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Growing Native Wild Vegetables
"Have you ever gone out and foraged for wild foods? Perhaps you found a huckleberry bush covered with sweet juicy berries. What about wild onions? Miners lettuce? Waterleaf? Stinging Nettle?
These are all examples of native wild vegetables but there are many more than these. This week’s blog post – How to Get Started with Native Wild Vegetables – dives into these amazing wild foods and how to use them in your garden and on your homestead."
Wonders of Whakatane - The World's First Vertigraph
"...if you paint a picture on the vertical sides of some stairs, it will give you a neat image looking at it from the distance. This is called a Vertigraph, as I learned from an information panel next to Whakatane's own stair-art."
We're Graduating Two Of Our Pioneer Trainees - Silvia Ajih & Franca Mbom
"Despite the electricity challenges we are facing, we wish to officially announce the graduation of two our pioneer trainees, Mbom Franca and Ajih Sylvia on Sunday 7th July 2019.
Franca joined 
[99 Reasons Why Earthships Are Fuc*!ng Awesome](https://steempeak.com/ecotrain/@eco-alex/99-reasons-why-earthship-s-are-fuc-ng-awesome-compilation)
"Some of you may have noticed this series come out in parts. I'm sure it was hard to catch them all, and if there is one series that needs a compilation it is this one! This post will now make up the content of my second book, that is now close to completion! I will be looking for a publisher very shortly, and hope to avoid using the dreaded Amazon and their centralised model of commerce.. which can be hard to do as these behemoths get bigger and more powerful. So, if any of you know of a good ethical publisher who covers ecological themes I'd love to hear from you!
This book is also a fundraiser for my gift-economy community project! If it does well, it will speed up the process of buying land so I can then look at getting a group of people together who want to be a part of this new paradigm. With that said, here is the full list of 99 Reasons Why I have spent the last 21 years of my life almost totally devoted and directed at promoting Earthship Biotecture."
[Can We Make The Environment Profitable?](https://steempeak.com/environment/@minismallholding/can-we-make-the-environment-profitable-rmwjwbdd)
"...perhaps we need to discover how to profit even more from doing things in a less harmful way. We need more trees, but ideally they should also be native trees. So can we create a market for native foods?
I recently read an article in Grass Roots Magazine on a local couple who have started a business growing and producing native Australian super foods. In a state where water is in such short supply, it makes so much sense to be growing native foods. South Australia had so much land cleared when the settlers first arrived and that land is now no good for growing the usual crops. Farmers are struggling to get the water they need for conventional crops, so if the market for native foods can grow, then surely that's the way to go."
"Reality fades away
The unconscious comes to play
Watching mesmerised
Soul energised."
"Ultimately, play in most animal species is about practicing what it means to be an adult. Play is how children grow, explore, and learn. The freer the play, the more opportunity for growth. What I mean is that, when adults aren't structuring the play for them or interfering with children's play, children learn much more. So much of children's lives are so structured. So often people try to do things for their kids, solve problems for them, offer them remedies for their boredom. Then we wonder why they can't function as adults. They didn't raise themselves. They need the freedom to play. They need you to trust them, and they need to be responsible and accountable for their own lives. This is how they learn how to adult."
"Humans think of the Earth as a living being, and put Her needs ahead of their own."
Snails Wreck & Put More Havoc On Our Pumpkin Leaf
"The pumpkin plant itself is planted inside a big garden shed surrounded with plantain tree to provide more moist for the soil and also to shed the pumpkin plant from hash weather conditions and also to create more high survival rate for the pumpkin in the dry season to come yet the snails also known as the Pest invaded the garden and crush the green leaves into pit stains on every side of the plant."
Class 4 Create & Handle School Orchard
"....children should not only learn to eat better, but they need to know how to eat better. The school is an important place to learn about food and nutrition, as it has close contact with families, who provide most of what children eat.
When it offers school meals, the school helps to establish eating habits. The school can provide clean water and emphasize the importance of its consumption; It can promote sanitation and hygiene and other interventions related to health and nutrition, such as deworming and vitamin A supplementation. Horticulture completes these actions by teaching children to produce food, harvest it, preserve it and make it."
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