Soil Biology Workshop: Feb 8, 2014
February 8th 2014 Mother Mana teamed up with Molly and Jacob–of the The Living Soil Compost Lab– to host a hands-on workshop on Cultivating the Soil Foodweb. 20% of the proceeds were donated to the...
View ArticlePlacemaking 2015: Gulfport Community Garden
Mother Mana’s 2014 New Year’s Resolution was to help transform an empty, unused city lot in Gulfport, Florida into a beautiful, abundant space. –A space for growing food, kinship, culture, and greater...
View ArticlePond Installation / Edible Water Garden
Monday, April 27, 2015 Yesterday I (Riley) attended a Permablitz at the home of Permaculture Designer and teacher Koreen Breenan, where I learned (hands-on) how to install a small pond, which will...
View ArticleSCHOOLYARD PERMACULTURE
During the summer of 2015, I consulted with a non-profit organization in Central Florida that manages eight elementary schoolyard gardens. Their mission: “ to eliminate poverty as a factor in...
View ArticleTHE DAFFODIL: A FRUIT TREE COMPANION
Our second day at Blue Ridge Napping Institute was spent surrounding forest for wild daffodils, and then digging them up and transplanting them around the base of fruit trees in Tom’s small orchard....
View ArticleSOIL EROSION
Today at Blue Ridge Napping Institute, Camille, our friend Jess, and I (Riley) helped Tom open the flood gates on his pond in order to flush out two years worth of sediment. Before we opened the gates,...
View ArticleSPRING PLANTINGS: A NORTH CAROLINA VEGETABLE GARDEN
Camille and I (Riley) spent the first two weeks of March (2016) working at Blue Ridge Napping Institute in Moravian Falls, North Carolina. Our main task was to help (owner) Tom direct seed and...
View ArticleFOOD FOREST & COMPANION PLANTING IN BROOKSVILLE, FLORIDA
I spent the first week of April, 2016 volunteering at Circle T Farms in Brooksville, Florida–a newly forming 10 acre Permaculture Farm which (among other features) will include a large market garden,...
View Article1/4 ACRE FOOD FOREST: BEFORE
October 2016- I began transforming a typical urban lawn in Central Florida into an abundant, 1/4 acre Food Forest. See slide show below for “before Pics” Click here to view videos showing the...
View Article1/4 ACRE FOOD FOREST (Saint Pete, Fl)
The videos below document May – August 2018: 18 months into the conversion of a typical urban lawn into an abundant food forest. As of September 2018, the following trees and other perennials were...
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