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Fixing agriculture with agroforestry and diverse agroecologies

https://blog.ecosia.org/fix-agriculture/

“regenerative agriculture practices. Combined with reforestation, they could take most of the CO2 emissions which have been released in the last century out of the air again. We also believe that regenerative agriculture will play a key part in providing nutritious food to our ever growing human family.”

“Instead of vast monocultures, we should combine various species on one and the same field. When done right, the different plants support each other’s growth and dramatically reduce damage from pests. Intercropped fields have higher yields than monocultures without depending on chemical fertilizer or pesticides.” Diversity vertically and across the landscape provides resilience, hedging bets against things that can go wrong and for things that can go right with different species and processes.

Herb Harvest

The herb garden has been thriving pretty well since we started it off. Sage took a bit to get started but even that’s doing well now thankfully.

We’ve harvested a little bit earlier in the summer and have hung a tiny bit to dry, but today was the first big gathering. Today also marks the clean out and start of using our enclosed porch – an odd small room attached to our kitchen, which we’d closed off all winter – as an herb drying space.

Here are some photos of today’s harvest hanging:

Herb garden after pruning/harvesting

Fennel flowers forming

Herbs bunched up and hanging by rubberbands

Herbs hanging to dry

Vegetable Garden Update: Late Summer 2018

We got our garden started a little late this year, with house projects and whatnot taking our attention along the way. Since planting, the plants have been neglected a lot, though we did try to keep a decent watering routine during early/mid summer droughts (in July if I recall correctly). As we had fairly regular and heavy rain this past month, we’d let the plants do their thing, and they sure did!

We’ve harvested herbs and vegetables here and there over the past month or a little longer. In the table below I’ll list a rough approximation of the bounty we’re enjoying, sharing with others, and on occasion inevitably returning some to the Earth as compost.

 

Plant Apx. Amount Harvested
Tomato 1 cherry, 5 larger
Cucumber 5 (lost many to gofer and chipmunks or squirrels)
Kale 3 leafs (lost many to gofer)
Fennel 4 large bundles
Sage 2 bundles
Thyme 3 small bundles
Basil 2 large bundles
Parsley 1 large bundle
Shiitake 5 (pint-sized) boxes