Grow Food Everywhere

Want to get young people to eat fresh vegetables? Help them grow it themselves. In the words of one young Seeds of Leadership (SOL) gardener: "I put my blood, sweat and tears into growing them, which makes them a lot more delicious to me." The SOL garden builds skills and confidence and teaches youth about issues of environmental and social justice and food resiliency.

Seeds of Solidarity Education Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in Orange MA, supported through grants and the generosity of individual contributors. Seeds of Solidarity provides people of all ages with the inspiration and practical skills to use renewable energy and grow food in their communities.

Herbalism Basics

This is a series of 6 YouTube videos explaining the basic principals of making various herbal preperations.

Video 1: Infusion



Video 2: Decoction



Video 3: Tincture



Video 4: Infused oil



Video 5: Ointment



Video 6: Cream

Marcin Jakubowski: Open-Sourced Blueprints For Civilization

Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000). 

Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing a set of blueprints for 50 farming tools that can be built cheaply from scratch. Call it a "civilization starter kit." Declaring that, "We can lead self-sustaining lives without sacrificing our standard of living," Marcin Jakubowski believes that only by opening the means of production can we achieve abundance for all. Though he has a Ph.D. in fusion physics, he became dissatisfied with its remoteness, and turned back to the earth as a farmer and social innovator.

He is the founder of Open Source Ecology, which is creating the Global Village Construction Set — the blueprints for simple fabrication of everything needed to start a self-sustaining village. At Factor e Farm in rural Missouri, he's been successfully putting those ideas to the test. "It's not reinventing the wheel; it's open-sourcing the wheel."