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Green design     Grow Biointensive ®   Organic gardening     Living technologies     Holistic Health

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.   

We started the Grow Biointensive ® method in 1997 after taking a workshop with John Jeavons. Since then we have striven to live more lightly on the Earth and 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.

Biointensive garden
   Above: Grow Biointensive ® mini-farm at Neo-Terra

Work Share & Internships

             RECENT ADDITIONS

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.  

biointensive planting of corn, peas, beets, carrots

Below: Liz, our intern, harvesting sweet potatoes in the fall.

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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.
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Above:  Neo-Terra mid spring, 2022.

1. Questions & Answers for 2023 topics from pawpaws,
    persimmons, electroculture, compost tea, renovating an old
    garden bed,
and many others. For Q&s from previous years,
    go to our Questions & Answers page.

2. Questions & Answers fro 2024  topics from definition of
    organic, tomato hornworm, Eastern milk snake, pawpaw
    toxins, mulching strawberries and many others.
3. Video Tania uncovering our winter greenhouse bed    

4. Video tour of Neo-Terra spring garden  created by our 
    intern Julian (put setting to High Definition).
5. Video Gene makes fermented beets  created by our
    intern Julian.
6. Julian's video report of his internship at Neo-Terra in 
    2022 (put setting to High Definition).

7. Drone tour of Longwood Gardens Conservatory
    (slow to 0.5 speed -- more relaxing).

 
                   Popular Pages

8. Biointensive Mini -Farms Around the World -- Africa, 
    Latin America, New Zealand, Russia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka,
    Switzerland, U.S.

9. Passive House design and retrofits.
10. Grow Biointensive
®  Introduction, background, tutorials
      Organic Gardening page 

11. Medicinal Plants: How to grow, harvest, prepare and
      use medicinal herbs, focusing on Stephen Harrod Buhner's
      Herbal Antibiotics and Herbal Antivirals.


                Popular Downloads

12.  Organic Gardening Primer
13.. 3-Circle Model of Sustainability

14.  Buhner Medicinal Plants Remedies Chart
15.  Backyard Minifarming Part a
16.   Pests and Diseases  and what to do about these.
17.  Backyard Minifarming Part b

18.  Caloric and protein production spreadsheet for 2017 
       using Grow Biointensive
®.
19.  Old Historic House retrofit

 Below: Solar hot air collectors under construction
Solar hot air collector
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Above:  Sweet potato slips putting out roots
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Above: Iris
                Below, left to right: Borage flowers, butterfly, assassin bug nymph, and spring Columbine flowers, all taken at Neo-Terra.
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