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    Learn About Green gardening, Green Architecture, Native Americans foraged for food, Trees, Composting, Planting by the Sisters, Organic Farming, Solar Energy and more.
    Learn About Green gardening, Green Architecture, Native Americans foraged for food, Trees, Composting, Planting by the Sisters, Organic Farming, Solar Energy and more.
    Learn About Green gardening, Green Architecture, Native Americans foraged for food, Trees, Composting, Planting by the Sisters, Organic Farming, Solar Energy and more.
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    Learn About Green gardening, Green Architecture, Native Americans foraged for food, Trees, Composting, Planting by the Sisters, Organic Farming, Solar Energy and more.

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    This is a transcript/ script of the award wining DVD, Day on the Organic Farm. It includes over 60 pages of information on: bee keeping, understanding trees and the role they play in energy conservation, green architecture, foraging for food, solar energy year round, composting, organic farming, Planting by the Sisters, and organic cooking. Just real people talking about real ways we can keep our bodies and our planet healthy.
    Topics covered are as follows:
    1. Organic Foods: learn the definition of ‘organic’ and the many ways organic foods are grown, produced and processed through a system of farming. 2. Understanding Trees: Explains how to chose the best tree for your yard and demonstrates how to plant trees that are compatible with your house, property and energy needs. 3. Solar Energy: Explains solar energy usage, systems, cost, and the advantages of using solar energy.
    4. Foraging by Native Americans: Foraging is attracting more and more attention from gourmet cooks, raw food enthusiasts and anyone who is choosing to live a more natural and healthy lifestyle. Find out how to seek out edible wild plants for food like the prehistoric hunter/gatherers and why it is so beneficial for your body.
    5. Composting: To gardeners, compost is considered "black gold" because of its many benefits in the garden. Learn how to make and use compost, troubleshoot problems and why this is the best fertilizer for your garden. 6. Planting by the Sisters: Native peoples from different parts of North America have used a wide range of agricultural techniques. Perhaps the best known is the mixed planting of corn, beans and squash, a trio often referred to as the "three sisters." You can cultivate these companions in your school garden, a barrel, or even indoors and learn more about Native American customs, nutrition and how the three partners benefit one another. For example: Corn provides support for beans... beans have bacteria living on their roots which helps corn grow... the large, prickly squash leaves shade the soil, preventing weed growth and deterring animal pests. This is a wonderfully efficient and nutritional way to garden. 7. Organic Farming: Organic farming has become one of the fastest growing segments of U.S. agriculture.
    8. Green Architecture: Learn the philosophy of designing a building that is in harmony with the natural features of any location so it is green, sustainable and aesthetic.
    9. Organic Cooking: Learn how to make organic sourdough bread and the benefits of cooking organically.
    If you want to eat healthier and do your part to help the environment, then this ebook is for you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Gifted Learning Project
    Release dateApr 12, 2011
    Learn About Green gardening, Green Architecture, Native Americans foraged for food, Trees, Composting, Planting by the Sisters, Organic Farming, Solar Energy and more.

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      Learn About Green gardening, Green Architecture, Native Americans foraged for food, Trees, Composting, Planting by the Sisters, Organic Farming, Solar Energy and more. - The Gifted Learning Project

      DAY ON THE ORGANIC FARM:

      Learn about Green gardening, Green Architecture, Native Americans foraged for food, Trees, Composting, Planting by the Sisters, Organic Farming, Solar Energy and more.

      Script from the DVD DAY ON THE ORGANIC FARM

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      G. Sagmiller

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      Published by The Gifted Learning Project at Smashwords

      DAY ON THE ORGANIC FARM:

      Copyright © 2011 by G. Sagmiller

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      DAY ON THE ORGANIC FARM

      Commentator: Each year, people around the country gather on an organic farm to learn and exchange ideas on healthy living, organic products, and being green. This last year, we filmed the event, so those unable to attend can also enjoy and learn. All proceeds from the event and this DVD support the non-profit group, The Gift of Learning Project. Thank you for your support.

