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"Over the past two decades every issue I have been engaged in as an ecological activist and organic intellectual has revealed that what the industrial economy calls "growth" is really a form of theft from nature and people."
- Vandana Shiva, from _Stolen Harvest_
I grow vegetables and other plants in my small, urban - Portland Oregon - garden. I grow organically and use intensive planting techniques (such as Square Foot). I strive to use sustainable, planet, people and animal friendly methods of gardening. Scroll down for lots of links.
Veganic gardening section of Vegan News
Plant Based Agriculture articles from NAVS
Vegan-Organics the Basic Principles
This is a great gardening related community project. They are worthy of any and all support you can provide them. Or start a group like this in your area.
Check out the web page:Growing Gardens
This group encourages home gardeners to grow and donate extra produce to food banks.
For more information Plant a Row for the Hungry Project
Pictures from The Netherlands and UK, October 2002
This clematis montana is so big and sprawling it's hard to get it all in one picture.
Pictures of the light stand I use for indoor seed starting.
Hardy Geranium Pictures 5/9/02
Some pictures of my vegetable beds
This is a great way to grow vegetables! I use a lot of ideas from How to Grow More Vegetables (than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine) by John Jeavons, and Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew and highly recommend them for any vegetable gardener. Also co authored by Jeavons is Lazy Bed Gardening by John Jeavons and Carol Cox, a great resource if you want to maximize your home grown food supply. Some pictures of my vegetable beds
In my yard currently are these native shrubs: arctostaphylas, ocean spray, evergreen huckleberry, salal, mahonia reptens, thimbleberry, snowberry as well as native varieties of trillium, yarrow, hardy geranium, erigeron, clematis and penstemon. I plant these natives to provide food and habitat for urban fauna and because they are carefree and beautiful.
A short article I wrote for Growing Gardens on Winter Gardening: Winter Gardening
Besides my home made compost, I use amendments such as seaweed extract (Maxicrop), bat and seabird guano, alfalfa meal, kelp meal, wood ashes, greensand, rock phosphate. As my garden becomes more self sustaining and established I decrease my use of outside additions. I try to garden in as vegan way as much as possible. I am judiciously using iron phosphate based slug bait. It works well and does not harm pets or wildlife. See this Oregon State University Extension Service page for an articles on it (click pests, then scroll down for article): Oregon State University Extension Service
A short article on seed starting I wrote for Growing Gardens' Newsletter: Seed Starting
I buy most of my seeds from Nichols Garden Nursery and Territorial Seed Company . Two other seed companies I recommend highly are The Redwood City Seed Company Ecoseeds and Turtle Tree Seed, Camphill Village, Copake NY 12516.
For comments by customers about mail order seed and plant catalogs (not necessarily only organic) try The Plants by Mail FAQ.
A great way to get gardening information is by email. Try the Organic Gardening listserv atOrganic Gardening List (OGL)
A piece of garden related prose I wrote called Spring Growth.
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Updated 3/18/06