[GardenGirl]

Hey Peak Oil,

I have joined the national PBS show Farmer's Almanac TV! I will have my national debut in the spring of 2008. Farmers Almanac TV is carried by over 300 PBS stations nationwide, and I have joined them for season three, subscribe to my newsletter for behind the scenes stills and stuff.

Check out their website www.farmersalmanac.com. My first video is up for there, in the video player section. Please rate, comment, forward, post and share the video. I have shot another hundred hours of tape and new video's will get released there here is the first video:

Here is a link:

http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsptitle ... el=2150793

I bit off more than I could chew but this summer I shot over a hundred hours with segments like:

How to build a chicken tractor
Heirloom Tomato's
Indoor Gardening
Hoop houses
Goat Shearing
Poultry
Livestock
Urban Farmstand
and at least sixty other subjects I can't remember now.

My website is close to relaunching, here is a preview of what it will be soon:

http://www.sonoradesignworks.com/client ... ign-1.html

Sign up for my newsletter at my old site www.gardengirltv.com and I will send you my back newsletters which have secret previews for a few other new video's as well cool still photo's and my near record tomato.

My company's new documentary Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome will have it's world premiere at AFI 2007, come hang on the red carpet with me in November.

http://theenvelope.latimes.com/movies/e ... l=env-news

And last but not least. Thank you all. With your help I will be able to inform the world on how to prepare for the comming peak oil crisis in a way that makes them feel empowered and make a meaniful contribution to the environment in the process. I honestly believe that the Peak Oil community helped make all this possible and thank you.


Patti
The Garden Girl
www.gardengirltv.com
info@gardengirltv.com

[jasonraymondson]

I was thinking for some reason we had a garden girl here already.. So I open up a thread and it is just someone promoting their stupid television show on a station no one but elderly watch.

[Ludi]

Congratulations! I knew you could do it!

[GardenGirl]

Thanks for the words Jason, I am changing all my identities, I am the same Garden Girl. Watch my stuff so you wont have to trade your grand children for eggs after peak oil hits(Smiley face!). Thanks Ludi as well. It's really exciting!

The cool thing about Farmers Almanac is that they were sustainable before there was such a word! They get it.

Patti
THE GARDEN GIRL

[Ferretlover]

Looks interesting, Patty. Good Luck!

[DomusAlbion]

Every village needs its idiot. Thank you, Jason, you remain true to form.

[GardenGirl]

For those that just signed up for the newsletter, I sent out some of the most recent ones. So check your email or maybe your junk files.

I hope you like it. Did you see my almost record tomato! How cool is that!

Patti

[seahorse]

GG, how many topics are you going to open on here advertising yourself? So far, I count 2.

[GardenGirl]

Seahorse, I think these two should do it, do you think I need more (smiley face)? I will advertise in the Google window once my website is ready for launch, and I make some money on my "protest" doc Welcome to the Terrordome. Just doing my part to save the planet. My web videos and tv stuff is free to viewer, and I hope to keep it that way.

Patti

[Chuckmak]

Congratulations, hun!

[GardenGirl]

Thanks Chuckmak!

Here's something for fun:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 0025167048

[Narz]

Congrats!

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'I') was thinking for some reason we had a garden girl here already.. So I open up a thread and it is just someone promoting their stupid television show on a station no one but elderly watch.

[Kylon]

Good Luck Garden Girl!

[GardenGirl]

Here's my latest draft of my home page. What do you think?

http://www.sonoradesignworks.com/client ... ain-1.html

Patti

[dukey]

it's good that you are doing something pro active
some people around here just like to predict armageddon style futures then do nothing about it.

Btw apple trees are a real winner. Plant a few, do nothing to them all year, then they just give you a tonne of fruit.

[GardenGirl]

Apple trees are the best. I have six dwarfs that kick it all year. Not only do they make a lot of fruit, fruit makes wine!

Patti

[Plantagenet]

Good work, Garden Girl.

I only have one request. On those sunny days when the temperatures get hot and you are out there rooting about in the garden, I'd love to see you try wearing a halter top with yellow polka dots and a big straw sun hat. Its a classic style and it would look good on you......GOOD LUCK!

[Aaron]

[RedStateGreen]

Congratulations! That's awesome!

I've enjoyed all your videos so far. I would never have thought of doing aquaculture on my property until I saw your episode with the fish pond in it.

[kadoomsoon]

Exactly how we all should be living. It is nice to have a talent to share and give out information. It looks very useful for those getting ready for the economic release.

We have lived similarly, learning from nothing to living completely from our 80x60 garden for two years now and have bought no food at all from any supermarket. Except salt and bakers yeast which we get from a small mexican bakery, the wet yeast is the very best. So we splurge. Year two was much better with more variety. It is completely doable. Our last fast food was a burrito from Taco bell in 2004.


Very nice videos.

You could have a series on canning
Drying - Cut tomatoes into half-inch thick slices and fill dryer, dry till crispy, then put in jars and vacuum seal. you can get 50 tomatoes in the quart jar and they are super good and stay crispy.

we through trial and error found excalibur food dehydrators top of the line, we can lieterally put up hundreds of pounds of food into just a few pounds of "freeze dried" packages. (vacuum pack after drying will last forever)

Freeze dried crispy cucumbers are better than anyu potato chip you ever ate... ddried berries, all this rehydrates in cooking.

Vids on storing food making clothes, etc.



Good work.