Hard to believe how easy it really is to solve our climate and pollution problems. Put the planet back to a more natural state and it fixes itself!! It is funny how as humans we tend to complicate a beautifully simple process. Watch this short video.
Eric Toensmeier Tours His Backyard Perennial Food Garden and teaches us that with a little know how, we can change the way we look at “yard work”. He is producing delicious, healthy food nearly year round in a relatively small space.
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This member of the spinach family grows prolifically in most places and is delicious as well as highly nutritious. I find myself grabbing a handful when I am outside working and can’t take the time to run to the kitchen to eat. It is great tossed with other greens for a salad, or cooked and eaten with a little vinegar. When people see it growing in my garden and sneer about my “weeds”, I quickly grab some tender leaves, offer up an sample taste and amaze them with the mellow flavor.
Currently it is estimated that one half of the world’s population—approximately three billion people on six continents—lives or works in buildings constructed of earth. And while the vast legacy of traditional and vernacular earthen construction has been widely discussed, little attention has been paid to the contemporary tradition of earth architecture. Author Ronald Rael, founder of Eartharchitecture.org provides a history of building with earth in the modern era, focusing particularly on projects constructed in the last few decades that use rammed earth, mud brick, compressed earth, cob, and several other interesting techniques. EARTH ARCHITECTURE presents a selection of more than 40 projects that exemplify new, creative uses of the oldest building material on the planet.
