 Raising Chickens NaturallySo you’ve decided to fill your garden with joyful chickens…Here are a few tips on raising chickens naturally…Happy healthy chickens make for healthy eggs and less hassle. Shelter: Chickens will need adequate shelter. This will depend on your climate and predators. Chickens will need a draft-free dry coop with adequate ventilation. If your climate is cold a heat source should be available for winter. A solid concrete floor or a raised coop are ideal as this will ma... Wild Berries #1: Wild Berries in NewfoundlandAlthough we have a very short growing season and are limited in the fruit varieties that can grow here, I am very lucky for the numerous wild berries that grow in our area. Wild blueberries are abundant although due to urban sprawl many blueberry picking areas are disappearing and the ones that remain are being harvested more densely but even so we still have a bountiful supply of these extremely tasty little berries. Wild Blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) Another common be...  Gateway: Growing Your Own FoodGateway: links to our projects, blogs, and forum discussions re: growing our own food With the current state of our environment and our society many people are beginning to grow their own food, whether that is on a farm, in a backyard or on a balcony. This shift to “back to the basics” has many gardeners learning about strategies to work with nature to create an abundance of organic goodness. Here, at GardenTenders.com, our members share lots of information and first-hand ex...  Worm FarmA few years back, Pam and I enjoyed a day at Bok Towers in Lake Wales, Florida. It was October and they were having thier Boktober Fest including music and venders. It happened to also be the same weekend as Biketober Fest in Daytona. Being the loving (and smart) hubby that I am, I offered to skip Biketober fest and take Pam to Bok Tower. There was one condition, since I was giving up biketober fest, we’d ride the Harley. (I was told the hat is a fashion statement)Now I say “smart” becau...  Organic Berry FarmHi Everyone! I am a single land owner who is looking to startup a berry farm! I don’t qualify for farming grants or loans, so I am looking to the community for support! I own 5 acres of land and I am raising seed donations as well as funds to help me to start a goji berry and lochness blackberry farm on the 5 acres! For more details about my project go here: http://www.gofundme.com/Organic-Berry-Farm Thanks!- Tom  The Mountain SchoolHave any of you heard of The Mountain School in Vermont? The first part of their info states “The Mountain School of Milton Academy is an independent semester program that provides high school juniors the opportunity to live and work on an organic farm in rural Vermont.” If I were of that age again, I think I’d like go there – and when my children are old enough I’m going have them look into it. Since I work for a study abroad organization, sending college stu... Comfrey - compost, fertilizerMarch 11/10 Yesterday was my birthday (I am now a full-grown woman, according to Native beliefs) and my daughter gave me a gardening book. :) ”The Organic Garden” by Allan Shepherd It is a great book, filled with lots of gardening wisdom. It focuses on the UK but gardening strategies are gardening strategies. It is written with a sense of humour and a bit of poetic flare. This would be a perfect book for someone thinking about starting a garden, walking you through the sp...  organic gardening #1: Organic Gardening During Tough Economic TimesThe Economic Bad News continues to mount. Food prices are up. Companies are laying off employees. Housing prices are slumping. During hard times people tend to take care of the home front. One of the ways to help make ends meet is to start growing some of your own organic food. Growing a simple vegetable garden can save hundreds of dollars in food costs. For example, consider lettuce. You can pay $3/ head for an organic looseleaf lettuce in the grocery store. You can also spend the same $3... Synthetic Products & Natural Alternatives #5: Can Organic Farming "Feed the World"? Let's review some facts :)http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/~christos/articles/cv_organic_farming.html Can Organic Farming “Feed the World”? Christos Vasilikiotis, Ph.D. University of California, BerkeleyESPM-Division of Insect Biology201 Wellman-3112Berkeley, CA 94720-3112 The legacy of Industrial Agriculture With the world population passing the 6 billion mark last October, the debate over our ability to sustain a fast growing population is heating up. Biotechnology advocates in particular are b...  Too busy for gardeningI have been ignoring my garden for the last few months, and it shows. It is overgrown with weeds and such. But, I have been busy working on a project – the tiny trailer house. I posted it on Lumberjocks, so I thought I would add a mention here as well for those who might be interested. Once I get that done, I can get back to the garden and get those weeds out. Unfortunately, there is a lot of bermuda grass. I am trying to keep the garden organic, or as much as possible. So, the...  
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