Put away your easel and palette. . . this is a technique for preserving the health of your fruit trees with a multifunctional biodynamic “paint”. Last Thursday I spent an hour or so assisting a small crew at Camphill Soltane in applying this paint to trees in their apple orchard. Mason Vollmer, Camphill Soltane’s Agricultural [...]
Archive for January, 2009
PAINTING FRUIT TREES
Posted in Food Growing Techniques, Philadelphia Food Growing, tagged biodynamic, fruit, orchard, paint, philadelphia on January 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
CAMPHILL IN PENNSYLVANIA
Posted in Philadelphia Food Growing, tagged agriculture, camphill, disabilities, philadelphia on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The international Camphill movement is dedicated to community living that includes and supports people of special needs. The movement is inspired Anthroposophy and the teachings of Rudolph Steiner (who also conceived biodynamic agriculture and Waldorf schools) and the first such community was started in Scotland in 1939 by Dr. Karl Koenig. There are now more [...]
GROWING KIWIBERRIES
Posted in Food Growing Techniques, Philadelphia Food Growing on January 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Kiwiberries are the fruit of the hardy kiwi vine (Actinidia aruguta) and super hardy kiwi vine (Actinidia kolomikta), smaller cousins of the familiar fuzzy kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa). Kiwiberries are generally the size of large grapes and can be popped in the mouth whole. I can only describe them as a tropical explosion- both sweeter and [...]
LANCASTER’S BACKYARD FRUIT GROWERS
Posted in Philadelphia Food Growing, tagged agriculture, food, locavore, philadelphia on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Long before the recent resurgence of farmers markets, the popularity of Michael Pollan, and the coining of the term “locavore”, passionate folks were meeting in the Lancaster, PA area to discuss backyard fruit growing. In 1990, Eric Habegger and a friend decided they would start meeting to share knowledge and experiences about growing fruit in [...]
