Naturally Earth Friendly

This guest post is by Jonathan White of Food4Wealth. High yielding, low maintenance vegetable gardening that’s perfect for our modern-day lifestyle When we think of organic gardening and permaculture we tend to conjure up images of bearded warriors dressed in overalls who dedicate their lives to working long days in their vegetable plots.  Whilst this [...]

This guest post is by Jonathan White of Food4Wealth. For many people, composting is just an alternative way of dealing with rubbish.  It prevents the garbage bin from getting full and smelly.  It’s also a way of disposing of grass clippings and leaves, which saves many trips to the garbage depot.  Whilst these things are valid, [...]

This guest post is by Jonathan White of Food4Wealth. Traditional vegetable gardens require an enormous amount of hard work and attention – weeding, feeding and strict planting schedules.  There is also the problem of seasonality, allowing beds to rest during the cooler months producing nothing at all.  Then we are told to plant green manure [...]

This guest post is by Jonathan White of Food4Wealth. The breakdown of our food growing systems poses one of the biggest threats to our survival.  Our existence depends upon our agricultural systems, but what do our agricultural systems depend on?  The answer: water, air and soil.  These basic elements support all life-forms and without them, life [...]

This guest post is by Jonathan White of Food4Wealth. We all know how much hard work there is in growing vegetables – digging, weeding, crop rotation, watering, fertilizing, planting winter crops, resting beds, spraying pests and weeds – the list goes on and on.  So imagine a vegetable garden that didn’t need any of these things.  [...]

This is a guest post by Jonathan White of Food4Wealth.  This is Part 3 and the conclusion of a series about the basic ecology of a garden and how it helps to restore our basic life-supporting systems. This includes water, air and soil. Read Part 1 and Part 2. There is no buffer that can protect [...]

This is a guest post by Jonathan White of Food4Wealth. This is Part 2 in a series about the basic ecology of a garden and how it helps to restore our basic life-supporting systems. This includes water, air and soil. Read Part 1 in the series here. Modern-day human intervention can offer short-term solutions, but cannot fix [...]

This is a guest post by Jonathan White of Food4Wealth.  This is Part 1 in a series about the basic ecology of a garden and how it helps to restore our basic life-supporting systems. This includes water, air and soil. The breakdown of our food growing systems poses one of the biggest threats to our survival. [...]

This is a guest post by Jonathan White of Food4Wealth.  The term Ecological Gardening seems to be gaining popularity. But what is it? What is ecological gardening? Natural ecosystems are generally diverse and there are a number of intricate interdependent relationships occurring between the living and non-living components at any given time. Put simply, each component [...]