About...
Edible
Time
Machine
The future is EDIBLE! Learn to grow your own organic vegetables at the home-scale, here on the wild but mild west coast. In addition to trimming both your grocery budget an carbon food-print, you'll develop a mindful sense of observation, the best fertilizer there is!
Watch the TIMING! Learn to grow the right crop at the right time, blending one harvest into another for continuous production throughout the changing conditions of the growing season. These 'cropumentries' demonstrate the use of catch cropping and carefully timed crop rotations.
Time-lapse video editing shows you how to thin a bed of greens in seconds, or how to grow and rotate multiple crops through the same bed in a matter of minutes. The internet connects my teaching garden directly with yours, providing a virtual garden template to get you growing!
Demonstration
Documentation
Instruction
Are you a beginner or intermediate vegetable gardener who learns best by doing? That's great, because I'm an advanced vegetable gardener who teaches best by doing. So step aboard and allow me to demonstrate...
ETM documents the whole crop production process from seed to scale, showing the dates on which each activity or observation takes place. Each lesson is segmented into video bookmarks so that you can easily access specific dates and activities in specific bed sections.
Rather than teach through generalizations, each video lesson offers crop-specific instruction at appropriate times throughout the growing season. And you'll see that the kitchen scale tends to agree with these growing tips!
About the Maker: Geoff Johnson
Geoff is suspicious of those who claim to have all the answers to BIG problems like climate change, but his adult life has been guided by one key question:
"What would my life look like if I took responsibility for my own carbon footprint"?
So far, the answer involves growing an abundance of food while having an abundance of fun!
Over the past 22 years, Geoff has engaged consistently with various scales and applications of permaculture and ecological gardening, in both public and private spheres, as both teacher and student.
After spearheading projects such as Spring Ridge Commons, Victoria's first public food forest, he has shifted his focus over the past decade to the development of his own 'human habitat' in Victoria, BC, upon which the Edible Time Machine is based.
