If gardeners find spring and summer to be about growing food, they find fall and winter to be more about storing food. The fall season brings bountiful harvest from your own garden as well as inexpensive prices from local farmers’ markets. In winter months, prices on produce inevitably rise. So…
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Millions are being asked to stay home on 'lockdown' to fight coronavirus. This is not easy to do psychologically. Here are some practices that may help our collective mental health during an uncertain time.
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Permaculture is a set of design principles centered on whole systems thinking, simulating, or directly utilizing the patterns and resilient features observed in natural ecosystems. It uses these principles in a growing number of fields from regenerative agriculture, rewilding, and community resilience.
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Growing your own vegetables may provide a small sense of control, even if the vegetables produced are a small supplement to your diet.
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If you find yourself catastrophizing during the coronavirus pandemic, this is for you. Learn how to soothe a brain that's predicting doom and gloom.
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All neighborhoods are different, with different players, problems, and possibilities. This outline is intended to serve as a compass to point your group in the right direction. Bringing together a …
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The coronavirus pandemic has led to a collective loss of normalcy.
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The Coronavirus Response template is available to anyone looking to create a custom website for sharing local updates with their community.
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Vermicomposting, or composting with worms, is easy, fun, and sustainable! Create amazing "black gold" organic fertilizer for your garden by setting up a simp...
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Kimchi is very easy to make and full of gut-beneficial bacteria. This kimchi recipe is vegan and free of any added sugar. Suitable for plant-based and general healthy diets. Most people could benefit from adding
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Regular composting, also known as “cold composting”, involves placing a variety of organic materials in a compost bin, enclosure, or even just in a large heap, and leaving it there until it breaks …
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Oven canning is a method that works well to preserve pasta, rice, dried beans, rolled oats, flour, dehydrated apples, potatoes, carrots, soup peas, flour, lentils, cereals (without seeds or raisins), cake, biscuit and bread mixes, banana chips, and dehydrated dairy products.The heat kills any insects or eggs that might be…
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