Yesterday I gave another Organic Vegetable Gardening Class at the Community Garden. As we are beginning to transition the beds to the new growing season (cool season, in our year round growing rotation), the topic was “Soil Preparation.”

We began with a reminder of the adage:

Feed your soil. Your soil feeds your plants, and […]

On Sept 14, the Environmental Change-Makers showed the movie “The End of Suburbia,” followed by a community discussion of the impacts of peak oil (the end of cheap oil) and what we can do about it.
We concluded our evening with the “post-it” exercise suggested by Rob Hopkins on p. 155 of his Transition Handbook. […]

On Sept 20, the Environmental Change-Makers held a full-day event in Los Angeles called “Life After Oil: Designing the Transition.” In this event, we explored the Transition concept originated by Rob Hopkins in response to the twin crises of peak oil and climate change. Read more about our “Life After Oil” series here.

The […]

This week it’s time for another garden class at the Community Garden at Holy Nativity. One of our regular participants requested the topic “seed saving.” I scheduled the topic for now, September, when some of the first seeds from summer vegetables are coming ripe in our Southern California gardens.

First off, let me acknowledge […]

I gave an organic vegetable gardening class at the Community Garden at Holy Nativity on “Vegetable Rotations.” The eventual goal of the class was to explain how, when I did the initial design for the Community Garden, I’d integrated vegetable rotations into the design. The garden team is getting ready to plan their […]