Rebel Gardening: A beginner’s handbook to organic urban gardening

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Learn about Korean Natural Farming techniques, including how to make simple treatments that will nourish your soil far better than any chemical.

Do you know a gardener, greener, community gardener or adopter of feral lands who's digging for a better society? Perhaps there's someone in your life who's on a mission to change the world one vegetable patch at a time? Let us know below about the projects you find inspiring and perhaps we'll feature them here.Never create food waste again by creating compost in an odourless composting system that can be kept inside.

Our approach focuses on selecting the right materials and combinations of plants to suit the environment. We design as much as possible with what the garden already has to offer. The book also looks at composting, including composting indoors, and growing seasonally so that you have fresh food available when nature says it’s ready, not whenever food is flown in from other parts of the world.The focus on the book is to be healthy but to also be more sustainable for the planet and reduce CO2 emissions.One great advantage of growing in small spaces is that you can use the shade to your advantage. If you grow cucumbers vertically up a trellis, like I have, you can move your pots around on hot summer days so your lettuces can follow their shade. This is a bit like people sitting around the pool on holiday, chasing the sun or the shade as the sun moves.

If you’ve been keeping up-to-date, you’ll know our Rebel Garden Project Internship has worked with systems-impacted youth since Spring ‘22 focused on food justice, creative entrepreneurship, and skill-building. The second round of interns just spent a successful semester learning to grow food in an urban garden and learned to conceptualize, design, and brand all creative materials for launching their first enterprise as certified vendors at Central Avenue Farmer’s Market! Nature inspired garden design and creation focusing on the use of natural materials and thoughtfully selected plants. Do you live in the city and yearn for the space and time to grow your own food and live more connected with nature and the seasons? Rebel Gardening shows that anyone can grow a garden of delicious organic fruit and vegetables, wildlife-friendly wildflowers and abundant herbsin absolutely any urban space with a bit of know-how. From techniques to the tools you need, and any other things you might need to build it is all explained. For every item you will need, the diagrams show just how to do things. From your own irrigation system to saving seeds. Alessandro Vitale has taken the time to motivate you into having your own organic urban garden. If you think you don’t have the space, he will help you realize you can still have your own garden. Worried you don’t have a green thumb on you, the guidance provided will get you to see that you do.Many gardeners struggle with growing lettuce in the middle of summer; sitting in direct sunlight causes it to bolt and go into flower. Thanks to your small space, you can succeed with plants that people with larger gardens will struggle to grow. You just have to be mindful of how the sun moves. Our first Public Art Apprenticeship has concluded at Environmental Charter Schoolin Gardena! It's been a wonderful summer of creativity and collaboration as this select group of high school apprentices assisted artistNiNo Alicea as he and his team built large-scale, sustainable public art sculpture, " ATABEY'S TREASURE” in preparation for Burning Man 2023!

The one area that didn’t work for me is that in his quest for sustainability he uses quite a lot of containers I wouldn’t consider optimal, especially for organic gardening. Not only does he use lots of plastic containers with no talk about how plastics degrade and are taken up in the soil, but he recommends planting food crops in old tires (lined with plastic). I commend him for reusing materials and caring for the environment, but I personally would not feel great about using those materials to grow food and wish he’d at least discussed the topic for new gardeners who might not know about potential health risks. Those of us growing for children or pregnant women need to be especially mindful of the risks. When vegetable shortages hit supermarkets earlier this month, I was probably less concerned than most salad lovers. I’ve been an urban gardener for seven years, growing my own food in an 8x5m space in London. It all began for me as a tribute to my grandfather, who taught me everything I know about gardening and the living soil around us: how to use every part of the fruit and vegetables I grow; the importance of micro-organisms; using organic practices to nurture plants and protect Mother Earth. Organic gardening expert Alessandro Vitale wants you to embrace the living soil and establish your own city eden where creatures and plants can coexist, in harmony with our modern lives. We use naturalistic plantingprinciples to create gardens that are dynamic and that in time will develop into harmonious systems full of life and beauty. If you are excited to learn all about organic gardening, then it is the must have book of this year for you to read.Organic gardening expert Alessandro Vitale wants you to embrace the living soiland establish your own city eden where creatures and plants can coexist, in harmony with our modern lives. He shares his low-cost and organic approach with all the essential guidance you will need, including his top 50 plants for beginner gardeners, with a plethora of information on how to plant and look after them and how to make the most of all your produce. Learn how to make vegan honey with dandelions, establish a micro-orchard, or brew a natural antibiotic from garlic. It's been a lot of hard work, and no small amount of magic to transform this space, and we are really proud of the results. Our ultimate goal for this project is to helpclose the nature gap for over 800 urban youth in the area through an on-campus native garden and learning space. Recycle and reuse everything! Turn a plastic bottle into a vertical hanging garden, a self-watering pot, a mini greenhouse or a DIY irrigation system. This amazing book contains a wealth of information about all aspects of urban gardening, regardless of space constraints. The author explains in very clear terms a number of gardening methods and plant choices that will work in almost any urban space and setting. It is a valuable reference book I will return to again and again.