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We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
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We started the Grow Biointensive ® method in 1997 after taking a workshop with John Jeavons. We were also starting the Center for Sustainability at Penn State, so the quest to live more lightly on the Earth was uppermost in our minds. We wanted to rebuild our health and the health of our ecosystems, keeping in mind the question: How can we be sure that we are on a healthy, regenerative path with our proposed methods and solutions? How can we ensure that we are not further degrading our world and ourselves? At Neo-Terra we take our proposed methods and solutions as ongoing experiments, subject to assessment, improvement or overhaul as the results indicate! Here you will find applications and case studies where we have sought to answer these questions, and occasions for you to join with us and try these out for yourselves. |
Above: Grow Biointensive ® mini-farm at Neo-Terra
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Work Share & Internships
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NEW ADDITIONS
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Consider working with us! Flexible arrangements!
March through October Details at "Interns" Activities at Neo-Terra
Garden Tours: Contact us for group or private tours.
Mini Workshops 40 opportunities for local gardeners to improve your food growing. Below: Preparing a section for biointensive planting of corn. Hundreds of peas, beets and carrots are taking off in the late spring. The blue sticky trap in the center attracts the beet miner fly before it lays eggs.
Below: Liz, our intern, harvesting sweet potatoes in the fall.
Above: kids from Mt. Nittany Charter School visiting to winnow seeds, sift compost, harvest buckwheat seeds, and clean mint to take home and make tea. Later they ate pawpaws. 
Above: Neo-Terra mid spring, 2022.
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1. Questions & Answers from 2025 topics include rat snakes, Meyer lemons, harvesting lemon grass, pruning overgrown apple, sawfly larvae, antinutrients in kale and spinach, clover as cover crop, garden water filters, among other topics.
2. New Menu Page: Videos & Pics with three new sub pages: Videos, next Images from 2025, and sequence on Erecting Winter Greenhouse 3. Garden Tools and Devices Popular Pages 4. Biointensive Mini -Farms Around the World -- Africa, Latin America, New Zealand, Russia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, U.S. 5. Grow Biointensive ® Introduction, background, tutorials Organic Gardening page 6. Medicinal Plants: How to grow, harvest, prepare and use medicinal herbs, focusing on Stephen Harrod Buhner's Herbal Antibiotics and Herbal Antivirals. 7. Passive House design and retrofits. 8. Pests & Diseases and What To Do About These 9. Organic Gardening Popular Downloads 10. Organic Gardening Primer 11.. 3-Circle Model of Sustainability 12. Buhner Medicinal Plants Remedies Chart 13. Backyard Minifarming Part a 14. Backyard Minifarming Part b 15. Pests and Diseases and what to do about these. 16. Caloric and protein production spreadsheet for 2017 using Grow Biointensive ®. 17. Old Historic House retrofit 18. Garden Questions & Answers 2024 Below: Solar hot air collectors under construction
Above: Sweet potato slips putting out roots
Above: Iris
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Below, left to right: Borage flowers, butterfly, assassin bug nymph, and spring Columbine flowers, all taken at Neo-Terra.