      Noreen: Registered, Michelle with daughters. If not, register there. But let’s start at nine o’clock now with our sessions. We’re a little late. We’re going to have Randy Nelson—raise your hand. Randy’s going to be talking about planting trees. You’re going to actually plant some trees. We’re going to put you to work. And you’re going to learn from my mistakes, as well. As you notice, some of the grove out here is probably a little overgrown. So you’ll learn from my mistakes, as well.

      Also, we have bee keeping by Paul Luthy. Paul and Laurie. Can you raise your hand? And the benefits of bees, how you do it. So follow Randy with the green shirt for tree planting, and follow Paul for the bee keeping.

      So we’ll all come back to the tent shortly after ten and get to our next sessions. We have ongoing, too, is sewing T-shirt, bags, making your shopping bags with lovely Laurie. Laurie, can you raise your hand?

      Laurie: Yeah. I think it’s pretty obvious who’s sewing.

      Noreen: All right. We are ready to go. And the band, then we’ll have you play in the next session. So, all right, enjoy your first session. Thank you.

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      BEE KEEPING

      Session Attendee: In the spring, it’s ideal. Did you get yours in the spring?

      Paul: No. I actually bought a full hive from the…the guy that has the apple orchard over by Lake Ida. Well, I’ve been getting…there’s different ways to get your bees, but I’ve been getting mine in this, like, three pounds and a queen. The queen comes in her own little cage here, a little cork in the end. And then there’s three pounds of bees in here. And this is…they don’t like it in here. So when you get them, you want to get them in the hive as soon as you can.

      So then you just, yeah, it comes with a feeder can in here, which has syrup in here so they survive the trip, because these came from California. So you pull out the queen cage, you pull out the cork on the end, and you stick the queen in the cage, down in there. And then you dump the bees on there as quick as you can. Because I had one this year, I pulled the cork out, and she flew. But you know what, I grabbed her. I grabbed her with my hand, and I…and I threw her back in here. It was amazing. How often can that happen?

      So you just…you just get all the bees out of there, and then you…and then you put the cover back on and...

      This is a smoker. It’s very important, isn’t it? You can…you can get by without the veil sometimes, you know, to go in and inspect them. But you want a…you want to smoke them. So you just give them a little puff of smoke, and then you open the cover, and you kind of puff the smoke. And then it just calms them down.

      On a nice sunny day, they probably won’t sting you. You know, they’re just…but you get into the fall when it gets cold. Then you definitely want to have a veil on and a lot of smoke and probably the whole bee outfit. Because they really get crabby, and they’re just all over you, you know. But I don’t know…

      Session Attendee: What did your inserts look like before they did the honeycomb?

      Paul: Okay. They’re…they were…they were just flat. They were just flat wax. It’s called foundation, but it’s just…it’s flat wax. It’s like a piece of paper in there.

      Session Attendee: Okay. You put that in there, and then they build the honeycomb then from there.

      Paul: And then they pull it out, yeah. And this is what it actually looks like after it’s been extracted. See how it’s kind of jumbled up here? Because when you put it in the extractor, the…there’s knives that…well, a finished comb of honey, they cap it over. They fill these little holes, and then they cap it over. So you…when you put it in the extractor, it cuts off the cap ends first. And that’s why it’s so messed up here. When you put this back in the beehive, they’ll straighten it all out. They just make it beautiful again.

      Session Attendee: So you…would…if you got new bees in this, you’d just leave it like that? You wouldn’t scrape it all off or anything?

      Paul: Yeah. They’ll patch it all up. They…they just do fantastic work. They’re just amazing.

      Session Attendee: And if you didn’t have an extractor, could you just kind of scrape it off and let it drip out? Or…

      Paul: Yes, you can. There’s…there’s little scratchers that you can get. Or if you have to, you can just…just scratch with a hive tool. And this is a hive tool.

      Session Attendee: And is there a way to get the bee pollen away from the honey?

      Paul: There is. There’s a little…there’s a little…I should have brought that with me, but there’s a little attachment you put on…this is where they enter. And, of course, they’ve got…there’s different duties of the bees. And there’s…there’s guard bees close to that entrance here that guard the hive. And they say they

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