Category: permaculture

Food plants that grow like weeds: all of 'em!!!
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Food plants that grow like weeds: all of ‘em!!!

By Kurt Heidinger on Jan 02, 2012 in Director's Notes, beauty, bees, citizenship, consumerism, ecology, ecology, economy, endosymbiosis, food weeds, imagination, locavore, permaculture, sustainability, time

Been so hollydazed lately I’m determined, right now, to link you to every food weed I’ve not yet mentioned in the past two months. It’s time to order seeds!! and when we’ve ordered ‘em, we won’t have to think about food weeds anymore…until spring. We’ve looked @ mustards, tatsoi, wineberries, black walnuts, arugula, shallots, tomatillos, [...]

Food plants that grow like weeds: shallots
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Food plants that grow like weeds: shallots

By Kurt Heidinger on Dec 08, 2011 in Director's Notes, food weeds, locavore, permaculture, sustainability

Shallots are better tasting and more expensive than onions—and, unlike onions, they grow like weeds! Which is another way of saying: they’re easy to grow. I demand you order some starter bulbs immediately. The moment you see mustards coming up next spring, go and plant your bulbs in rich soil, in a full-sun location. They’ll [...]

Food plants that grow like weeds: mustard
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Food plants that grow like weeds: mustard

By Kurt Heidinger on Nov 20, 2011 in Director's Notes, ecology, food weeds, locavore, permaculture, sustainability

Welcome to our new series, just in time for the holidays! Since imagination is key to our survival (it allows us to step outside fixed ways of viewing things, and thereby prepares us to evolve beyond our present condition) let’s imagine taking Johnny Appleseed one step further. Think of the wild raspberry bush, and how [...]

hazelnutting
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hazelnutting

By Kurt Heidinger on Sep 05, 2011 in Director's Notes, beauty, economy, locavore, permaculture, sustainability

Harvest time brings yucky stuff like stinky rotten turnips and disgusting blight-black tomatoes; but it also delivers wonderful surprises—like hazel nuts! I ordered three tiny hazel nut (also called filbert) trees a few years ago from Fedco and this year they produced a couple of pounds of nuts. I give them them an A+, because [...]

thinking like a honeybee
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thinking like a honeybee

By Kurt Heidinger on May 11, 2011 in Director's Notes, bees, ecology, endosymbiosis, locavore, permaculture, sustainability

Yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting Warm Colors Apiary in So. Deerfield with the lively & smart 7th graders who attend Jane Lucia’s science classes at the Williston Northampton School. I jumped at the invite not only b/c Jane is a talented educator who likes to get her kids out into the field; but [...]

Permaculture and "Weed-Eating"
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Permaculture and “Weed-Eating”

By Kurt Heidinger on Jul 11, 2010 in Director's Notes, economy, locavore, permaculture

This post from the NYTs about purslane, an easy to find weed and superfood, brings me back to some of the discussions we’ve had at Grown in Westhampton. Permaculture means “permanent culture,” and is a concept more or less allied with the concepts of “sustainable economy” and “support your local farmer.” In its most authentic [...]