In this video, I explain some HUGE advantages that you have as a backyard gardener over those big commercial farms. Take a look; as they say, it’s not the size that matters….
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(This is an updated version of an article that was originally published on February 4, 2013.)
Marjory Wildcraft is the founder of The Grow Network, which is a community of people focused on modern self-sufficient living. She has been featured by National Geographic as an expert in off-grid living, she hosted the Mother Earth News Online Homesteading Summit, and she is listed in Who’s Who in America for having inspired hundreds of thousands of backyard gardens. Marjory was the focus of an article that won Reuter’s Food Sustainability Media Award, and she recently authored The Grow System: The Essential Guide to Modern Self-Sufficient Living—From Growing Food to Making Medicine.
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I like the idea of living shadecloth! 🙂 How did you choose the kind of trees you used?
Hi Midori,
You know, I don’t remember how I stumbled across it. But it sure is a great tree. Actually I have done an extensive webinar focusing solely on how to grow leucaena. Check it out here.
I also would like to know the name of the trees you are talking about so I can purchase them.
Marjory,
Greetings from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Thank you for continuing to encourage those of us still at the trail head of the homesteading/self-sufficiency journey. Even if we do live in suburbia, there are steps we can take to begin learning how to provide for ourselves. I appreciate the vital information you provide to your subscribers. Have a great day!
Thanks Marjory for your sharing. Wish you lived closer so I could visit. But here in Reno, Nevada I have room to begin growing my own food. Even at 74 years young. Being a health nut for over 40 years I am very young in body from living with many of the ideas you are sharing. Love it. Please keep up the good work – Steve
Hi Marjory,
Great video and I agree with you. I am creating a permaculture landscape, front and back. I grow everything organically, making my own compost, raising chickens and composting worms also worm trenching.
Are those nitrogen fixing trees growing in a row in your video, if so what are they called, and where did you purchase them?
Thanks,
Robert
My garden in Oregon is already giving me sugar snap peas, lettuce and green onions. All is up and thriving. Potatoes are a foot tall and rhubarb is over a foot and could be harvested for a pie by end of month. You are a great inspiration.
Hiya Marjory many thanks for all your great info! I would love to see the webinar on leucaena, but there wasn’t a link included in your message.
thanks again, Lucy
Oh Lucy, Yes that webinar is in the members area. Are you a member?
Hi Marjory thanks for replying. No, not a member, no spare cash at present. So doubly grateful for all the free information you share with us 🙂 Lucyxxx