My cousin Todd, owner of Combs Landscape Design, came over to talk about our garden last week. He encouraged me to think of the backyard as a room with ‘walls’ of fence and house to be decorated with wooden panels painted by Lil. He advised us to expand the number of garden beds and arrange them in a funky mixed up way to complement the kid friendly decor coming soon. Thanks to intern Keara and [...]

“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”  Masanobu Fukuoka So began the talk ‘Home-Scale Ecological Food Production’ by David Jacke on Friday July 30, 2010.  Organized by the Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association, the Clintonville presentation was attended by approximately 70 people. Jacke, an expert in edible forest gardens and author of a set of books of the same name, continued by [...]