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Going Gravel: A new age in gardening

Welcome to a new age in gardening; Gravel Gardening. Yes, we have found a way to grow and sustain vegetables, fruits and flowering plants using nothing more than gravel, sand and cotton based fabric. The use of gravel in the cultivation of crops may represent the most resource efficient method of growing crops ever to exist. The ingredients are all natural and last a lifetime. Geological Agriculture is the process of growing fruits, vegetables and flowers in rock environments. Known also as geo-agriculture or gravel gardening, this method of cultivating crops enables vegetation to occur and sustain itself with limited to no use of soil and fertilizers.

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To Soil Less at the Washington Home and Garden Show

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Gravel 101: A New Kind of School Garden

WASHINGTON, June 20, 2012/PRNewswire/ — A local school’s gravel garden teaches children about the science of growing food without soil or fertilizer while inspiring lessons about nutrition and sustainability. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120620/PH27666-a ) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120620/PH27666-b ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120307/MM65492LOGO-a ) In just four short months, pre-primary students at Lowell School in Washington, DC harvested lettuce five times from the School’s gravel garden, which was planted …