While reading my new Permaculture Magazine I was struck by an article that spoke of an ancient Incan way of agriculture called Raised Field Agriculture. They would dig up canals near lakes and pile the soil on the sides to create raised beds. These canals help the plants by providing water most, if not all, of…
Category: food
Hollywood Farmers’ Market in trouble
If you’ve been following the gossip about the Hollywood Farmers’ Market, I’ve got some news. If not here’s some background. As the Market’s street closure permit was expiring, the LA Film School (feel free to call and criticise) decides to complain that because of the Market, one of it’s three parking lots is closed for…
Eden Dale is the place to be
I believe that here are no coincidences. So as you might have read, I went to a Transition meeting a little while back. I signed up to their news letter, but being as they are kinda far I asked for more local contacts. Lo and behold they send me the info of a an…
Great Permaculture related radio
This page has some great talks. I particularly enjoyed this one. It has three guests. The first is Penny Livingston Stark, she is the founder of RDI. A permaculture school in Bolinas California (Erin took me there for my birthday a couple of years ago. Great place to visit). She talks about the origins…
Book Shelf: The Urban Homestead
I heard of Erik Knutzen about two years ago. He did a talk at a local gathering promoting his new (at the time) book The Urban Homestead. He spoke of water harvesting, brewing spirits, gardening, etc. Needles to say he had my full attention. I bought this book that same night. I gobbled up…
Book Shelf: Omnivore’s Dilemma
I just finished reading Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan (OK I really just listened to the audio book, thanks Los Angeles Public Library). It is a very insight full and well written book. In it, he goes into detail about three types of meals. One from industrial food, organic, and foraged/hunted. First he talks about…