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[https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2018-3-may-june/taste-test/7-gardener-approved-must-haves-grow-your-own-food by Novella Carpenter 30/4/18 Sierra] | [https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2018-3-may-june/taste-test/7-gardener-approved-must-haves-grow-your-own-food by Novella Carpenter 30/4/18 Sierra] | ||
In uncertain times, a garden can feel like a sanctuary. It doesn't matter if you have a windowsill planter, a plot in a community garden, or a backyard orchard—growing your own organic fruits and vegetables is a small but tangible way to bypass Big Ag and create habitat for butterflies, bees, and birds. Gardening also nurtures the gardener: Studies show that inhaling Mycobacterium vaccae, a common soil microbe, can ease depression. Here are some tried-and-true tools to aid your earthly endeavors. | In uncertain times, a garden can feel like a sanctuary. It doesn't matter if you have a windowsill planter, a plot in a community garden, or a backyard orchard—growing your own organic fruits and vegetables is a small but tangible way to bypass Big Ag and create habitat for butterflies, bees, and birds. Gardening also nurtures the gardener: Studies show that inhaling Mycobacterium vaccae, a common soil microbe, can ease depression. Here are some tried-and-true tools to aid your earthly endeavors. | ||
=====Organic agriculture: deeply rooted in science and ecology===== | |||
[https://grist.org/sustainable-farming/2011-04-20-eliot-coleman-essay-organic/ by Eliot Coleman 21/4/11 Grist] | |||
Coleman’s Four Season Farm: Start with biodiversity and well-nourished soil, add some appropriate technology, then harvest lots of healthy food. Photo: Barbara DamroschOrganic farming is often falsely represented as being unscientific. However, despite the popular assumption that it sprang full born from the delusions of 60s hippies, it has a more extensive, and scientifically respectable, provenance. If you look back at the first flush of notoriety in the 1940s, the names most often mentioned, Sir Albert Howard and J. I. Rodale, rather than being the initiators, were actually just popularizers of a groundswell of ideas that had begun to develop some 50 years earlier in the 1890s. | |||
