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Blackberry Jam
The following is an excerpt from a book about a mother and daughter’s journey through cooking and learning the earth. Blackberries take me right back to my childhood. They stir up memories of summer adventure in oppressive August heat, and my wonderful friend Nicoll. I can still picture exactly where the best blackberries grew near […]
John Liu: Seeking and Finding
John Liu is an advisor to UFP on ecological restoration and regeneration. Since the late 1970s I have been a professional observer of transformational change at a very large scale. My career began as a television producer and cameraman with CBS News covering stories like the Rise of China and the Collapse of the Soviet […]
<span class="black">We brush cleared 6 acres of forest in preparation for California’s fire season</span>
Purposeful Fire
We’ve started a process of doing controlled burns on our land. California is allowing for more intentional burning to quell the increasing forest fire trend we’ve been seeing across the state over the past 3 years. There is also an initiative by those indigenous to the area to see more purposeful burning. There are many […]
New Italian Bees
Today we got 2 new bee boxes. They are an Italian variety, well known for a variety of great traits, such as their gentleness, fertility, reluctance to swarm, zeal for building comb, white honey-cappings, a willingness to enter supers, cleanliness, resistance to disease, and the tendency to collect flower honey rather than honeydew. We put […]
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<span class="black">John D. Liu, renowned ecologist and journalist featured in <em>Kiss the Ground</em>, visits Earth Program to help in improving local ecology and preventing forest fires</span>
Earth Program celebrated six months of training in permaculture best practices, including four novel composting techniques and slow-burning biochar creation to restore the soil
Watch: Kiss The Ground
The solution is right under our feet.