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  • Economic Resilience,  Teaching powerdown,  Well-being

    What to do during virus lockdown

    So we’re all in coronavirus lockdown for an undefined period of time. What can we do, to keep from going crazy? What can we do, that soothes the nerves? What can we do to keep our minds occupied? What can…

    March 21, 2020
  • Abundant Harvests - garden info

    What I’m planting now, and why

    Rain in Los Angeles – can you believe it? Looking to the upbeat, hopeful, future-oriented news, here’s what I’m planting now, and planning for the summer. This past week, the rush on supermarkets was absolutely crazy. At this point, even…

    March 14, 2020
  • Economic Resilience,  Transition movement

    Life as you knew it has probably just changed

    Let’s get real here. COVID-19 has us distanced from each other, protecting our own health, and worried for high-risk friends and family. COVID-19-driven shortages are jolting us into panic mode. The fabric of our lives is changing. Meanwhile COVID-19 self-isolation…

    March 12, 2020
  • Climate solutions,  Creating social change

    The future of restaurants

    A video about the future of food and the struggles of trying to create a zero-waste restaurant.

    January 15, 2020
  • Abundant Harvests - garden info

    Resources for my Soil Building class

    When we pull harvest from the garden, week after week, we are taking from the garden ecosystem. We are taking from the soil. Here in Southern California, where we can harvest year-round (with a seasonally-appropriate crop mix), that means we…

    January 10, 2020
  • Abundant Harvests - garden info

    Resources for my Permaculture Observation class

    Permaculture is a design system that begins with “what is” and launches from that starting point into “what will become.” Rather than making a strict decision about the final outcome from the very start, the designer begins with what is…

    December 6, 2019
  • Abundant Harvests - garden info

    Manufacture microclimes

    One of the big advantages of container gardening is that you have so much ability to adjust the immediate local “climate” your plants are growing in. If a plant is baking in too much sun, you can pick up the…

    December 1, 2019
  • Creating social change

    A quick introduction to Permaculture

    Permaculture is a design system which can help us make more appropriate choices.  Permaculture was conceived of in the 1970s by David Holmgren and Bill Mollison, and its ideas have now spread around the world.  Its name comes from the idea…

    February 3, 2015
  • Abundant Harvests - garden info,  Community Garden at Holy Nativity

    Building a Food Forest garden – cover crops

    We’re designing a Food Forest garden, to be built later this spring.  We’ll be tearing out asphalt, cleansing and rejeuvenating the soil, and recrafting the space as a community gathering area with a cob bread oven and food forest. Today…

    January 23, 2015
  • Abundant Harvests - garden info,  Community events in Westchester,  Environmental Change-Makers community

    A community bread oven

    Last Saturday we had the kickoff meeting for a new project:  building a community bread oven out of cob. What’s cob?  For us in Southern California, the easiest comparison is to think about the adobe bricks used for the missions;…

    January 13, 2015
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