Did you know that growing your vegetables with wood chips and rock dust can more than double their size?  This is a great little video that shows us how it works.  Many thanks to Growing Your Greens for sharing this with all of us! 

When most of us think of forest, we think of rainforests.  However, dryland forests are just as important as our rainforests are.  Take a look at this great video from Permasolutions to learn more about how our forests keep our drylands working. 

A water-retaining landscape is a critical part of helping to correct the global problems of water shortages and imbalances.  In seeing how one town addressed its problems of hydrological imbalance, we can see how important it is to create a landscape that will retain the water it's given through rain, snow, and natural waterways.  With Sepp Holzer and Bernd Mueller, this video is a beautiful little gem of very pertinent information! 

What could be better than Forest Gardens and greenhouses?  A Forest Garden in a greenhouse!  We've found just the right greenhouse to use to make it happen, too!  In fact, we think we may have found the best of the best in greenhouse designs.  We'd like to introduce you to Growing Dome® Greenhouses.  

You can find them on our "Featured Favorites" page as a permanent part of the Sacred Earth Gardens area of our website.  

Growing 6,000 pounds of food per year on 1/10th an acre of land sound too good to be true, right?  How about 400 species of plants, hundreds of eggs from chickens and ducks, and honey, too?  Sounds incredible, and it is! Check out this great video on urban farming!  It's a wonderful inspiration! 

Sacred Earth Gardens has teamed up with Sacred Earth Organics and the Green Living Resource Center in a new Facebook page!  We see so many great ideas on Facebook, that we felt it was waste to not share them with all of you.  So, we created a page just for sharing "green ideas"!  The new page is called "Grow Green, Eat Green, Live Green with The New Gaea Foundation.  You can connect with it here, as well as on the sitemap, under the "Blog Log", and under the sitemap area here on this page.  We hope you enjoy it!  See you there!

A Free documentary series in the making, here is the trailer for "Seeds of Permaculture".  This documentary is still in the fundraising stage.  Donate if you can.  Watch and share the film  when it is ready.  Permaculture is a way of gardening for today that Supports future generations of gardens and gardeners! It just makes sense! 

You can use cinnamon or chili powder or oil to keep the crawling pests at bay - although care must be used when using cinnamon indoors, as it can stain.  Peppermint (live or oil) is also good for deterring crawling creatures as well as mice.  

If you've got the crawly or flying pesky kind of creatures that you would rather not have, we highly recommend Orange Guard.  We have used it safely and effectively for several years now, and have found nothing better.  Orange Guard is a water-based, food grade insecticide (orange oil) that's safe for people, pets, foods, household, garden, and other uses.  You can find out more about Orange Guard in the video below or go to the Orange Guard website.  

There are lots of ways to avoid encounters with insects and arachnids that are natural and pose no health hazard to people, pets, or the environment.  So, if your Peace efforts with the multi-legged world fail, you can still stay natural, healthy, and environmentally friendly.

Dr. Vandana Shiva....an interview on traditional knowledge, biodiversity, and sustainable living....

Please read more about this interview at the above link.

The music/singing of plants through the use of electrodes is a magical experience brought about by the use of gentleness, Love, and a little science.  Research in plant communications has been underway since 1976 at Damanhur - an eco-society based on spirituality and ethics.  To give a voice to the plants in this way is a wonderful example of the right place of a human being within the scope of true Oneness.  

You can find out more about Damanhur here.  You can read more about the "Amazing Phenomenon of Singing Plants" here.