HOME TOWN FARMS.. Vertical Organic Urban Farming

Home Town Farms combines proven vertical farming (growing) technologies in such a way that drastically reduces the amount of water, fuel, fertilizer, packaging and land that traditional farms use to grow the same amount of food. Home Town Farms will virtually eliminate the cost of transporting produce hundreds if not thousands of miles by setting up vertical farms in densely populated areas with direct to consumer sales, on location where the food is grown in addition to wholesale sales to local farmers markets, restaurants and grocery stores. Urban Farming that is economically viable today!
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Organic homemade ways to keep the bugs and fungus away from my garden?

Question by Mrs.Eloff: Organic homemade ways to keep the bugs and fungus away from my garden?
I am starting a garden this fall with berry bushes and leafy greens. I have been doing a bunch of reasearch because I have never had a garden before and some of my plants are prone to bugs and fungus. I want my garden to be as organic as possible so I don’t want chemical spray. Anyone know any good homemade concoctions I can make to help? Thanks =D

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Answer by Laurie
I will just name one product: neem. It is good for controlling some fungal diseases and many insects. You can buy it at places like Home Depot. It’s usually packaged as a spray with a name that indicates it’s uses, not as neem. Just look at the active ingredients, and it should say 70% neem oil. It is approved for organic production. Make sure it is labeled for your crops.

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Organic Gardening Compost ? An Essential Element Of Organic Gardening

Are you planning to follow organic gardening from now onwards? Do you think using the inorganic garden supplies for your garden is not only harming your crops but also you and your most valuable environment? Well, if this so then you should be aware of the fact that organic gardening remains incomplete without organic gardening compost. This plays a crucial role in organic gardening because it helps in determining the life of the plants along with the essential insects that help in the growth of the plants.

Organic gardening compost consists of leaves, twigs, manure, rotten fruits, and other such natural wastes. All these waste products will gradually decay in this compost and turn into beneficial nutrients that your plants require to survive and grow. Organic gardening compost also helps even out your garden soil. Besides improving the soil’s structure, it also affects positively on its ventilation system. Moreover, organic compost helps the soil retain more water, thereby improving its retention power too.

To create organic gardening compost, first of all, you need a compost pit. Once you have that with you, you will require the essential garden tools. Now, you have to dig a hole of such a size that it can contain all the natural waste that you are planning to throw into it in near future. If you do not have a proper compost pit then you can also create organic gardening compost above the ground but for that you will need ample space. However, it is not highly suggested to create compost above the ground, as it could be hazardous because of the presence of insects, live micro-organisms and the smell of the decaying process

Once you prepare organic gardening compost pit, you will need a strong pitchfork or a shovel to turn over the compost. Using these tools only, you will be able to use the material for your plants. You can throw in tea or coffee grounds along with eggshells in the organic gardening compost. These items are easily available in each home and have different levels of nitrogen and other important elements. When they are put into the compost, they can turn the thing into something ideal for gardening and can be very beneficial for the plants.

You can also add some manure to this organic gardening compost. For example, use cow’s manure to make it easier for you to gather it later. However, there are certain things that you should avoid throwing into this compost. These are animal fats, bones, trimmings that may contain plant diseases. These are some of the products that can pollute the compost pile and could be harmful for your and your plants’ health.

Create organic gardening compost to help your plants grow and make your garden look more beautiful than ever!

Summary: Creating organic gardening compost is not a difficult job. It can be easily made and it proves very beneficial for the plants growing the garden. The compost pile that comes out when the natural wastes are properly decayed contains essential nutrients that help in improving the soil and the growth of the plants.

How to Plant a Garden in the Snow

This video from KitchenGardeners.org shows that with the right seeds, information and a bit of holiday magic you can grow just about anything and at any time of the year. NB You have to be a child wearing a red santa hat in the midst of a holiday blizzard for this technique to work. Enjoy!

Organic Garden Cempaka

A video for our group’s project submission for the 2011 World Environment Day Contest Link to our project: www.projectearth.net Credits: Song: Hello – Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette
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Monty Don – Around the world in 80 Gardens

Monty Talks about his new book and TV series. Monty Don’s incredible journey searching for the world’s 80 most inspirational gardens. Accompanies a 10 part x 1 hour BBC2 television series for January 2008 – the most ambitious international gardening series ever undertaken by British television. The gardens chosen will include recognisable gardens of supreme beauty and interest as well as Monty’s personal electic choice. Monty approaches each garden questioning what makes it special? Why do people garden and is the definition of a garden universal? Part Palin, part Cruickshank, part Gardener’s World, this programme will be the first of its kind and will feature an extraordinary range of places and gardens. ‘If I have learned only one thing from my travels around the world it is that no garden is an island. Context is everything.’ Monty Don visits each continent in this landmark series on gardens of the world. We are introduced to the unique floating gardens of the Amazon and the colourful alpine flower meadows of Norway, modest domestic gardens in Havana and Bali, Monet’s world-famous Giverny and the Dutch tour-de-force Het Loo, the formal magnificence of Renaissance Italian water gardens, the tropical planting traditions of Thailand, and the intriguing fusion of indigenous and colonial garden cultures in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Each garden is placed in context, horticultural preconceptions are abandoned and Monty is constantly surprised by the unexpected …
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growing your own food organic edible gardening adventures

nova and roberto (along with little Penny Reh’s help) keep at it with all the work at the growing-your-greens community garden.
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organic gardening is organophosphates ok?

Question by kelli: organic gardening is organophosphates ok?
is it ok to use organophosphates on an organic garden? Is this still organic?

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Answer by Clear Sky
I am in an organic gardening class. You can try looking it up in www.pesticideinfo.org, although I could not find it there but anyway organophosphate is a highly potent nerve toxin and a leading cause of completed suicide in rural developing countries. I think the doses you would use on a plant would not kill you, but it can kill you if you ingest it in large amounts. Organic sources of phosphates include Rock Phosphate, bonemeal and alfalfa meal. Organophosphate is a chemical term referring to something that chemist understand, to a chemist anything with a carbon molecule in it is “organic” but “organic” as in organic gardening has a slightly different definition, ie, not using synthetic fertilizers/pesticides.

Just to double check, I looked it up and organophosphate is not listed in either of my Rodale organic gardening encyclopedias. You might want to get one of them, they are not expensive and good reference. Esp the Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening, really pretty photos, they even make compost look pretty! They have lists of what thinks are organic sources for certain nutrients. They focus more on what is safe to use, though, not what to avoid, but I think the safe things are a much smaller list.

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How to Harvest Lettuce

Video on how to easily harvest your lettuce. Once your lettuce grows to about 4-6 inches, you can harvest it. You want to place your thumb and pointer fingers about 2 inches from the soil and gently break the leaf off. The plant should then be able to reproduce for another harvest. For more information, please visit www.UrbanOrganicGardener.com.
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GreenDreams Container Gardening

This is the beginning of of our backyard container garden, so excuse the mess. Subscribe, so you can be notified when we update how it’s coming. I’ll be uploading more slideshows once it’s starts to fills in a bit more. If you’d like any help with the install of a container garden in your backyard, or any other gardening system: Check us out on facebook.com/GreenDreamsFlorida & hit “like”. (website is under construction, but coming very soon: greendreamsFL.com) Retail & Display location opening soon in Odessa, FL. If you live in the Tampa Bay area, contact us by email for more information: greendreamsFL@yahoo.com

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