Talks and Workshops

This talk tells how people can make use of our (primarily) free services. In this talk, which I try to make both entertaining and educational, I (1) explore briefly whether there is a food shortage (pictures of malnutrition) or food surplus (problems of western farmers), (2) discuss what kind of problems development workers encounter when they want to help small farmers, (3) give examples of (sometimes amusing) technical questions they have asked us, (4) talk about some of the most interesting underutilized plants in our seedbank (as well as a few we removed because of ecological danger), (5) show pictures of methods used to grow gardens in light-weight beds above ground on pavement or rooftops using recycled or waste materials (including Port-au-Prince and the roof of a prison in Russia).