Three staff members from The Gardens Project attended a three day workshop on the Grow BIOINTENSIVE mini-farming method this weekend, put on by the organization Ecology Action, based in Willits. For the last 35 years, Ecology Action has sough to answer the question, 'what is the least amount of space one person needs to grow all their own food?' and have attempted this question using the biointensive method, which focuses on soil fertility, plant spacing, and a bed-preparation technique called 'double-digging.' This method could be practiced by any backyard gardener, but is especially relevant to developing countries and the world of the future in which there will be far greater land- and water-shortages than there are now.
The three of us joined a group of thirty other workshop participants from all over the country and world and were inspired by their energy and all the great things they are doing in the world of food-system change and activism. We learned so much, about gardening, about sustainability, and about the tremendous changes that are going to need to be made to meet the demands of the world of the future. Now we are going to figure out how to share the information we learned with the community gardens in Mendocino! We'll let you know.
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