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Episode-129- Gaia’s Garden Book Review

Published on October 8, 2012 By Tony Teolis

Gaia’s Garden is a guide to home scale permaculture by Toby Hemenway. To the ancient Greeks Gaia was Mother Nature. All of the other gods descended from her and her union with Uranus the god of the sky. So it’s only fitting that as we refer to nature we still do so in a way [...]

Episode-117- Harvest Garden Vegetables For The Dinner Table

Published on August 4, 2012 By Tony Teolis

Come and see what is beng harvested for the dinner table.  A wonderful display of delicious food that you can learn to grow on your own too. To Do ListHome.com It started as a way to keep track of things I do around the home to make life better. That includes permaculture and gardening and today [...]

Episode-109- Grow More Tomatoes With Trellis

Published on July 4, 2012 By Tony Teolis

           Tomatoes are America’s favorite vegetable or fruit to grow at home. The first time I grew tomatoes I didn’t know what I was doing. I had successfully sprouted my first plants from seed but they soon turned spindly with just a long stem and a little leaf but they soon [...]

Episode-107- Make Your Own Food And Flowers – Part 1

Published on July 1, 2012 By Tony Teolis

Tour our gardens with today’s video and see for yourself what is possible with planning, hard work, hugelkultur, seeds from SouthernExposure.com and plants from NourseFarms.com. Of course special credit goes to

Episode-95- Bring Dead Lawn Back To Life

Published on May 24, 2012 By Tony Teolis

How To Green A Dead Patch Of Lawn  Integrate Rather Than Segregate – “Many hands make light work” By putting the right things in the right place, relationships develop between those things and they work together to support each other. Every time I attempted to repair the dead patch ended in failure as there was

Episode-62- How To Design Gardens From Patterns For Beauty And Production

Published on March 16, 2012 By Tony Teolis

 Permaculture is a theory of ecological design which seeks to develop sustainable human settlements and agricultural systems, by attempting to model them on natural ecosystems. Permaculture principle #7 Design from patterns to details: By stepping back, we can observe patterns in nature and society. These can form the backbone of our designs, with the details [...]

Episode-47- Food Not Lawns – A Call To Action

Published on February 15, 2012 By Tony Teolis

Show notes Subscribe Music – Blue Devil Plain Videos Food Not Lawns – Book FoodNotLawns.net Heather C. Flores Gardening – We are taking Action for life and  permaculture in northern Virginia. Turning the home into a homestead and business. Wikipedia: Topsoil Better Soil USDA: Soil Erosion 12 Principles of Permaculture American lawns use 270 billion [...]

Episode-37- New Square Foot Gardening Pesticide Not Needed

Published on January 26, 2012 By Tony Teolis

Song of the Day – Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling - Video Show notes Subscribe Music – Blue Devil Plain Videos New Square Foot Gardening Pesticide Not Needed With This Style Mel Bartholomew Gardening – Episode 32 (lots of great garden planning ideas and downloads…seeds, berries, potatoes and more). We are taking Action for life [...]

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