Category: Projects
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What’s Up @ Lodestar for 2019?
Expanding the scope of our knowledge and experience, our Lodestar compass is recalibrating a new direction for 2019. Our mission remains the same: Provide information, coaching, and an environment that will assist members of our community in living a more self-resilient, self-fulfilling lifestyle through agriculture, art, and health. The exciting part is that we are…
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Collaboration with University of Arizona @ Yuma
University of Arizona @ Yuma Collaboration with Southern Arizona Growers Lodestar Gardens is working with a research team headed up by Professor Kurt Nolte from the University of Arizona in a study of post harvest sanitation methods utilizing natural cleansing agents. The first phase of this project took place in the fall 2013 and 45…
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Fodder Sprouting
Fodder Sprouting Building An Automatic ReCirculating Sprouting System Feeding goats, chickens, and ducks sprouted barley is the goal. Why? Sprouted organic barley is a highly nutritious feeding supplement. We can grow our own chemical-free barley for the seed for this operation, thereby closing one more sustainable loop and reducing our traditional feed bill as well.…
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Lodestar Co-Op Goal: To be a Collaborative Model for Self-Resiliency
Our larger purpose is that the Lodestar Co-Op will serve as a collaborative model for strengthening our regional food shed and nutritional self-resilience one green house and one village at a time. We are not actively seeking grants, loans or financial donations to support this project. The primary goal is increase our capacity to…
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More Projects!
Park in the Swale Create a Food Forest Designed w/ Permaculture Principles Transplant a dozen fruit trees to designated spots along a run-off slope in order to exploit gravity feed irrigation and seasonal rainfall. Each fruit-bearing tree will be the primary shade source for culinary/medicinal shrub(s) which in turn, shade and compliment herbs and…