Paul Stamets is a mushroom evangelist, scientist and entrepreneur. He is also a gifted writer, I realized when I started reading his masterpiece “Mycelium Running”. The book is a celebration to all living mushrooms and mycelia, describing the multitude of useful functions that the mycelia perform in our soils. Little … Continue reading
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Permaculture is a way of farming or gardening, where diversity is the driver to improve the soils and create sustainable symbioses, where pesticides and synthetic fertilizers are unnecessary. In many ways it is a step back to the pre-industrialized agriculture that dominated worldwide until the introduction of the tractor. Sepp … Continue reading
Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008) wrote a beautiful book about natural farming in the late 1970’s. It is a hymn to living and breathing with Nature’s rhythms. Part poetry, part philosophy, part farming. The book is full of practical advice on how to think to develop a natural garden by trial and … Continue reading