Growing More of Our Own Food on the Homestead
*Table of Contents for Grow It! Section is at bottom of this page.*
This section focuses mostly on working with the plant kingdom—garden, orchard, greenhouse, etc.—to produce more of our own food. It includes articles on vermicomposting (composting with earthworms), since worm castings are a big part of our garden fertility program—as well as one on using the chicken flock to do the work of composting. A new project I'm excited about is using the black soldier fly as an ally for conversion of organic “wastes” to resources.
Eventually, this section will embrace mushroom cultivation as well (though of course mushrooms are not plants). ~Harvey, February 2010