Little Green Farm School

This is what our programs are all about: helping folks find their way to a purpose-driven livelihood through permaculture.

If YOUR purpose is tied to the land, learn more about how the Ecological Landscaper Immersion program can help you build a career around that. The world certainly needs it and you can definitely get paid for it!

We'll be hosting a webinar on April 22 at 4pm (PT). Sign up here: http://www.anymeeting.com/PIID=EB56DF8282473C.

Here is a video of a walk under arbor we are building for our Hardy kiwis. Yum!
http://youtu.be/5eEKAxqesrg

Arbor for Kiwis This is a metal arbor we built to grow hardy kiwis on. We will be able to walk under it to pick the fruit. It creates, vertical space, makes a border, define...

We shared a new book on Hybrid hazelnuts a couple of posts ago. This link will take you to a most amazing interview given by Phil Rutter talking about how we as individuals can help breed Hazelnuts and Chestnuts. Info dense!
http://www.permaculturevoices.com/podcast/woody-agriculture-breeding-trees-restoring-a-piece-of-americas-past-and-establishing-a-piece-of-our-agricultural-future-with-phil-rutter-part-1-pvp057/

Woody Agriculture. Breeding Trees, Restoring a Piece of America’s Past and Establishing a Piece... At one point in America's not so recent past the eastern landscape was dominated by one tree, the American Chestnut. At the turn of the last century the American Chestnut occupied a territory…

Our neighbors, Amanda and Koji have started a small unheated aquaponics system. To deal with the critical issue of a fish that can survive in a cold water / unheated system they selected the Pumpkin seed fish as the species that fit the system best. Here is more info about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkinseed

Pumpkinseed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) is a freshwater fish of the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) of order Perciformes. It is also referred to as pond perch, common sunfish, punkys, sunfish, sunny, and kivver.

Hazelnuts can replace soybeans as a crop, restoring millions of acres that are currently eroding due to annual cropping with a system that rebuilds soils and enhances diversity. Check this book out! Stay tuned. There are a lot of talks and info to share about hazelnuts!

Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts by Philip Rutter, Dr. Susan Wiegrefe, Brandon Rutter-Daywater - Chelsea... Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts is the first comprehensive guide for farmers interested in how to get started growing hybrid hazelnuts, a crop designed from the very outset to address a host of problems with conventional modern agriculture. Economically speaking, hazelnuts have a large, existing…

This is a great effort to continue and expand on work that few know about.

TOC — Temperate Orchard Conservancy Temperate Orchard Conservancy (TOC) was established in 2012 to preserve and share genetic diversity of tree fruits that grow in the temperate climate zones of the world.

Ing and I spent hours last night watching videos of one of the best Orchardists / Herb Farmers we've ever learned from. Amazing that much powerful education is free!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu_7bTtHBXeS_ngpe03DrEXnie9V_o1eF

Michael Phillips Holistic Orcharding Compilation of a weekend intensive with Michael Phillips, author the Apple Grower and Holistic Orcharding, hosted by D Acres.

Curtis Stone practices SPIN farming in British Columbia. If you are at all interested in growing food for market, OR maximizing high value crops in very small spaces (your back yard) Curtis Stone has A LOT of good experience to share!
http://youtu.be/t4lnbMNnwuo

Q&A with Urban Farmer Curtis Stone: Top 5 pieces of advice Top 5 pieces of advice for urban farmers getting started 1. Believe in yourself 2. Follow the path of least resistance 3. Source high grade information 4. St...

So EIGHT hours later the results of our lotion making adventure are in! Here's looking forward to all of us having an exciting and creative New Year!

This is what happens when the 12 minute you tube video is implemented in you own kitchen... It looked so EASY on Youtube!

So we made many presents this year. The biggest challange was the Goat Milk Lotion. We found a great you tube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4a0MWJpC_s

How to Make Goat's Milk Lotion