Miraculous Abundance: How to Grow More Nourishment than You ever Imagined! (4-Week Online Live Series)

With the Forest Gardener & Wild Nutritionist Shantree Kacera

Take a moment to consider that 50% of Americans were farming in 1880. Now, less than 2% of the nation is employed in agriculture.
From another perspective, in 1945, Americans grew 45% of their food in their backyard gardens. Now, we grow 0.1% of our food in our backyards.

May 8 – 29, 2024

Growing more food than you ever thought possible on less land than you ever imagined is easily achieved and demonstrated through small-scale, high-yielding, all-organic regenerative gardening methods. This is a hands-on experience!

This 4-part series will cover and offer practical protocols from Shantree’s 50-years research and accomplishments in regenerative gardening.

We will look at what it is NOT:

Not a Violent Knowledge Paradigm
Not Chemical Fertilizers
Not Poisons & Pesticides
Not Toxic Monocultures
Not Large-Scale Industrial Farms
Not Seed Dictatorship
Not Globalization
Not Corporations

The Living Centre started as a homestead in 1983 and has since transformed into an educational center that teaches sustainable living and organic gardening practices. We aim to promote the growth of highly-nutritious produce and medicinal plants while sharing knowledge on maintaining soil fertility without relying on chemical fertilizers. Our regenerative approach to farming is designed to prepare us for a future free from carbon emissions constraints.

Today, the centre produces a vast diversity of vegetables, berries, fruit, nuts and herbs using a mix of permaculture, bio-intensive forest gardening and natural ecological practices. It is a well-established permaculture educational centre and an apothecary clinic.

Methodology for Growing a Vegetable Garden

Modelling a living system
Using organic veganic methods
Using only hand-tools
On-site fertility mulch, compost and making our weed tea
Forest gardening practices
Using a no-till approach
Growing in All Seasons
Perennial Plants, Wild Plants
High-Density Polyculture Planting
A Change of Scale – Small is Beautiful

Curriculum

Week 1

A Forest Gardener’s Tool Kit
The Practical Concept of Small is Beautiful
Growing nutrition per square meter
Biointensive Micro-agriculture

Week 2

Discover Who Feeds the World
Creating a Four-Season Harvest
We Are Where We Eat
The Incredible Edibles

Week 3

Bio-Abundance for All
A Step-by-Step Process
The Seven-Story Garden: Vegetation Layer
The Polycultural Elements of Forest Gardening

Week 4

Create Your Miraculous Abundance Landscape
Discover Who Feeds the World
Management, Maintenance, and Co-evolution
Q & A

Includes
*** The Organic Gardener Manual
*** Grow Biointensive Handbook
*** How To Grow More Vegetables ~John Jeavons
*** An Incredible Edibles e-Manual ~Shantree
*** Natural Forest Foraging Guide
*** Articles, Charts, PowerPoint _Shantree
*** Case Studies

Highly Recommended Reading:
How to Grow More Vegetables:
Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land with Less Water Than You Can Imagine, John Jeavons

We must collectively invent a new way to live on this planet and profoundly change our relationship with nature. We look forward to having you join us during this hands-on series.

Here is an inspiring article:

Miraculous Abundance: A Veganic Ecological Perma culture Perspective

May 8 – From Dream to Reality: Seeding the Vision
Pattern & Observation: The Web of Connections
May 15 – Deep Soil Creation & Maintenance
Soil, Building & Fertility of the Future
May 22 – Biointensive Micro-agriculture: Working-by-Hand
Regenerative Polyculture & Companion Planting
Open Pollinating Seeds – Seed Propagation, Close Spacing & Seed Saving
May 29 – Permaculture Case Study – Gardens Site Tour: An Interrelated Food-Growing System
Finding the balance between garden and insect life

Focus Topics: Seed, Steward & Save