Joey gives tips on planting corn for best success, no dig potatoes planting and making a trellis for peas.

“Conventional” agriculture requires ever-increasing inputs and energy into the system to maintain production, while natural systems reduce the disturbances in the system, while increasing production. Historically, soil science ignored or dismissed soil life as important, in a large part because the methods used to study organisms in soil were mis-leading, inaccurate and missed about 99% […]

How to plant a back to Eden garden:

In this episode, John builds a raised bed garden on a budget and with no tools (except a scissors) and shares with you in detail how you can start growing your own food today without any prior experience. John will share with you many tips in this epsiode which will be especially helpful for beginners […]

In this episode, John will introduce you (and himself) to JRN Nursery that has been selling plants in Houston for 30 years. In this episode, John will share with you this special nursery that has a handful of his favorite tropical, perennial vegetables that can grow year round in Houston, TX and are no-brainers for […]

Today Urban Farmer Curtis Stone takes you on a tour around his passive solar greenhouse.

See how profitable urban farming works as farmer Curtis Stone shows you how he assembled a multi-locational urban farm that grossed $20,000 in its first year and $55,000 in it’s second. He’ll describe the design of his farm, equipment used, planting plan and target markets. Though records are not yet kept on how quickly farms […]

In this episode, you will learn why you should transplant your seedlings, and when to transplant your seedlings. John will also share his techniques for transplanting seedlings. Finally, John will share how he is growing his newly transplanted seedlings in 4″ pots to conserve water. After watching this episode, you will better understand how and […]

How do we keep clean off the grid? In a gravity fed outdoor shower, that’s how. We’ll be moving the baths indoors when the house is built, but this is how we’ve managed for the last two years and more. Here’s a detailed tour:

The Urban Farmer talks about the scalability of high value crops.