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Garden Companion Newsletter Issue No. 17
______ 47 Years. 152 Countries. Millions of people educated. Millions of garden beds created. Billions of pounds of fertile soil grown. ...and we're just getting started. Grow Hope. Grow Abundance. GROW BIOINTENSIVE! Please donate to keep our work growing at home and around the world! https://secure.growbiointensive.org/ ___________________________________________ ©2018 Ecology Action. All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Ecology Action's Garden Companion
Editor and Art Director: Shannon Joyner
(Heartfelt thanks and best wishes to former print newsletter editor Leslie Roberts ♥)
Editorial Assistance: Jennifer Bixler and Carol Cox
Contributors: John Jeavons, Matt Drewno, Agustín Medina, Marisol Tenorio, David Troxell, Sydney Grange, Melvin R. Castrillo Cheng, James Christie-Fougere, Sharon Coombs, and GROW BIOINTENSIVE® friends from around the world..
We want to hear from you! Cultivating hope The Jeavons Center mini-farm report Certified GB Farmers in Latin America, Europe and Caribbean The Ollas Project Tulsi: The Queen of Herbs Book Review: Farming for the Long Haul Rwanda: Feeding the Sick with Biointensive GB tours in B.C. Variety trials: key to higher yields and climate-change insurance CA seed library gathering New study: synthetic nitrogen destroys soil organic matter GROW BIOINTENSIVE grows Newsletter Staff and Contributors Help Wanted: Ecology Action is Hiring Biointensive Farmers Seasonally Appropriate DIY: Interplanting with Legumes Volunteer Needed to Translate Farmer's Handbook into Creole Like Us on Facebook A song from a Nicaraguan Biointensivista in Spanish about Biointensive, with English subtitles Click here to donate!

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