“The soil stewards of generations past recognized that healthy soil is not only imperative for our food security—it is also foundational for our cultural and emotional well-being. Western science is catching up, now understanding that exposure to the microbiome of a healthy soil offers benefits to mental health that rival antidepressants. After mice were treated […]

 It’s 2019: A New Year “If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.” Robert BraultSeven years ago, a small team of people began a tiny urban farm. We had less than one-eighth of an acre, which we planted intensively, then took a deep breath and put out […]

“The principles of neighborhood and subsistence will be disparaged by the globalists as ‘protectionism’—and that is exactly what it is. It is a protectionism that is just and sound, because it protects local producers and is the best assurance of adequate supplies to local customers…The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of […]

Garden School Cover Crops: Feed Your Soil Saturday, Oct. 13 11 am to noon 3310 N. OlieWhat’s the easiest way to turn Oklahoma’s heavy red clay into rich, loamy soil? Cover crops! By planting cover crops every fall and/or summer, you can increase soil fertility and tilth, prevent soil erosion, suppress weeds and attract pollinating […]

“Beginning right now, each of us can choose to lead a materially simpler life, to conserve rather than consume, to own fewer things and give away what we don’t need; we can undertake fewer activities, and those we do undertake we can pursue with more care and delight. We can move around less, and pay […]

Beans They’re not like peaches or squash. Plumpness isn’t for them. They like being lean, as if for the narrow path. The beans themselves sit qui- etly inside their green pods. In- stinctively one picks with care, never tearing down the fine vine, never not noticing their crisp bod- ies, or feeling their willingness for […]

“Money spent on food sends a signal that accelerates or redirects the changes that are going on all of the time in the food system. …We influence the future by the way we vote with our food dollars.“Of course it is not easy to vote wisely. To do so means that we must think about […]

“What would happen if we were to start thinking about food as less of a thing and more of a relationship? In nature, that is of course precisely what eating has always been: relationships among species in systems we call food chains, or food webs, that reach all the way down to the soil…There develops […]

“As humans we come into being as an integral part of this millionfold diversity of life expression…From the moment of awakening our consciousness, the universe strikes wonder and fulfillment throughout our human mode of being. Humans and the universe were made for each other. Our experience of the universe finds festive expression in the great […]

Garden School: Pocket Gardens Saturday, May 26 11 am to noon 3310 N. Olie If you have room for a pot on the patio, you can grow a pocket garden. Whether it’s a handful of herbs, a snacking garden, or a pollinator way station, pocket gardens are an easy way to get started with gardening. […]