Rise Up Rooted Gardens

Mountain Run Permaculture Farm !! 🙌💯🙌

Local Environmental Agriculture Project - LEAP 🙌💯🙌

Know your farmers!

My friends in Florida Kelli and Ryan are great growers and seed savers !!

We're baaack!

After 3 weeks of garden sitting for our friends in North Carolina, we're back in Lake county, Florida, and making the rounds to each of our seed gardens. We are so happy that the rainy season decided to start when we departed, which gave some crops the extra boost they needed before harvest time!

Here's a look at the first harvest of our spring planting of Orange Bulldog and Seminole Pumpkin from our seed gardens at .

We will begin curing these pumpkins for storage and start processing some for seed soon!

New Post: Killing More Honeybees

Experiences farming on the eastern shore of Virginia

https://open.substack.com/pub/jpibiodynamics/p/killing-more-honeybees?r=rt9cv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

If my younger self had known exactly how much work farming would be, he simply would never have begun. I had idealistic notions of working “with” Nature rather than “against” Nature — as if somehow she would spontaneously provide food without effort from me. It turns out that nature is quite happy producing literally anything, and it’s up to me to make sure these are plants that can nourish human beings. It turns out this doesn’t happen without a lot of work.

The same thing is true in the mind. The mind will entertain any ideas, but without constant weeding, tending, and composting, the mind rapidly becomes overrun with weeds, brambles, and ideas that aren’t particularly useful for us. A feral mind makes it extremely hard to focus, so we must cultivate the mind like an inner garden.

One good thing about farming this long is that if I have bad ideas, they aren’t locked away in an ivory tower. If it doesn’t work, there’s no way to convince myself that it did: the plants just die. If you have to eat your ideas, your imagination becomes rather more careful. If I had stayed in the academic world, I could easily have lived in the clouds of crystalline thought, estranged from practical experience and divorced from feedback from the real world. But farming doesn’t allow that, at least not if you want to do it well!

https://open.substack.com/pub/jpibiodynamics/p/killing-more-honeybees?r=rt9cv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Biodynamic Event at Gaia Herbs Farm Hosted by JPI 2024 https://jpibiodynamics.org/products/gaia-jpi-event-may-17th-2024

https://www.therecorderonline.com/articles/couple-sets-up-wilderness-experience-on-bear-mtn/

Bear Mountain Outdoor School was an early project of mine and my co pilot Laurie Berman -well i meant I was the co pilot! Lol! A good time was had by all for almost a decade!!

Couple sets up wilderness experience on Bear Mtn. - The Recorder Online Bear Mountain Lodge, with its panoramic views of Virginia and West Virginia, will house up to 20 campers when it is completed this spring. (Recorder file photo originally published March 17, 1988)Editor’s note: The following article was gleaned from the March 17, 1988 edition of The Recorder Palme...

Nice place to work...💯

We are currently seeking 2 Farm Assistants at the AMI Allegheny Farm in Highland County, VA. This is a unique opportunity to live and work on a thriving yet remote organic farm and education center in an abundant and life-nurturing temperate mountain ecosystem.

Farm Assistants support and are mentored by our core farm staff and organizational leaders, using sustainable production methods in all operational aspects.

This is a seasonal full-time position with compensation ranging from $18.00 - $20.00 an hour, depending on experience.

For a detailed job description and application, please visit our website at amifellows.org/join-our-team

Cassava "catch" of the day!

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✨ Seed The Stars stewards a collection of locally trialed, regionally appropriate, organically grown seeds selected from their best performing “star” varieties that thrive in Florida’s unique growing conditions.

🌱 Their unique varieties of heat tolerant annuals and tropical perennial plants are raised at their Central Florida seed saving gardens converted from underutilized urban lawns. When your seeds wake up, will they be expecting to grow in Florida?

January outdoor chores some rain to ice But one seed order has been made !!

Do this!

Look at theses dahlias !

Registration is live for Appalachian Beginning Forest Farmer Coalition's 2024 Gather to Grow Forest Farming Conference! 🍄🪵🌳

The Gather to Grow Forest Farming Conference will be held in Roanoke, Virginia from March 22-24, 2024 and feature learning, networking, and strategic planning programs that will shape the future of forest farming of woodland crops such as botanicals, mushrooms, and decorative products in Appalachia and beyond.

You can find more information and registration on their website at https://hubs.la/Q0298X1B0.

Back cover!! Vabf.org sign up y’all !

Paonia skies…and a wee little grand kiddo at the park today!!!

To every season ….