The topics covered in Homemade Sustainability
Homemade and Sustainable Family Garden
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- Introduction - Workshop Presentation.
Join us in this initiative dedicated to sustainability and sharing practical knowledge. Discover how to create a family garden and adopt a more sustainable lifestyle. Introduction by Marco Zullo to the Workshop.
- Introduction - From Theory to Practice.
Carlo Triarico, President of the Biodynamic Agriculture Association, illustrates the importance of considering horticulture as part of a larger living organism and the systemic and organic approach necessary to care for a garden. Discover how to practically integrate these concepts into your garden care.
- Conventional, Organic, and Biodynamic Agriculture.
In today's video, we discuss the fundamental differences between conventional, organic, and biodynamic agriculture.
- Vital Forces - Roots, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits.
From the presentation of the kingdoms of nature to the distinctive characteristics of the biological life of plants: roots, earth elements, and etheric life forces; leaves, water elements, and etheric chemical forces; flowers, air elements, and etheric light forces; fruits, fire elements, and etheric heat forces.
- Fertilization - In Harmony with Nature.
Fertilization: the importance of maintaining agricultural activity in harmony with natural processes. From the role of humus and the formation of colloidal structure to the effects on plants of chemical fertilization and fresh manure.
- Fertilization - The Composting Heap.
If you're interested in learning the fundamentals of composting and getting practical advice, this video is for you. Suitable materials for composting, positioning and formation of the composting heap, as well as the use of amendments and the carbon-nitrogen ratio are examined.
- Fertilization - The Domestic Composting Heap.
Home composting using a metal net. Practical tips on heap maintenance, weed and seed management.
- Fertilization - When, How, What.
Here are some general guidelines on fertilization: When, How, What.
- Macerations - How to Prepare Them.
Here are the phases for preparing a maceration. From nettle, cabbage, or tomato maceration, to those against weeds.
- Green Manure - How It's Done.
The importance and implementation of green manure even in garden development: useful for enriching the soil and increasing the percentage of humus.
- Horticulture - Designing the Garden.
Valuable advice on the importance of the location and orientation of the garden, hedges, pond, and biodiversity.
- Horticulture - Rotations and Companion Planting.
Improve agricultural production with vegetable rotations, in particular, we analyze 1) rotation based on the consumption of organic matter, 2) rotation according to companion planting, and 3) the so-called "dynamic rotation" according to flowering, root, leaf, and fruit plants.
- Horticulture - Seed, Transplant, Harvest Calendar.
Garden planning: the best periods for sowing, transplanting, and harvesting various plants.
- Horticulture - The Hedge.
The importance of the hedge in the garden for creating a favorable microclimate and protection from the weather. Tips on plant selection, height, and optimal hedge positioning.
- Soil Cultivation - Hand Tools.
The importance of hand tools: the hoe, the pig's tooth, and the fork with curved teeth to aerate the soil and promote bacterial activity. Tips for transplanting and loosening the soil and the effect of different cultivations.
- Soil Cultivation - Hoeing.
The benefits of hoeing the soil: aeration and nitrogen supply.
- Pesticides - Insects and Animals.
The importance of the agricultural environment and natural balance. Humans, with their interventions, can influence the living conditions of plants and the balance of beneficial insects, crucial in controlling harmful insects.
- Pesticides - Pathogenic Fungi.
The most common causes favoring the onset of pathogenic diseases.
- Pesticides - Preventing Fungal Diseases.
Some remedies to prevent fungal diseases.
- Pesticides - Infusions, Herbal Teas, and Decoctions.
A useful guide to herbs to be used as infusion, herbal tea, extract, or decoction.
- Weeds - Which Ones and Why?
Why do weeds arise? and which ones are they?
- Weeds - Remedies.
Natural methods for managing weeds in soils, from false sowing to the creation and application of an herbal macerate.
- Sustainable Garden as an Agricultural Organism.
"The Garden as an Agricultural Organism", thanks to the presence of living elements, such as soil, plants, animals, and even a composting heap. The importance of considering the farm or garden as a complex system characterized by evolving operation, capable of actively responding to information and compensating for difficulties.
- Garden Example - Mulching.
Discover the benefits of straw mulching, the use of fladen preparation, and experiences with different types of mulching.
- Garden Example - Clay Soil.
In this video, we propose some practices to increase the fertility of clay soil.
- Biodynamic Focus - Preparatory 500 Horn Manure.
We explore the preparation and use of biodynamic preparations in biodynamic agriculture. Specifically, we will address the benefits, preparation, and use of "Preparatory 500", the so-called "Horn Manure".
- Biodynamic Focus - Horn Manure, where to find it?
Where to find the "Preparation 500", the so-called "Horn Manure", ready for use or the material to make it.
- Biodynamic Focus - Preparation 501 Horn-Silica.
We explore the preparation and use of biodynamic preparations in biodynamic agriculture. Specifically, we will address the benefits, preparation, and use of "Preparation 501", the so-called "Horn-Silica".
- Biodynamic Focus - Compost Preparations.
We delve into the specifics of biodynamic preparations from compost created with officinal herbs that bring benefits to the garden: Preparation 502 - Yarrow Flowers, Preparation 503 - Chamomile Flowers, Preparation 504 - Nettle, Preparation 505 - Oak Bark, Preparation 506 - Dandelion Flowers, Preparation 507 - Valerian Flowers.
- Biodynamic Focus - FLADEN and 500K Preparations.
Compost preparation through Fladen or 500K Preparation.
- Biodynamic Focus - Introduction to the Sowing Calendar.
Here are the fundamental concepts of the biodynamic sowing calendar, with a focus on the importance of the sowing time, on the expansion and contraction that characterize the breath of the course of the year.
- Biodynamic Focus - The Sowing Calendar.
Practical example of using the Biodynamic Sowing Calendar.
- Biodynamic Focus - Sowing Experiments.
The video provides an overview of the experiments conducted by D. Cisco on the influence of the moon on plant growth. Different types of plants and the results obtained are examined, highlighting the differences related to lunar phases. The research provides interesting insights into the effect of the moon on plants.