[Gardening] Organic at home?

Send Gardening mailing list submissions to gardening(a)eastraleigh.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.eastraleigh.org/mailman/listinfo/gardening or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to gardening-request(a)eastraleigh.org You can reach the person managing the list at gardening-owner(a)eastraleigh.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Gardening digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Introductions? (Ginger Deason) 2. Growing taters (Vanessa Van Horn) 3. Re: Gardening Digest, Vol 1, Issue 11 (Timberley Valentine) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 12:56:02 -0400 From: Ginger Deason &lt;gdeason(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Gardening] Introductions? To: Gardening &lt;gardening(a)eastraleigh.org&gt; Message-ID: &lt;BANLkTinwYt88SJyU38wgAtkDsCxaPF-zEg(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hey Everyone! I agree, this is a great thread! And a great listserv! My name is Ginger Deason and my husband and I have lived in East Raleigh for almost two years (but were gone for 1.5 yr in the middle - we just came back!). I have had a backyard garden of some form for about five years, but gardened a LOT with my dad when I was growing up in rural Alabama. For years I have worked in some form or fashion in outreach and education associated with sustainable agriculture or forestry and community gardening, so I have a lot of "book knowledge" and courses behind me, although I often still feel like a novice! There's always something to learn! I am a perpetual student of John Jeavons' Biointensive Gardening<http://www.growbiointensive.org/>and still have quite a way to go since we were gone last year, which would have been the third year into my garden. I kinda had to start all over this year, but it's not been too hard. My focus right now is on diversified veggies, mainly ones that I know we will eat all of. I plan on getting some fruit trees, but that might be a year or so down the road. The tornado has given us a lot more sun in the back yard so I also plan on expanding my garden, also down the road. And adding some chickens (also down the road!). The bike tour idea is a great one! I'd be into that! And I was the one who suggested an East Raleigh Urban Garden tour and a couple of people have emailed me (gdeason(a)gmail.com) to say they were interested in helping plan. If you are interested and haven't emailed me yet, please do! Have a great day! Ginger 2319 Stevens PS: I LOVE birds too and am trying my best to make my yard as bird friendly as possible. We have a nest of baby bluebirds in a box that's close enough to the deck to hear! They're awesome and will probably fledge around Memorial Day weekend, so come on over if you want to see some babies blues! PPS: The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS<http://www.cefs.ncsu.edu/>) has many courses on gardening/farming/animal husbandry throughout the year. They're located in Goldsboro, so it's a hike, but check out their calendar if you're interested and maybe if people ever want to attend a course we could carpool. Most courses are cheap to free and there's one on On-Farm Habitat for Ecosystem Services (May 25) which may or may not be appropriate for smaller-scale urban gardens, but I might look into it. And it's free! On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Ryan Parker &lt;kennethryanparker(a)gmail.com other 7 an five bean path as japonicum is in Hearty so stages get has wrote: ideas. to and -- Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money. ~ 19th century Cree saying Hasta que el ?ltimo ?rbol sea cortado, hasta que el ?ltimo r?o sea contaminado, hasta que el ?ltimo pescado sea atrapado; solo entonces nos daremos cuenta que el dinero no se puede comer. ~ profecia Indios Cree