Archive for Helen Atthowe
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Paul Wheaton, Jocelyn Campbell, and Helen Atthowe respond to listener questions. Helen talks about soil testing and base saturation. Helen talks about “bad” compost, and the positive benefits of adding compost to your soil. They talk about some soils potentially… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton and Helen Atthowe talk about Eco-Farm, a conference that goes beyond organic farming into integral land stewardship, and social justice. Helen spoke about veganic permaculture, particularly because people have been wary as of late of using animal manures… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton talks with Helen Atthowe after watching The Beautiful Truth. Helen paraphrases a quote of John Muir’s, saying – when you pull on a single thread in nature, you find that it is attached to everything else. The movie… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton and Helen Atthowe (www.veganicpermaculture.com) watch Geoff Lawton‘s Food Forest video and Helen really loved it. It shows a food forest as they start it, at 6 months, a year, 3 years, 10 years. Paul thinks it is one… Read more…
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Paul Wheaton and Helen Atthowe; (website: www.veganicpermaculture.com) discuss nutrients and soil in agricultural systems, often referring to the methods of Masanobu Fukuoka. They say that, ideally, compost tea and rock dust are unnecessary to utilize in a system, and they… Read more…
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I visit with Helen Atthowe, goddess of the soil and longtime Missoula County Horticultural Extension Agent. We start off talking about compost. She is the most advanced composter I know. And we talk about how composting doesn’t have to be… Read more…
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I visit with Helen Atthowe, goddess of the soil. She has a new web site she calls veganic permaculture.
We talk about how we are going to not talk about pH and conifers. We do talk a bit about conifer… Read more…