A permaculture farm is more about managing natural inter-relationships with plants, insects and wildlife. Relevant threads Saving land and labor and increasing profitabiity. This is about agricultural ecology and managing interrelationships rather than crops. More information on her approach and work is available here.

High School students performed a 6 week grow test with Hydro Grow's 504w vertical light that was mounted inside OmegaGarden's Volksgarden.

A report on Ethan Schaffer (recipient of the Brower Youth Award in 2002) who has created Organic Volunteers, a national outreach and education program for sustainability and organic food systems.

A former president of Fetzer Vineyards and then  CEO of the Mendocino Wine Company, fourth-generation California wine-maker Paul Dolan has successfully pioneered the path to sustainability in the California wine industry. Article on his winery as a life-giving system here.  More information on Rudolf Steiner the creator of biodynamic farming may be found here.

Order Paul's book, True to Our Roots, from Amazon by clicking on the image or visit your local bookstore.

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Miquel Santisteven, an ethnobotanist, farmer and seed saving activist from Taos who has developed a long-term collaboration with nature, talks about the adaptation of heritage crops, traditional dry-land farming systems, gathering wild plants, water strategies, and the significance of farming his grandmothers land.