming” method. Fukuoka councils a humbleness befo...

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