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1984
The Peace Corps uses the French translation
of How to Grow More Vegetables for
training in Togo, West Africa. Growing and
Gathering Your Own Fertilizers, a booklet,
is published in response to an appeal from
Eastern Europe for more detailed gardening
advice. A 3-year apprentice program
begins at the Willits site. The Manor
House Agricultural Centre Biointensive
Program begins in Kenya, East Africa,
with Ecology Action’s assistance. The East
Coast site sponsors a Biointensive conference
for agronomists and university professors.
A successful Biointensive training
project is reported in Tanzania. Mexico’s
Social Security Program reports 2,000
Biointensive growing beds established in
67 communities in northeastern Mexico
as part of its Menos y Mejores (“Fewer Is
Better”) program. Ecology Action emphasizes
complete diet mini-farming.
1985
Ecology Action publishes One Circle: How
to Grow a Complete Diet in Under 1,000
Square Feet, by David Duhon and Cindy
Gebhard. How to Grow More Vegetables
is translated into German. Segments of
Circle of Plenty, a PBS-TV special of Ecology
Action’s work, is taped in Willits. Staff
and apprentices at the Willits site begin
terracing mountainside growing beds and
soil upgrading. Ecology Action acts as
advisor to a garden project in Zambia and
to a California restaurant garden. Visitors
to the California site include people from
Tibet, Trinidad, Kenya, Brazil, the Philippines,
the Dominican Republic, Canada,
England, Mexico, Australia, Zambia,
Nepal, and Ethiopia. Timberleaf Farm
becomes Ecology Action’s official East
Coast site, emphasizing economic minifarming
and soil research. Gary Stoner
completes a 1-year apprenticeship at
Willits and begins the Living Soil Garden
Project with the Menos y Mejores
program in Tula, Mexico.
1986
Growing to Seed is published, and PBS-TV
segments are taped in Tula, Mexico. The
International Institute of Rural Recon-
struction Biointensive Gardening Project
establishes 300 Biointensive beds on the
island of Negros in the Philippines as part
of a UNICEF project for malnourished
children.
1987
Circle of Plenty, the PBS documentary on
Ecology Action’s work in Willits and Gary
Stoner’s work in Tula, Mexico, is broadcast
nationwide. A feature article appears
in The Christian Science Monitor on World
Food Day. Ecology Action staff visit and
advise the Menos y Mejores project in
Mexico. The Complete 21-Bed Biointensive
Mini-Farm booklet is published. Steve
Rioch begins a Biointensive mini-farm
demonstration, research, and education
project at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
Work at the Timberleaf Farm site is postponed
until the Ohio University project
is completed. John Jeavons is named a
member of the Giraffe Project, honoring
people who stick their necks out for the
common good, and he receives a Santa Fe
Global Village Living Treasure award.
Ecology Action emphasizes sustainable
soil fertility.
1988
The One Basic Mexican Diet, Foliar
Feeding, and Backyard Garden Research
booklets are published. The first 3-week
workshop is offered in the Common
Ground mini-farm in Willits, California.
The workshop is based on hands-on
demonstration and a preliminary
curriculum/workbook, which is the
distillation of 16 years of Ecology Action’s
learning and experience. The Manor
House Agricultural Centre in Kenya, East
Africa, initiates an active 2-year apprentice
program. The Philippines Department of
Education mandates teaching of Biointensive
gardening in all primary and
secondary schools. The director of the
Menos y Mejores program in Mexico
visits the Common Ground mini-farm for
advanced training, which results in
upgraded training for 250 key teachers in
Mexico. An article on sustainable soil
fertility, economic mini-farming, and Biointensive
approaches is published in California
Farmer. John Jeavons is presented
with the 19th Boise Peace Quilt Award.
1989
A 4-year bachelor of science degree
program is approved (subject to funding)
at Ohio University, under the auspices of
the Botany Department. The first accredited
class in Biointensive mini-farming is
taught during the summer session.
Feature articles appear in Mother Earth
News, Vegetarian Times, and a United
States Information Agency publication.
There is a second national broadcast of
Circle of Plenty. Thirty-five agronomists
from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras,
and Costa Rica tour the Willits site. The
first 5-day workshop is held at the Willits
site with participants from the United
States and Mexico. Lectures are held at
Stanford University, Clemson University,
and Ohio University at Athens. Micro-
Farming: A Seventeen Year Perspective, A
Reading Guide, Micro-Farming as a Key to
the Revitalization of the World’s Agriculture
and Environment, and Green Manure
Crops, new booklets, are published. Man
of the Trees: Selected Writings of Richard
St. Barbe Baker, edited by Karen Gridley,
is published. St. Barbe Baker inspired the
planting of trillions of trees worldwide
during his lifetime. Lectures are given in
Mexico to farmers, students, agronomists,
and professors. Talks are sponsored by
Mexico’s Menos y Mejores program.
Over 63,000 Biointensive gardens are
reported in Mexico.
1990
Biointensive Composting, A Comprehensive
Definition of Sustainability, and Dried, Cut
and Edible Flowers for Pleasure, Food and
Income, three booklets, are published.
The first 6-week workshop is given at the
Willits site with advanced participants
from Mexico, Kenya, the Soviet Union,
and the United States. A 5-day workshop
is given at Stanford University for participants
from Mexico and the United States.
A 5-day workshop is given at Stanford
University for 9 participants from the
Soviet Union and another another is given
at the Willits site for particpants from
Mexico and the United States. United
States Agricultural Extension agents are
given a class on sustainable soil fertility.
Two classes are given at Ohio University
during the summer session. A Latin