Rachel Butler's Blog – March 2010 Archive (2)

I love getting to know gardeners; whether novice or generational, they all have their little tricks of the trade. I remember my Grandma Garcia's tricks for rooting avocado seeds, toothpicks, correct positioning on her window sill and honestly...nearly stagnant water. In my permaculture class, one of the students was incorporating moonlight into her flow diagram. A flow diagram is charting movement over your land, water, soil, animals, sunlight and in this case moonlight.…



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I was in permaculture class on Saturday and I heard the term BioDynamic Farming for the first time, so I wanted to do a little research. Biodynamic agriculture is a method of organic farming with homeopathic composts that treats farms as unified and individual organisms, emphasizing balancing the holistic development and interrelationship of the soil, plants, animals as a self-nourishing system without external inputs insofar as this… Continue