| Links: www.fourseasonfarm.com/ Elliot Coleman's website. I give my deepest respect and most of my soil block acknowledgement to Elliot. Thank you, Elliot, for bringing European Style farming to America. www.allsun.co.au The Organic Farm Supply Company of Australia committed to Deep Ecology and Innovative Gardening Products that work, for generations. Many of Elliot Coleman's recommended tools can be found here. Great Folks in the Organic know-how business. www.blackberrylane.co.uk Dave and Val Taylor from the UK have everything you need, if you're reading from the UK. Great folks! NOW AVAILABLE! Elliot Coleman designed Dagger Trowel sold only in England! www.acresusa.com/ The most comprehensive magazine periodical on ecological farming on the face of the planet. Started by the wisest man in natural farming, Charles Walters. Get a free sample magazine. Must read! www.rodaleinstitute.org/home The leaders in organic agriculture. Stay connected to all the good things happening in the world. I really like the New Farm section, as it is essential for us market gardeners. www.soilfoodweb.com/ Are you getting a soil sample? Here's where we get ours, and it's a whole new learning curve. This lab measures the life in your soil. It's all about getting the biology back into the soil, not necessarily added a missing element, but adding the biology that will sustain the missing element. Tests composts and compost teas, leaves and crops, too. See our primer on the Soil Food Web. www.greenhousepoly.ca/ Do you want a greenhouse plastic that lasts 6 years instead of 4? Do you want a greenhouse plastic with the highest percentage of light transmittance in the industry(92%)? Do you want to "see" out your plastic greenhouse? Click here if you answered yes to any of these questions and spend a few extra dollars on the best greenhouse plastic ever! www.growbiointensive.org/ Interested in growing food in the smallest spot possible and be sustainable? Neat people doing great deeds. This is where I learned how to compost. www.wormwomen.com The author of Worms Eat My Garbage, Mary Appelhof has created a very rich website to support worm enthusiasts. Very helpful with a free e-zine: http://www.wormwoman.com/acatalog/wormezine.html www.remineralize.org A great primer on rock dusts. www.johnnyseeds.com The east coast king of seeds, supplies, and Elliot Coleman designed tools. www.groworganic.com The west coast king of seeds, supplies, tools,fertilizers and amendments. www.farmtek.com Many of our farm tools that we talk about came from here. Some are of the highest quality, some, not so high. But all in all, great prices, great people, great service. Also, I get my commercial greenhouse equipment from Farmtek. http://www.ladbrooke.co.uk/frame.htm This is the company that starting making soil blockers for Elliot Coleman and Johnny's Seeds. They are British Engineers specializing in custom metal fabrication. Making soil blockers are a small fraction of their business. www.growingedge.com As the name implies, it is the growing edge of agriculture, loaded, jam packed and stuffed with unique content on agriculture, hydroponics, organiculture, and socio-political news on our world food supply. Also, detailed information on how to grow and do lots of projects. Find a niche market and get growing! and raise some serious cash. A total brain stimulator! Author's Interest in Life Links These may or may not be contextual to soil blocking, but what they are is an area of my life normally left obscure by solitude and deep silence. These links represent a wide variety of people, places, things, and ideas that I will share with you because my readers are very important to me. Thanks for reading, and thanks for viewing the unknown mind of a creator. www.honeytreeapiaries.com This is the author's newest part-time career. Bee ranching and honey making! Best honey available, I personally guarantee that, or I'll buy you a pint! www.WWW.SPANAFEISH.COM This is the author's brother, who is definitely a creator and destroyer (think Brahma and Shiva) of the highest order. The art and photography is a direct reflection of spending 20 years in New Mexico, which to us, was considered like "waking up in a foreign country every day". www.earth-service.com My spiritual "brother", David Wodtke, is a budding new author in the Spiritual Communication of the Animal Kingdom as directly perceived by him through the Divine Mother Earth. If you love nature and wild animals, I highly recommend his subscription to "Earth-Service", which is a helpful, beautiful and soul stirring guidepost for the balance of daily living and messages from the wild. I wait for the messages from the animals for signs in my life for resolving issues(which we all have, don't we?). www.merchantguru.com Real e-commerce help recommended here. Joe Fletcher is the author's long-time farm boy friend where they grew up in the vast Wisconsin farmland together. While he had to farm to help his family, I did not. I am now a farmer, and he is the co-founder of Merchant Guru, destined for great service on our planet helping small to medium sized businesses succeed in accurate diving of the deep waters of online e-commerce. If you have a small business, you might want to look them up. Online business is not only working for us now, it will for a long, long time for all businesses. The time is NOW. Joe "Fletch" is one of the brightest, nicest guys you'll ever meet, very authentic. Tell him the Potting Block Guru sent you! |
