I’m glad to see veganic agriculture finally getting some publicity within the USA. Explicitly veganic farming has caught on more quicky in Canada, the UK, and Europe. Elsewhere in the world, farmers in low-income countries are increasingly rejecting the “Green Revolution” pesticides and fertilizers imposed on them by means of neo-colonialism and returning to [...]
Seed starting set from the discount hardware store: $9
Mini-greenhouse from the fancy garden catalog: $99
Starting seeds you saved last year in cut-up salvaged soda bottles lined with pages from back issues of the EarthFirst! Journal: truly priceless
I’ve been offline for what I now realize — from the panicked calls from people wondering if I’m okay [...]
Because I’m working on a related anthology chapter, I finally finished typing up a talk I gave back in April of last year. I’ll post it as a document in the texts section of my website, whenever I get around to fixing that up, but here it is now, for anybody who’s interested.
[...]
I’ve noticed that quite a few people are finding this blog while looking for tips on veganic gardening, so I guess I’d better follow up my post on cruelty-free gardening with a few more helpful hints. In that post, I focused on soil amendments, giving suggestions for alternatives to animal-based fertilizers. Now, I’ll cover the [...]
“Why did you move there in the first place?” people often ask when hearing the story of how we accidentaly started a chicken sanctuary in the middle of poultry country. I never can answer the question adequately, but one factor was gardening. When I worked as a tenant organizer in Ann Arbor, I started a [...]
