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At Pennsylvania State University, biointensive farming research and instruction program on 8 acre
site, seeks to provide occasions and settings to try ideas that show promise or have worked
elsewhere to highlight and strengthen initiatives.
http://www.psu.edu/dept/cs/biogardens.htm
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Light Writings: John Jeavons
Page on Ecology Action and Biointensive Sustainable Mini-Farming, part of Seed Balls website; brief
informative descriptions, pictures.
http://essenes.crosswinds.net/Light%20Writings.htm
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Biointensive Mini-Agriculture
Bagelhole.org article on biointensive issues: much information, many references. Author teaches
this topic.
http://www.bagelhole.org/article.php/Food/114/
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Minifarms Network
Ken Hargesheimer teaches organic, biointensive, raised bed and market gardening, mini-farming and
-ranching worldwide: articles, periodicals, books, programs, links; suggested applications,
marketing, tools, and methods.
http://www.minifarms.com/
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Film: Garden Song
Award winning educational film portrait of Alan Chadwick, inventor of Biodynamic French Intensive
Method of gardening: 1980, 28 minutes, color, grade level 7+. Sold by Bullfrog Films.
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/gs.html
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Film: Circle of Plenty
Award winning educational film showing John Jeavons demonstrating biointensive methods as a way to
alleviate world hunger: 1987, 28 minutes, color, grade level 7+. Sold by Bullfrog Films. Study
guide available.
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/circle.html
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Biointensive Mini-Farming: A Sustainable Farming System
Editorial at Homestead.org, by Ken Hargesheimer, of the Gardens/Mini-Farms Network; brief, but
wide-ranging description of BIMF history, traits, usage, and applications.
http://www.homestead.org/bimf.htm
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Biointensive Agriculture in Russia and Uzbekistan
Winrock International press release on program for volunteers, one of whom coordinated translation,
typesetting, and publication of John Jeavons 'How to Grow More Vegetables ...' into Russian.
http://www.winrock.org/reed/ftf/rus_biointensive.htm
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Winrock Volunteer Report: Biointensive Farming in Uzbekistan
Winrock International project.
http://www.winrock.org/reed/ftf/uzb_biointensive.htm
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Bountiful Gardens
Biointensive supplies, seeds, garden tools, books, pamphlets, videos; Bountiful Gardens and Ecology
Action workshops; sells all biointensive and Grow Biointensive products.
http://www.bountifulgardens.org/
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Biointensive Gardening
Seattle Tilth pages; brief descriptions, a few links, resources with addresses and phone numbers.
http://www.seattletilth.org/sustgrow/biointsv.htm
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Vegetables: Biointensive Gardening
Page of vegetable gardening and farming books and guides, with a biointensive bias, from Australian
Permaculture Information & Design Service.
http://www.permacult.com.au/plants/veges03.html
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Biointensive for Russia
People-to-people environmental gardening project supported by Ecology Action and USAID. Works via
Russian-language publications and seminars hosted by ecology groups and agricultural colleges in
former Soviet Union.
http://www.igc.org/biointensiveforrussia/
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The Sustainable Vegetable Garden: A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields
By John Jeavons, Carol Cox. Simpler book written for gardeners trying biointensive gardening for
the first time. Focus: soil, and good ways to ensure sustainable fertility. [Amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580080162
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How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine
By John Jeavons. This is the classic work in the field of Biointensive culture, now in its fifth
edition, printed in seven languages. The long title only serves to whet one's appetite.
[Amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580082335
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Winrock Volunteer Report: Biointensive Farming in Russia
Project by Winrock International, founded by former Arkansas governor Winthrop Rockefeller to raise
agricultural productivity and rural employment while protecting the environment.
http://www.winrock.org/reed/ftf/rus_biointensive2.htm
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Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
On campus of University of California, Santa Cruz; research, education, public service program to
raise ecological sustainability and social justice in food and agriculture system. Runs 2-acre Alan
Chadwick Garden, and 25-acre Farm. Both sites managed with organic methods; are research, teaching,
training facilities for students, staff, faculty.
http://zzyx.ucsc.edu/casfs/
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Grow Biointensive Workshops with John Jeavons
Learn with the leading promoter of biointensive methods, a wealth of information on this most
efficient culture method, over 28 years of research, now used in over 100 countries. Author of the
most influential book on this topic: 'How To Grow More Vegetables ...'.
http://www.johnjeavons.info/
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Ecology Action
Leading organization researching and promoting biointensive gardening and mini-farming, and its
relation to soil, conserving soil and resources, sustainability; definitions, tours, workshops,
conferences, books, brief case histories.
http://www.growbiointensive.org/
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