Podcasts about eric toensmeier

Stephen grows a dazzling range of plants, some you probably haven’t even heard of, let alone eaten and more still that you may have heard of but may not have considered to be edible.  Stephen’s book Around the World in 80 Plants looks at perennial, leafy plants from around the globe that play a big part in the diet of those living where these plants naturally occur in abundance. He’s grown and studied these in his garden in Norway and selected varieties for taste, growth performance and for nutritional, ornamental and entomological value. that please the eye, work from a maintenance perspective and can evolve successfully over time. We talk about what he grows in his garden, his passion for onions, his book and some of the varieties mentioned therein.  About Stephen Barstow: “Stephen Barstow has devoted 30 years to trialling the world’s perennial vegetables. It is unlikely that anyone anywhere has tried as many different species of edible plants – just witness his salad comprising 538 varieties in 2003 – earning him the title of ‘Extreme Salad Man’! Stephen grew interested in green issues whilst studying in Norwich. He began eating whole-foods baking bread and learning the names of birds and plants. He became vegetarian when studying in Edinburgh and began a vegetable patch at his landlords flat. He was even sold with the building to the new owner as a lodger/gardener. In 1981 Stephen moved to Norway for work and found vegetarianism was only a small underground movement and that supermarkets stocked little vegetables. To survive they grew their own, and now Stephen has a garden that takes over two days to tour and 2,000 or so edibles, each with their own ethnobotanical story to tell.” - Permanent Publications What we talk about: Stephen’s book and how he came to write it,  plans to release further editions that go beyond leafy veg?  Advice for interested in growing edimentals, where to source seeds or plants, in the UK and internationally? If you’re ‘blessed’ with Japanese knotweed, what can you with it? How to carry out blanching to improve flavour How onions propagate themselves? Stephen’s favourite ornamental edible onion? If it’s possible to be self-sufficient in ornamental veg all year round? How much space would you need?  How vital is it that we use our gardens to at least supplement our diets?  Other good resources for those interested in Edimentals Links: Stephen’s Blog - Edimentals!  Around the World in 80 Plants: An Edible Perennial Vegetable Adventure For Temperate Climates by Stephen Barstow - Permanent Publications, 2014  Stephen Barstow on Twitter https://twitter.com/s_barstow Edimentals Group on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/273637002647408/ Edulis Nursery www.edulis.co.uk  Incredible Vegetables www.incrediblevegetables.co.uk Cool Temperate Nursery www.cooltemperate.co.uk   Edgewood Nursery edgewood-nursery.com  Eric Toensmeier www.perennialsolutions.org   Plants for a Future - Online Database  Cornucopia II: A Source Book of Edible Plants by Stephen Facciola  With thanks to Jackie Currie, National Collection Holder of Alliums and Jake Rayson - www.forestgarden.wales  Get in touch; Email podcast@rootsandall.co.uk  Website www.rootsandall.co.uk  Twitter @rootsandall Instagram rootsandallpod Patreon Link; Help me keep the podcast free & independent! Donate as much or as little as you like at https://www.patreon.com/rootsandall       

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with citizen scientist and master gardener Adrian Fisher about reconciliation ecology and how her neighborhood outside Chicago, IL used wild plant gardening to not only connect two wildlife preserves on either side of her, but also a bi-continental migration route for innumerable wild species. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Adrian Fisher is a sustainability coordinator, a wild and native plants gardener, and writes and speaks about Reconciliation Ecology and Regenerative Gardening. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois, and is a featured writer on Resilience.org Related Links: Why Reconciliation Ecology Matters by Adrian Fisher http://www.resilience.org/stories/2016-04-28/ethics-and-ecosystem-interactions-why-reconciliation-ecology-matters Reconciliation Ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_ecology Wild Ones Organization http://www.wildones.org/ Deep Ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology Resilience.org http://www.resilience.org/ Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken http://www.blessedunrest.com/ Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer https://www.amazon.com/Braiding-Sweetgrass-Indigenous-Scientific-Knowledge/dp/1571313567 Win-Win Ecology https://global.oup.com/academic/product/win-win-ecology-9780195156041 Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation http://www.xerces.org/ The Sunflower Forest by William Jordan https://www.amazon.com/Sunflower-Forest-Ecological-Restoration-Communion/dp/0520233204 The Carbon Farming Solution by Eric Toensmeier http://www.chelseagreen.com/the-carbon-farming-solution Paradise Lot (Book and Blog) https://paradiselotblog.wordpress.com/ Rodale Institute http://rodaleinstitute.org/ Rodale Institue White Paper on Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change http://rodaleinstitute.org/assets/WhitePaper.pdf Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org This week's featured musician is Melissa Crabtree. This is her song, "Bees" from her album "The Day I Fell Into the Water". You can find this and other music by Melissa at www.melissacrabtree.com About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

Eric Toensmeier is an author and expert on the link between agriculture and climate change who has recently completed a book, The Carbon Farming Solution, drawing on his deep knowledge of sustainable agriculture, including agroforestry and permaculture. More about the book here: http://carbonfarmingsolution.com/ . Also, check out Tim Flannery's work here: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/14/tim-flannery-here-on-earth