Straw bale gardening is a unique and innovative gardening method that involves using straw bales as the primary growing medium for plants.
Seed Vegetables
Seeds hold the history of creation. Secret code capsules that transform into life. It is now more important than ever to be vigilante about what is happening to our seeds. If you complete the full cycle of a plant’s life into seed, so much abundance will follow. Choose and save old varieties that have not been tampered with by multi-nationals.
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Vandana Shiva
Food is a weapon, when you sell real weapons you control armies, when you control food you control society but when you control the seed you control life on earth.” Vandana Shiva
Local Foods Seed Bank for slow food
Local foods and seed banks are more important than ever. Community Gardens in cities, towns and villages are making a valiant attempt to set up Community Seed banks for locally adapted varieties of food plants.
Faith as a Grain of Mustard Seed
Mustard has a tiny seed and grows into a delicious Green to eat Mustard is a very under rated vegetable in these times of escalating food prices and food shortages. It is a hardy little plant and easy to grow as well as conditioning your soil while it is growing. The...
Egyptian Spinach Food of the Pharoahs
Once known as the food of the Pharaohs it has been cultivated for thousands of years and recognised for its medicinal and nutritional qualities.
How to Sow Seed for your Rasta Garden
Open pollinated seeds are seeds that you can grow again from seed. If you select from the best plant the genetic traits that make it a good plant will have a good chance of occurring in the next generation.
Rasta Seed Saving Shashemene Ethiopia
Anteneh was very short of money and was losing hope with regard to the seed situation in his country. He was travelling one thousand miles to the University to study and work making huge sacrifices with very little resources.
Growing Luffa sponge
The smooth Luffa is also known as the vegetable sponge or dishcloth gourd. A rapidly growing annual climber with a large fruit containing small black seeds.
Ethiopian Cabbage for your Rasta Garden
Ethiopian Cabbage is a beautiful large open leafed cabbage that grows to a height of about 1.5m and a width of about 1m with small yellow flowers.
Rastas Grow Okra from Ethiopia
Okra is a delicious vegetable that originated in Eritrea in Ethiopia and parts of the Sudan, Mali and Burkina Faso. It spread further north in Africa, and across to India very early.