February 12, 2023
11:00 am Pacific Standard Time, 2:00 pm Eastern
Monthly ZOOM call will feature William DeMille, of Wells, Nevada, on Landrace gardening, year round Wallipini gardening, and Soil health.
William DeMille is a lifelong vegetable farmer. He studied 2 years of Horticulture and Agronomy at Northwest Missouri University, Maryville. He holds two certificates in aquaponic engineering and production from Cornell University, NY, and from GrowHaus Aquaponics CO, and also graduated from Dr. Elaine’s Soil Food Web School and Healing Mountain Massage School. William is a farm consultant helping establish various agricultural startups since 2005 in Missouri, Oregon, Colorado, Utah and Nevada. He specializes in the education of food production and soil health. William is the Director of Georgic Development for Monticello College, Ut. He manages 2500 acres of grassland for the Ruby Mountain Foods Company where the highest quality grass finished beef is raised. During the shutdowns of covid 19 he built a solar greenhouse that he now manages and it feeds 20 people approximately 80% of their food. He is developing new vegetable varieties and breeding them for the high elevations of the intermountain west. In 2021 he started his own grass roots school at his home in Clover Valley Nevada teaching soil health and vegetable production which trains people how to grow food without fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides etc… It includes a 3 day Boot Camp class for all ages. For college aged students he teaches an advanced 17 week class each summer to train new farmers in vegetable production. William owns and operates a soil testing laboratory and has a YouTube channel about farming. He is growing his Patreon channel helping people grow food, and holds a weekly free online Q&A on Thursday evenings. William lives with his wife Vernie Lynn DeMille in the snow capped mountains of Northern Nevada. They homeschooled their 4 children, have one grandchild, and they are both Massage Therapists. William loves family, art, gardening, teaching, horses, Dutch oven cooking, rodeo, mechanics, ice skating, writing and listening to audio books.
Going to Seed - Landrace Gardening ZOOM call link:
You can learn more about William here:
https://www.georgicrevolution.com/
Joseph Lofthouse and Holly T. Hansen will co-host the call.
Joseph and Holly visited William and his Wallipini February 2nd enjoying sunshine and greens with 3’ of snow on the ground outside. You will be inspired by William’s work come prepared to learn and ask questions.
