The Black Walnut with Dina Falconi
Where I live, black walnuts are everywhere and now is the time they’re dropping their fruit – with a heavy thud!
What are they fruits and nuts good for?
A lot!
Another view of this very useful plant
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Dorothy Maclean was one of the three founders of the Findhorn community in Scotland.
This talk was delivered at the 3rd World Wilderness Conference in 1983
Maclean referenced Richard St. Barbe Baker.
He was personally responsible for planting over one billions trees and was one of the first genuine global conservationists to come out of western … Read more
Not everyone is lucky enough to live in a warm climate (I’m not!) but if you are…
What a wonderful canvas you have to work with as a gardener and small farmer!
A visit to ECHO Global Farm in Fort Myers, Florida.
Billions of people can benefit from their research.
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The Threefold nature of plants and reading the Book of Nature
A fascinating conversation with Dr. Thomas Cowan.
We found this video here:
https://www.gardensall.com/specialty-crops/
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Click here to watch how to forage and prepare burdock root chai
After you watch Diana’s lesson, you might be interested in the Plant Wisdom interview with her. You can click here to listen to the interview.
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This informative survey on the history and benefits of the dandelion comes from YouTube’s “The History Guy.”
It answers a big mystery:
“How did we come to spend millions of dollars every year to spray toxins in our environment to kill one of the most useful and health-giving plants on Earth?”
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Korean TV documentary on medicinal uses
The film refers to May as optimal harvest time, but, of course, that differences from place to place.
How wonderful it must be to live in a country that has “modern” medicine and deep herbal knowledge too.
The second half of the video is a bonus: Korean Qi Gong.
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In the 1980s, NASA spent millions of dollars on how to deal with unhealthy indoor environments.
They were interested in the big challenge of purifying air on space stations and long space flights.
Here’s what they came up with…
Houseplants.
The simplest plant to take care of:
Sansevieria laurentii, also known as “mother-in-law’s tongue” and “snake plant.”
The original NASA paper is here:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930073077.pdf
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