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Ecology Action's Garden Companion Enewsletter

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Spring 2024: Vol. 33

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New in 2024!

Want to know how to improve your soil's health and fertility, but don't have access to a soil testing lab?
Try soil science expert John Beeby's FREE new web-based soil analysis tool
"Read Your Soil"


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Read Your Soil account

Click here to read John Beeby's Soil Science Spotlight Series


The GROW BIOINTENSIVE Farmer's Handbook is available for free in English, French, German, Hindi, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Korean, and
Nicaraguan Miskitu!

Click here to get the booklet!

Click here for more
self-teaching tools


¡La traducción al español de How to Grow More Vegetables ya está disponible como PDF descargable!

Haga clic aquí!


The Kiswahili translation of How to Grow More Vegetables is now available as downloadable PDF!

Click here to get the book!


Not sure which compost crop to plant?
Download our handy
compost crop chart!


Click here (377 KB PDF)


The Spanish Language Comunidad Biointensiva page is here!

Haga clic aquí!


How sustainable is your GROW BIOINTENSIVE garden?

Download our
sustainability checklist!


Master Farmer Craig Schaaf shares his methods for growing a bumper crops of heirloom tomatoes!

Click here to watch the film


The Russian translation of How to Grow More Vegetables is now available as downloadable PDF!

Click here to get the book!


Atradução em Português de Como Cultivar Mais Vegetais já está disponível em PDF para download!

Clique aqui para baixar o livro!


Your Biointensive Questions Answered!

Check out our
Frequently Asked Questions section, where you can find answers to Biointensive gardening questions!

Click here to read more!


John Jeavons @ Google

John Jeavons spoke at Google in Mountain View on April 12, 2012 about his four decades pioneering biointensive farming and what we can do for food security in the future.

Click here to watch the video!


Acres Interview with John Jeavons

Acres Magazine

Acres Magazine
presents an extensive interview with John Jeavons in the December 2011 issue. Click here to read it!


Video: Women Farmers Using Biointensive in Africa

Watch a presentation about how G-BIACK teaches women farmers in Kenya to use Biointensive farming to build food sovereignty in their communities. By Samuel Nderitu, Director of the Grow Biointensive Agriculture Center of Kenya (G-BIACK -- an Ecology Action partner organization) at the California Food and Justice Coalition's Food Sovereignty Awards Ceremony.

Click here to watch.


Our Biointensive
Learning Tools Online

We have created a Self-Teaching Classroom here on our website, where everyone can download a free copy our newest self -teaching guide: A Farmer's Mini -Handbook, and see useful images of Biointensive gardening methods. You can also find links to watch the new series of how-to GROW BIOINTENSIVE videos from John Jeavons and Cynthia Raiser Jeavons!

Click to start learning! _________________________

GROW BIOINTENSIVE learning centers are sowing the seeds of
food security in Kenya


In Kenya, hunger and poverty are endemic: a majority of Kenyans experience chronic hunger
, and farmers are often unable to afford inputs for their farms. Ecology Action and our African partner organizations (Manor House Agricultural Centre, Kilili Self-Help Project and GROW BIOINTENSIVE Agricultural Center of Kenya
(G-BIACK)) are working to provide solutions.

Click to explore the African Biointensive Movement


 

Ode Magazine

 

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(Ode is now Intelligent Optimist)

 

Biointensive Agriculture: A Greener Revolution

 


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Ecology Action: Biointensive Farming
Growing Ecosystems of Hope for over 50 Years!



Ecology Action teaches people worldwide to better feed themselves
while building and preserving the soil and conserving resources.

Aware of intensifying world challenges and the basic need of people to feed themselves, we have been working for 50 years to develop an elegant, small-scale agricultural system — GROW BIOINTENSIVE® Sustainable Mini-Farming — that when practiced correctly, nurtures healthy soil fertility, produces high yields, conserves resources and can be used successfully by almost everyone. Our goal is to help this system be known and used locally...on a worldwide basis.

To learn more about the GROW BIOINTENSIVE method, and how it works, click here.

Download the GB Brochure, which includes the 8 Essential Elements of GB:

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52 Years.
152 Countries.
Millions of people educated.
Millions of garden beds created.
Billions of pounds of fertile soil grown.

...and we're just getting started.

Grow Hope. Grow Abundance.
GROW BIOINTENSIVE! 

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Ecology Action Self-Teaching Mini-Series Booklet 38 is here!

A Path to Peace and Sustainability: Growing Soil, Food and Seed
In As Little As 1,000 Sq. Ft.
by Matt Drewno, 2021, 76pp.

Read an excerpt here.

Available for purchase in print or electronic formats

Booklet 38 Cover


Biointensive gardens can help reduce global warming!

Compost is Carbon Sequestration!
GROW BIOINTENSIVE compost increases the amount of carbon stored in the soil, reduces the amount of water needed to grow crops, and increases the yields for both food and compost crops.
Every garden planted makes a positive difference.

Get our booklet Climate Change and GROW BIOINTENSIVE for FREE!:
click here to download the English version

haga clic aquí para descargar la versión en español
cliquez ici pour télécharger la version française
(~600KB file)


Click here to start learning the method with our self-teaching tools!


We are all part of the solution.
Sponsor an International Intern for the 2024 Season.

People from countries with serious food shortages and ongoing hunger in their populations want to come to Ecology Action in 2022 to learn GROW BIOINTENSIVE, so they can teach their communities to grow abundant food and fertile soil.

They need help to get here.
YOU are an important part of this positive action: your donation makes it possible.

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1st African GROW BIOINTENSIVE Symposium

1st AFRICAN GROW BIOINTENSIVE SYMPOSIUM [2015] from Ecology Action on Vimeo.

In 2015, 25 people from Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Rwanda and Swaziland came together at G-BIACK (GROW BIOINTENSIVE Agriculture Center of Central Kenya) to share their knowledge and experiences with biologically intensive farming. This is a video that captures the kinetic energy that came together to disseminate and expand GROW BIOINTENSIVE across Africa.


Try Our Online Learning Series!

In 2014, Ecology Action held a special 2-week Farmers Course in Willits, CA. During this amazing event, twelve different sustainability experts with over 250 years of combined experience lectured on a variety of topics essential for sustainable farming. Dozens of these presentations were captured on film so we could share this unique educational experience in farming and sustainability. These films are now online, and are offered as part of Ecology Action's educational mission.

Now, more people than ever before will be able to learn directly from our master farmers from the US, Latin America and Africa, and will come away from the experience equipped to begin growing sustainable and organic food and soil to build a better future for the whole world.

To browse free episodes, click the link below and then scroll down to the "Extra Features" section of the Vimeo page. You can watch other episodes for only $1.99, or purchase the whole series for $11.99 - all proceeds help fund Ecology Action's educational programs!

Click here to start watching!



Watch the hope-filled story of GROW BIOINTENSIVE of Kenya (G-BIACK),
a project supported by Ecology Action and its members:

Our members make stories like this possible.
Please donate and become part of the ecosystem of hope.

 


Watch the self-teaching video series
GROW BIOINTENSIVE: A Beginner's Guide
from John Jeavons and Cynthia Raiser Jeavons



Session 1: Introduction

To view the latest episodes online, or to buy the full-length series on DVD
or as a gift pack with How to Grow More Vegetables, click here


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