Preserving the Harvest (Gardening)

Amber Larson, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; OrganicGardening.com; UCLA.edu

The ideal home/meditation hut in the back of a big backyard garden (g2bgreen.com).

Permaculture gardening in a large metropolis works well with raised plots (UCLA.edu)

Is there a better way to "meditate" -- to cultivate serenity, calm, attention, and insight -- than gardening? Sometimes it only by sticking one's hands into the earth that we can become grounded. Finding the ground, our support, is the first step. Preparing the soil in a natural way (without deadly chemicals, toxins, pesticidal GMOs, etc.), in an organic and sustainable way, comes next.

(Rainbow Gardens) After planting, cultivating comes harvesting to eat well from the yard!

Preparing Farmory Arts garden (WQ)

Permaculture offers creative solutions to all difficulties industrial chemical corporations like Monsanto or BASF say to poison. The best thing about permaculture is that it offers a whole new way of thinking and seeing the "problem" as an advantage that needs no solution.

The sky devas offer free water. The temperature tells the seeds, bulbs, and fruit what to do. Having gardened and allowed the bounty to ripen on the vine, it comes time to harvest the abundance. But how to preserve it? OrganicGardening.com offers many options.

(Late Bloomers) Visiting the winder garden with Kaye Kittrell to wash off cute aphids with soapy water and see what vegetables are good to eat (chard, kale, bok choy).

• Int'l Permaculture Convergence 2015 (IPCUK)
• VIDEO: Learn to garden vegetables instead of lawns
  

Chem-free Plum Village (Quest4pce)

UCLA: Landscape Regeneration as a Key Strategy in the Future of Global Health Chris Shanks (Nov. 13) is a permaculture enthusiast and has worked with some of the finest permaculture and ecological designers in the Western hemisphere. Fascinated with living systems, Shanks studies whole systems design, ethno-botany, horticulture, mycology, and ecology. His interests have led him to study agro-ecosystems and cultural anthropology on both US coasts, Mexico, Hawaii, as well as the temperate and sub-tropical regions around the world.

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Bhumi deva (Buddhist fairy) relaxing in the home garden (WeGoTwo/flickr .com)