Cannabis Chronicles

Yesterday we shared with our readers an essay on molasses by Malcolm Beck from his book The Garden-Ville Method. Today’s entry is another fascinating piece from the same book, this time on the virtues of saving seed.
Breeding elitists often tell farmers, and members of the medicinal herb community, that they are better off leaving [...]

Here’s another “classic” organic narrative we wanted to share with our readers.
My Grandfather’s Earthworm Farm
by George Sheffield Oliver
The story of a self-contained farm of 160 acres, maintained in ever-increasing fertility over a period of more than sixty years, through the utilization of earthworms. A true story related to Thomas J. Barrett by Dr. George Sheffield [...]

As our readers already know, Lady Eve Balfour was a groundbreaking organic advocate who organized some of the first experiments with the long terms effects of what is now called organic or sustainable agriculture.
Here’s another organic classic, a piece by Lady Eve Balfour, originally written as the introduction to the book Harnessing the Earthworm by [...]

Things have been hectic lately at the 3lb’s Birdnest, and with all the colds and flu that went around this last winter, both Tweedy bird and I are feeling kind of drained. We’ve planned and outlined a bit more original material to be written, but we never seem to have the energy left at [...]

We’d hoped to have finished our own version of a biography for Lady Eve Balfour by now, but a variety of personal, family, and work commitments have not allowed us to complete that goal. Rather than leave our readers hanging, we’ll provide a great short biography by Oliver C. Fox that’s better than anything [...]

I’m planning to create a “bird’s eye” look at Lady Eve Balfour later this week, much as I did recently for Dr William Albrecht. Until that’s completed, I wanted to share a “teaser”, a classic address from a pioneering lady in organic and sustainable agriculture.
Towards a Sustainable Agriculture–The Living Soil
By Lady Eve Balfour
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As we stated in previous postings here at the Cannabis chronicles, Doctor William Albrecht was rather prolific in the number of publications and studies he had published. Not only does that leave behind the 4 volume Albrecht Papers series of books published by Acres USA, but it also leaves behind a wealth of material [...]

We’d really like to give our readers a more in depth look at Dr Albrecht and his research, but we’ve concentrated our studies primarily in the area of Albrecht’s teachings about plant nutrition. With that in mind, we can’t honestly produce a well rounded look at the entire essence of his teachings at this [...]

As we said before, it’s not exactly normal subject matter for a cannabis website, but we consider Dr Albrecht’s methods to be one secret of our past medical marijuana growing successes at the bird’s nest.
In case anyone was wondering about the variety and volume of papers produced by Dr William Albrecht, the research staff (a [...]

At first glance, a discussion of Dr William Albrecht would appear to be a very strange topic for a medical marijuana blog. To the best of our knowledge, Dr Albrecht himself never had a thing to do with Cannabis, and we have no idea how he’d feel about the political issues surrounding medical-pot. [...]