Abundant Harvests: Resources

Garden classes
Online resources from the food gardening classes I teach in the Westchester area of Los Angeles. These are gradually being rewritten to become part of the full Abundant Harvests manuscript)

Introduction to Organic Gardening - the main concepts (pdf)
Compost workshop photo essay
Greywater
Pest Control: slugs and snails
Planting times for vegetables in So Calif (Digitalseed)
Rainwater Harvesting
Seed Saving
Soil Building
Vegetable Crop Rotations
Vegetable Garden Design in brief - handout written for the Emerson Ave Community Garden
Water Wisdom
my Edible Landscaping resource page
calendar of my food gardening classes

Feral Vegetables

Slideshow: Harvesting nettles in my L.A. backyard
Feral Vegetables / Guerrilla Gardening discussion group - includes DATABASE of feral vegetables, plus LINKS to videos of Masanobu Fukuoka, making seedbombs, and more

Cooking

Solar cooking: How to build my panel solar cooker (pdf)
my solar cooking resource page

About the author

Joanne Poyourow has grown food in Southern California urban spaces for nearly three decades. She teaches organic vegetable gardening classes in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles.

She is the designer of the well-known Community Garden at Holy Nativity, and was the concept designer for the new Emerson Avenue Community Garden, both in Los Angeles.

Joanne is deeply involved in the Transition movement. She is widely-regarded as the initiator who brought the ideas of the international movement to Los Angeles. She is the co-founder of the Environmental Change-Makers in Westchester, and is active in coordinating the activities of the Transition Los Angeles city hub.

You can find Joanne's blog here. She has written a booklet on "Economic Resilience." She is also the author of two books: Environmental Change-Making and the future-envisioning novel Legacy.

Read more about Joanne here.

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