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Spring 2020 - Vol. 22



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Our booklets are now available in electronic format!



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The Korean, Hindi and Turkish translations of The GROW BIOINTENSIVE Farmer's Handbook are now available as downloadable PDFs!



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¡La traducción al español de How to Grow More Vegetables ya está disponible como PDF descargable!



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The Kiswahili translation of How to Grow More Vegetables is now available as downloadable PDF!



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Not sure which compost crop to plant?

Download our handy

compost crop chart!



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The Spanish Language Comunidad Biointensiva page is here!



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How sustainable is your GROW BIOINTENSIVE garden?



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sustainability checklist!

Master Farmer Craig Schaaf shares his methods for growing a bumper crops of heirloom tomatoes!



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The Russian translation of How to Grow More Vegetables is now available as downloadable PDF!



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Atradução em Português de Como Cultivar Mais Vegetais já está disponível em PDF para download!



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Your Biointensive Questions Answered!

Check out our

Frequently Asked Questions section, where you can find answers to Biointensive gardening questions!

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John Jeavons @ Google

John Jeavons spoke at Google in Mountain View on April 12, 2012 about his four decades pioneering biointensive farming and what we can do for food security in the future.

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Acres Interview with John Jeavons







Acres Magazine presents an extensive interview with John Jeavons in the December 2011 issue. Click here to read it!

Video: Women Farmers Using Biointensive in Africa



Watch a presentation about how G-BIACK teaches women farmers in Kenya to use Biointensive farming to build food sovereignty in their communities. By Samuel Nderitu, Director of the Grow Biointensive Agriculture Center of Kenya (G-BIACK -- an Ecology Action partner organization) at the California Food and Justice Coalition's Food Sovereignty Awards Ceremony.



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Our Biointensive

Learning Tools Online

We have created a Self-Teaching Classroom here on our website, where everyone can download a free copy our newest self -teaching guide: A Farmer's Mini -Handbook, and see useful images of Biointensive gardening methods. You can also find links to watch the new series of how-to GROW BIOINTENSIVE videos from John Jeavons and Cynthia Raiser Jeavons!



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GROW BIOINTENSIVE learning centers are sowing the seeds of

food security in Kenya



In Kenya, hunger and poverty are endemic: a majority of Kenyans experience chronic hunger, and farmers are often unable to afford inputs for their farms. Ecology Action and our African partner organizations (Manor House Agricultural Centre, Kilili Self-Help Project and GROW BIOINTENSIVE Agricultural Center of Kenya

(G-BIACK)) are working to provide solutions.



Click to explore the African Biointensive Movement