Good Soil Yield This

When you get the soils healthy, they produce health and when you eat this health, you become healthy.  A good reason to grow your own food yourself!

Amazon has our book for sale. YEA!

A food gardening manual on How-to-Grow More Food with Less Work

Click on the amazon link below and enjoy

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0989286304/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_myi?m=A33WI9GBMMOTJV


Here is a review from our very good master gardener friend TJ. :

"Hey gardeners... you need this book!!! :) Our incredible friends Wayne Burleson and Connie J. Burleson have developed creative, thought-provoking ideas (with gorgeous photographic illustrations) of new methods to feed the world... from our own backyards or windowsills to the 3rd world countries they visit, trowels in hand. These two people are not consumer travelers, they are hard-working, God-loving, people-helping and garden-growing hands & hearts!

There are uncountable great ideas in this book. Wayne is going to be a speaker at the Mother Earth News Fair in Puyallup this year, talking about some of these theories. Get your book!! :)"

By TJ.
Wierenga

Danielle Zigmont to Connie J. Burleson

Connie! Thank you for the sweet note in my book. :-) I sat down to read it the day it got here and am just in awe of you and Wayne and this book you've created. I posted a few of my favorite beginner backyard farming resources (one of the things we plan on doing after the move) and I made sure to include your book! Thanks for giving people like me the confidence to make real changes in the health of their family and even beyond....love you and miss you, my friend!

Upcoming Event

We have the honor to give two presentations at this year's Mother Earth News Fair.  14,000 people cannot be wrong.  See you there.

Puyallup Fairgrounds
Puyallup, Wash. | June 1-2, 2013
110 9th Avenue Southwest
Puyallup, Wash. 98371
Saturday Fair hours: 9:00 AM-7:00 PM
Sunday Fair hours: 10:00 AM-6:00 PM

Read more: http://www.motherearthnews.com/fair/Puyallup.aspx#ixzz2Qs1VZM3k

Creating Soils that Work for You
Wayne Burleson - Gardening for Life
Learn how to grow your own fertilizers with a hands-on demo of 12-day ...
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Food Gardening for Life: No money required
Wayne Burleson - Gardening for Life
Learn how to stop your "yeah, buts" in growing your own food: It's too ...
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Off to Africa Again

Off to Mozambique, Africa this time learning, testing, and teaching about selling compost, connected to CNFA. Farmer to Farmer Project withTerra Nova, which means New Earth.

Today is also a big day for us, we are having our new book published "GARDENING FOR LIFE - No Money Required" It's an illustrated garden manual full of hundreds of how-to-do photos.  Book available mid May. 

You want to start growing your own food, but are any "Yeah Buts" holding you back?.

What are your "Yeah, buts"?

·         Poor soil

·         Too cold or too hot

·         Strong winds

·         Deer

·         Bugs (grasshoppers)

·         No time

·         Hard work

·         Takes too long

·         Inconvenience

·         No water

·         No $$ Too expensive

·         Weeds, weeds, weeds

·         Slugs, voles, birds, rabbits

·         Short growing season

·         No land

·         Bad childhood memories

·         Past failures

·         Stolen produce

Get a copy of this book to free yourself of your "Yeah Buts"
Stay tuned as the new book is on it's way.  YEAH! 

 

Life Giving Moringa Oleifera Tree

The Amazing Moringa Tree

These are 5-day old Moringa trees, seeded in small pots indoors, in February in Montana, USA.

Moringa Oleifera is one of the most nutrient-dense plants in the world, a true super food.

They are native to the foodhills of the Himalayas, now spread across the world in tropical and sub-tropical areas.  They grow well in hot dry areas, in poor soils.  A solution to many of the world's problems.

 Here is why I am growing Moringa trees indoors in the cold climate of Montana:

This is an amazing tree, chucked full of God's nutrients:

Some literature says that Moringa has:   

·         7 times the Vitamin C as there is in oranges

·         3 times the potassium as there is in bananas

·         3 times the iron as there is in spinach

·         4 times the Vitamin A as there is in carrots

·         4 times the calcium as there is in milk

·        2 times the protein as there is in yogurt

 It is a tree of many uses:  Used for 2,000 years

·         Human food (complete amino acids + 40% protein)

·         Loaded with vitamins and minerals

·         Animal fodder

·         Water purification  (Exodus 15:22-27)

·         Medicine 

·         Healing  

·         Living fence (shade and livestock boundary) 

·         Boosts immunity systems & prevents sickness

·         Natural pesticide  

·         Fertilizer

*          Phytochemicals, (anti - bacterial, virus, & fungus)

·         Fuel wood, cooking oil plus many other uses

 

One personal testimony, I was coming down with bronchitis one morning and started to drink a smoothie with Moringa leaf powder along with kale, spinach, blue berries plus other ingredients.

RESULTS: Almost immediately, my sore throat stopped hurting and within a few days, I felt fine.   I healed much faster than other people did in our family with the same bronchitis and did not develop the cough that comes with this troublesome virus infection.

 For more information, visit the Discovery Channel's Documentation at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqwk9KFLTI0

One Humongous Radish

This fellow in Ethiopia attended one of our Gardening for Life sessions.

And look what happen when he improved his soil?  If you want a great garden, you need great soils.  Growing in homemade compost.

We did some background checking and found out that people should be eating the leaves of a radish plant, as the leaves have 3 times the nutrients as the roots do.


My wife does not like radishes.  So I grew some big ones and this time made a whole salad out of one radish, leaves and all.  Put some good dressing on it and she love this salad.  NICE!

Another GO WILD! idea:

HOW TO KICK-START YOUR OLD GARDEN BEDS

Here is another GO WILD! Gardening idea that we call: "Blanket Mulch Composting"

 We consider this nifty new idea, a gardening breakthrough.  I have struggled to come up with ways to re-generate used compost.  AND finely we are going to test this new idea.  It should work great!

 You simply make about 2 inches of chopped up, mixed and/or shredded dry plant material and green plant material along with some nice rich soil, all mixed together, placed right on top of your garden beds just after harvest.  Kind of like putting your beds, to bed, properly for the winter.  This idea will help with the biological rule:  "DON'T LET YOUR SOILS SEE DAYLIGHT"

 This mixed up mulch feels and smells much like compost, it's just not broken down yet.  You can scratch it into your soils so the wind will not blow it away.  Also add a bit of water on this newly applied mulch and let it sheet compost.  This idea copies nature as it drops all its leaves in the fall. 

 Our garden beds should be in much better shape come next spring with this nice looking, added organic matter laying right on top of our used garden beds.  You see, we grow in almost 100% soil based compost with great results and we know that some of the nutrients have been used and converted into healthy food.  Also, this new idea should help to accomplish this biological rule; IF YOU DON'T FEED THE SOILS, THEY WON'T FEED YOU".

Click on the link below, and watch this noisy video.  Sorry about the buzzing of the shredder.

http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1&feature=vm-privacy&video_id=qPMQSK_ifAgnew