Food | The Greenman Project

About SRI and how it could better feed the world

Mar

2013

SRI, originally a rice farming technique developed in Madagascar by French Jesuit Henri de Laulanie, stands for System of Rice Intensification. This system spawns from over twenty years of observation of “deviant” farmers in the area. Instead of espousing the rice paddy‘s traditional approach, this technique: Transplants the seedlings at a very early stage in the ...

Must read online library 2

Jan

2013

Soil and Health Library is one of those pages I wish I would have seen when I was back in High School and had nothing better to do with my time than skateboard and play video games. Steve Solomon, the founder, and Justin Crawford, the current librarian, should be given a medal for all the work that ...

The secret to free food, almost 1

Jan

2013

I was recently cooking some veggies and , as I was throwing the scraps into the compost bin, I remembered something I read on one of my favorite blogs. Kelly from Rootsimple mentioned a neat trick. What you do is save the butts, or roots, from your green onions. You then plant them and in a fewdays, ...

Organic!

Jan

2012

The return of the “Booch” part 2

Sep

2011

This is part two of a how to brew your very own kombucha. You might want to look at part one first. Once your concoction smells or tastes more vinegary than sweet you can start (This is really more of a trial and error thing). Again, cleanliness is key. Get a ladle and scoop out ...

Bee careful 5

Sep

2011

I recently helped a friend out with getting some honey from his bee hives. Never having been near a hive nor stung I had no natural fear of bees at all, nor did I know if I was allergic. Well, armed with pink dish washing gloves and window screening tied over a hat I was ...

The return of the “Booch”

Sep

2011

It had gotten out of control. I was brewing six quite large jars of Kombucha a week, while making my own organic juices to add after the first fermentation part. One day I get the bright idea to try and use Mate instead of regular tea as a starter and my SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture Of ...

Enter the fortress 1

Jul

2011

I have never worried about cold weather before, nor about any animals eating my bounty. Those days are over… Now I live in an area with plant killing frost and gophers a plenty. In lieu of this, I have created the raise bed fortress. Turn down the lights and queue the drums please: Related posts: ...

Planting time

Jun

2011

So, we’ve been very busy getting our new house to be our new home. There are thing here we’ve never dealt with. For example, mice. The little guys were getting in through all kinds of places. I’ve patched many holes so now they are not partying all night long as often. Related posts: So much ...

Easy harvest

May

2011

Yesterday I went out to the garden to see how it’s all looking and saw that some of my potatoes were ready for the picking. I love this plant. All I do is buy them at the farmer’s market and when they’ve been around for to long and begin to sprout, I plant them. Mostly ...