Top Ten Reasons to Grow Food & Medicine 🍒 Convenience – It is EASY! Perennials (fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, etc.) take less maintenance than lawns. You do not have to become a “farmer” (in the traditional sense) to grow a lot of food. Think of a cherry or apple…
Jim Gale of Food Forest Abundance on The Highwire w/ Del Bigtree Jim Gale the Founder of Food Forest Abundance and partner Travis Holzem drove from Jim’s home in Orlando, Florida to Austin, TX to install a Food Forest on the property of ICAN & The Highwire Studio. We installed a Food Forest in Zone…
It seems that most Americans only care about image not substance; about keeping up with the status quo and their precious neighborhood & community cliques. Our addiction to lawns means that grass is the single largest irrigated agricultural “crop” in America, more than corn, wheat, and fruit orchards combined. In a 2005 NASA-sponsored study, it…
Aarin Brown of Food Forest Abundance of Columbus Ohio Talks About Lemon Balm (Melissa Officinalis) Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis), balm, common balm, or balm mint, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and native to south-central Europe, the Mediterranean Basin, Iran, and Central Asia, but now naturalized in the Americas and elsewhere. It grows to a maximum height of 28-59 in.…
