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Paul Wheaton and Jocelyn Campbell review chapter 9 of Gaia’s Garden, by Toby Hemenway. Paul first suggests doing an RV road trip. Chapter 9 talks about guilds and super guilds, and how do you pick the plants for your area.… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton and Jocelyn Campbell review Gaia’s Garden the second part of Chapter 8, by Toby Hemenway. The chapter is called: Creating Communities for the Garden, and it addresses polyculture. He shares what he would plant in his apple tree… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton and Jocelyn Campbell review Gaia’s Garden the first part of Chapter 8, by Toby Hemenway, on polyculture. First, Paul talks about his response from the kickstarter video he put up for his CFL project. He mentions his video… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton and Jocelyn Campbell review Gaia’s Garden Chapter 7, by Toby Hemenway: Bringing in the bees, birds, and other helpful animals. Polyculture attracts a diverse home ecosystem, which makes things more resilient and healthy. Paul shares his llama poop… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton and Jocelyn Campbell first share about Paul’s new mullein video, and then one he made on native plants with Toby Hemenway. They then review chapter 6 of Toby’s book, Gaia’s Garden, which is titled “Plants for Many Uses.”… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton and Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden, talk about native plants. Toby shares about preferring native, and then, when the native doesn’t do the job, bringing in plants known not to be a problem or take over. He… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton and Jocelyn Campbell discuss chapter 5 of Gaia’s Garden, by Toby Hemenway. The chapter was on catching, conserving, and using water. Toby writes of “the 5 fold path to water wisdom,” which includes: 1) having rich soil with… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton, Jocelyn Campbell, and Dave Bennett review chapter 4 of Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway. They discuss “dirt” vs “soil.” Paul brings up a recording he saw recently of Alan Savory on desertification, which covers the importance of grazing,… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton, Jocelyn Campbell, and Dave Bennett read Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway and review it chapter by chapter. The forward talks about creating an ecosystem in a jar, and the preface introduces the “meadow-inspired food garden” in which it… Read more…