Grow Organic Food!!

I am really into the idea of people growing their own food. I volunteer at a community garden, and read a fair bit about gardening and farming. I have friends who just bought land and are going to start some sort of research farm/teaching farm/way to grow their own food and maybe make some money, too. My main blog

Friday, December 30, 2005

Permaculture show on Terra Verde

Ok, at the end of the show they said that it had been recorded in summer of 2004. That explains some of the things I'm talking about below.

I'm listening to part of today's Terra Verde show about Permaculture. There are a lot of WRONG statements in here:

-the garden "on MLK about 3 blocks north of Ashby" that the guy's student(s) helped design is no longer there

-there is not a surplus of classes and ways to learn about permaculture- if there were, they'd be cheaper and more accessible. the only ones they listed are hard to get to. They talked about the ones at Merritt College. there are also workshops and stuff at the Alameda Point Collaborative (how is one supposed to get there? is the land safe for growing food?)

they are talking about a 2-week course that info can be found out about at permaculture.com

also talking about urbanpermacultureguild.org

funny, when i look around the kpfa site for Terre Verde, I keep seeing all these different links to websites like whirledbank.org and moles.org, which is Project Underground. there was a weather service alert in the middle of the show, i wonder if that will be in the archives...?