cooperative gardening Archives - Earthaven Ecovillage https://www.earthaven.org/tag/cooperative-gardening/ An aspiring ecovillage in a mountain forest setting near Asheville, North Carolina. Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:27:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Raised Beds Anyone? https://www.earthaven.org/regenerative-agriculture/gardens/raised-beds-anyone/ https://www.earthaven.org/regenerative-agriculture/gardens/raised-beds-anyone/#respond Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:24:50 +0000 https://www.earthaven.org/?p=3010 There are many different ways to garden, from the no-work method of Ruth Stout to the double-dig method of John Jeavons. Most of us at Earthaven have our hands in the soil on some level, even if minimally. Our very own Dr. Monique Mazza seems to excel at everything she does. And gardening is no […]

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There are many different ways to garden, from the no-work method of Ruth Stout to the double-dig method of John Jeavons.

Most of us at Earthaven have our hands in the soil on some level, even if minimally.

Our very own Dr. Monique Mazza seems to excel at everything she does. And gardening is no exception. Here she is explaining her raised bed system of gardening.
Dr. Monique Mazza explaining her raised bed gardening system
If you want to know more about gardening and different ways we garden together at Earthaven, check out our Cooperative Gardening and Permaculture Strategies course with Earthaven member and permaculture instructor, Zev Friedman, this Sunday, April 18. It’s online so you can Zoom in from anywhere. We hope to see you there!

I’m so grateful to be connected to you on this journey of life. I hope you’re enjoying the spring.

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]]> https://www.earthaven.org/regenerative-agriculture/gardens/raised-beds-anyone/feed/ 0 Garlic harvesting day! https://www.earthaven.org/regenerative-agriculture/garlic-harvesting-day/ https://www.earthaven.org/regenerative-agriculture/garlic-harvesting-day/#respond Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:25:24 +0000 https://www.earthaven.org/blog/?p=18 Garlic is one of the highest value plants we grow in our Village Terraces neighborhood garden – it’s one of the few things everyone eats and is expensive to buy. I especially enjoy that we plant the bulbs in the fall when it’s cool and other gardening tasks have slowed down, and then the new […]

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Debbie and Steve digging up garlic. Photo by Martha.

Garlic is one of the highest value plants we grow in our Village Terraces neighborhood garden – it’s one of the few things everyone eats and is expensive to buy. I especially enjoy that we plant the bulbs in the fall when it’s cool and other gardening tasks have slowed down, and then the new garlic shoots are the first green and growing inhabitants of the spring garden – well before we’ve organized to plant anything else. Other than a couple weedings, they don’t take much care.

This summer started out with some rain and we’ve had dry weather for most of the past three weeks – excellent garlic weather! The bulbs actually went past ripe before we noticed.

Jonathan and Liz with half the harvested garlic. Photo by Martha.

This morning I went out to harvest them before they stayed in the ground another hot day. Steve, Jonathan, and Liz were in the kitchen considering what farm task the could do together for the morning and came out to help. Marie noticed the activity and joined the party.

After three hours of working together we have enough garlic for the whole neighborhood for the upcoming year curing in our woodshed.

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