Protecting Your Garden

COMMENTARY

• Leaf litter/dust makes fantastic mulch with nutrient benefits
• Having frost cloth on hand to cover frost tender plants
• Protecting planted seedlings from birds
  • Cages made of chicken wire to keep birds from pecking at seedlings
  • Wire baskets
  • Bed sheets over the garden

Kaos Gardening, Herbs And Flowers

COMMENTARY

• Jordan explains her ‘kaos gardening’ technique
  • Taking a handful of seeds and throwing them around the yard
  • Identifies where plants actually grow well as opposed to a specific place
  • She talks about the ‘carrot forest’ created thru kaos
• Medicinal herbs
  • Chamomile, California Poppy, Calendula, Plantain and more
• Edible herbs
  • Parsley, cilantro, oregano, thyme, rosemary and more
• Edible and medicinal nutrient dense weeds
  • Malva, wild lettuce, rocket, chickweed
• Edible flowers
  • Viola, nasturtiums, borage, hollyhock, sunflowers
• Wild foraging with a discussion on mesquite and mesquite milling

Bio Regional Herbalism

COMMENTARY

• Identifying plants that are local or invasive in your region can create a healthier environment
• Promotes a relationship with plants in your backyard that benefit your life
• Example of jewel weed that relieves the itch of poison ivy

RESOURCE

• John J. Slattery Bioregional Herbalist from Desert Tortoise Botanicals
• Peter Bigfoot/Reevis Mountain School Of Self-Reliance
• Urban Farm Permaculture Design Course Sign Up