Miraculous Abundance: How to Grow a Vegetable Garden for More Food than you ever Imagined! – Hands-On Experience
With the Forest Gardener & Wild Nutritionist Shantree Kacera
Take a moment to consider that 50% of Americans were farming in 1880. Now less than 2% of the nation is employed in agriculture.
From another perspective, in 1945, Americans grew 45% of their food in their backyard gardens. Now we grow 0.1% of our food in our backyards.
April 25 – June 6, 2024
Growing more food than you ever thought possible on less land than you ever imagined is easily achieved and demonstrated through small-scale, high-yielding, all-organic regenerative gardening methods. This is a hands-on experience!
This 7-part series will cover and offer practical protocols from Shantree’s 50-years of research and accomplishments in regenerative gardening.
- The Practical Concept of Small is Beautiful
- Growing nutrition per square meter
- Biointensive Micro-agriculture
- Creating a Four-Season Harvest
- We Are Where We Eat
- The Incredible Edibles
- Bio-Abundance for All
- A Step-by-Step Process
- Create Your Miraculous Abundance Landscape
- Discover Who Feeds the World
- Q & A
We will look at what it is NOT:
- Not a Violent Knowledge Paradigm
- Not Chemical Fertilizers
- Not Poisons & Pesticides
- Not Toxic Monocultures
- Not Large-Scale Industrial Farms
- Not Seed Dictatorship
- Not Globalization
- Not Corporations
The Living Centre began as a homestead in 1983, organically transitioning into the educational centre it is today. We share how to sustain ourselves and grow the most nutrient-dense food and medicines possible. We have created a regenerative model that will carry us into a post-carbon future without the need for chemical fertilizers to maintain soil fertility.
Today, the centre produces a vast diversity of vegetables, berries, fruit, nuts and herbs using a mix of permaculture, bio-intensive forest gardening and natural ecological practices. It is a well-established permaculture educational centre and an apothecary clinic
Methodology for Growing a Vegetable Garden
- Modelling a living system
- Using organic veganic methods
- Using only hand-tools
- On-site fertility mulch, compost and making our weed tea
- Forest gardening practices
- Using a no-till approach
- Growing in All Seasons
- Perennial Plants, Wild Plants
- High-Density Polyculture Planting
- A Change of Scale – Small is Beautiful
* Includes an Incredible Edibles e-Manual
We must collectively invent a new way to live on this planet and profoundly change our relationship with nature. We look forward to having you join us during this hands-on series.
Here is an inspiring article:
Miraculous Abundance: A Veganic Ecological Permaculture Perspective
Focus Topics: Seed, Steward & Save
Date & Time
Thursday Evenings (7-Week series) includes:
April 18 – From Dream to Reality: Seeding the Vision
April 25 – Pattern & Observation: The Web of Connections
May 2- Deep Soil Creation & Maintenance
May 9 – Soil, Building the Future – Composting & Soil Fertility
May 16 – Biointensive Micro-agriculture: Working-by-Hand
May 23 – Regenerative Polyculture & Companion Planting
Open Pollinating Seeds – Seed Propagation, Close Spacing & Seed Saving
May 30 – Permaculture Gardens Site Tour:
An Interrelated Food-Growing System: Finding the balance between garden and insect life
6:30- – 9:00 pm
Registration Fee:
Sliding Scale: $200 – $250 – $300
Limited to 10 Garden Enthusiasts
Highly Recommended Study Workbook:
How to Grow More Vegetables:
Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land with Less Water Than You Can Imagine, John Jeavons
Thank you for your generosity and participation in this hands-series.
