Growing food

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The articles are listed in alphabetical order, so its topic followed by description.

Allotment: Mike Feingold’s Permaculture Allotment

Allotments: Subversive Plot: How to Grow a Revolution in Your Own Backyard – TEDxDirigo – Roger Doiron –

Apple trees: Raising your own apple tree root stocks (Film)

At Last, A New Story for the Future | On the Commons

Bees: Plants that provide nourishment for bees

Biodynamics? | Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association

Celery : growing celery indorrs

Chick peas, growing them

Chitting Potatoes (what I do different)

Coconut Oil and Alzheimer’s – New and Exciting Research

Cold climate vegetables

Comfrey: why we love it

Companion planting guide – The Gardeners Calendar

Compost: 5 Reasons Why Composting is the Greenest Thing You Can Do

Compost: How To Compost (And 55 Things You Can Compost!)

Compost: Humanure Compost Planting Trials – 2008

Controlling Slugs Organically

Dandelions – eating them

Dandelions: Friend or foe, how to use

Do slugs feel pain?,

Flat leaf parsley

Flowers: 42 Flowers You Can Eat

Food Independence – First Steps

Food: 7 Foods So Unsafe Even Farmers Won’t Eat Them

Food: 8 Most Nutrient Dense Foods on Earth

Food: Magnus A. L. Mulliner – Interviewed on the 30th November 2011

Food: One Year Old Mcdonald’s French Fries vs Week Old Organic Fries

Food: Pine Family (Pinaceae) As Wild Food | Frank Cook

Garden Planning: Plant a compact vegetable garden — Boys’ Life magazine

Gardening tips: The micro gardener – loads of tips

GM: List of gmo foods to avoid

GM: stop gm on your plate foods to avoid

Growing and Harevesting Borage – Herb Expert

Heirloom seeds: Growing Heirloom Seeds & Seed Saving : Cross-Pollination in Squash Types (film)

Heirloom seeds: one womens discovery

Heirloom seeds: Saving Heirloom Seeds film

Hemp: why its great

High yield: 7 Secrets for a High-Yield Vegetable Garden

Hops why they are good for you

Hops: How to grow your own Beer Hops

How To Kill Snails and Slugs

Incredible edibile

Insects: Beneficial Insects with Steve Hazzard

Jerusalem Artichokes

Korean Natural Farming – Lacto Bacillus

Leeks: Perennial Leeks

Manure tea: how to make

Mashua

Medical marijuana

Mixing crop species

Monthly Gardening Tips To Do List | Free Gardening Calendar

Musghrooms: Coffee grounds to mushrooms

Mushroom: All About Vitamin D | Mushroom Info

Natural foods: Whole Fraud: Exposing the Myth of So-Called Natural Foods

Nettle As Wild Food: (Film)

Nitrogen fixing trees

No dig method: Fukoaka’s No-TIll method the French way.

Oca: Growing Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) in the UK

Onions: Grow Onions from Discarded Onion Bottoms

Peppermint Uses: Digestive Remedy

Perennial Corn and Other Rare Food Crops at the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley

Perennial Vegetables

Pests: Animal Pests: Organic Gardening

Pests: Garlic: Learn About Wild Garlic

Pests: Green Tips For Treating Pests In Your Garden

Plants For A Future : 7000 Edible, Medicinal & Useful Plants

Plants for a future list

Pond: Top 6 Reasons to Get a Pond – Permaculture Artisans Network

Potatoe: My Potato Project; The Importance of “Organic”

Potatoes: growing factsheet

Potatoes: no dig method

Pumpkins: all about pumpkins

Red clover – good medicinal herb

Rhubard companion everything you need to know about rhubarb

Seed starting made simple

Seed varieties we have lost

Seeds: sprouting them in your kitchen

Self Seeding — you won’t believe how quickly it happens!

Shade: Gardening in the Shade

Slow Food International – Good, Clean and Fair food.

Soil: ecopolis super soil

Soil: Improve soil fertility in your food garden with a green manure crop

Spring onions (ramps) Temperate Climate Permaculture: Permaculture Plants: Ramps

Stevia – How to take Stevia cuttings

The Pine Family (Pinaceae) As Wild Food | Frank Cook

The Power of Hemp and its countless uses

Tomatoes: 1,000 Tomatoes from 5 plants

Tomatoes: Growing Outdoor Tomato Varieties – Fruits

Tomatoes: Guide to Growing Tomatoes

Urinating on plants makes them grow larger

Urinating on your tomato plants could give you fruit four times larger

Vegetables: Fast Growing Vegetables

Vegetables: Growing hardy vegetables

Weeds an organic strategy

Weeds: 12 of the Most Common Weeds

Weeds: The Seven Samurai of Weed Control

What to do now in your vegetable garden

Wild flowers: How to sow wild flowers into existing grass

Wild garlic: learn about it

Willow Coppicing Guide (film)

Winter Planting: How to Winter Sow Seeds Outdoors