Permaculture Garden Ideas - Permaculture Womens Guild

Bring us a Shrubbery! Best plants for edible hedges

A baker’s dozen of easy to grow and disease-resistant perennial hedge plants. By Heather Jo Flores No garden is complete without a yummy patch of edible,…

How to Prune Fruit Trees

By Heather Jo Flores Most basic pruning, especially on young trees that haven’t been previously damaged or badly pruned, can be done by anyone with…

Mulch Much? The Benefits of Mulching

By Heather Jo Flores It’s always a good day for mulching your garden! Mulch builds humus. The word “human” comes from the same roots as humus,…

Plant a Living Playhouse with Sunflowers

By Heather Jo Flores Grow a place for the kids to play! It’s the middle of May and time to plant sunflowers! There are many beautiful…

A scrap of comfrey, the permaculture plant

An ode to comfrey THE permaculture plant.

Lasagna Gardening 101

What is Lasagna Gardening? How to build a “lazy garden” in 3 easy steps.

Food forest starter kit: essential tools for a permaculture garden

You need to have the right tool for the job. So what tools are needed for a permaculture garden?

Eat the Weeds! Edible weeds you’re probably already growing

12 Delicious and Nutritious Edible Weeds and How to Include Them in Your Diet

Happy Trails: organic slug and snail control

How to get rid of snails and slugs without using poison

Cold hardy figs and why you should grow them

Delicious, drought-tolerant, easy to grow…what’s not to love? by Heather Jo Flores I can’t stop eating them. There’s a fig tree at the place where I…

What I learned from keeping chickens

There's life wisdom to absorb from keeping chickens.

Reasons to Grow Calendula

If you’re brainstorming the coming season’s garden and are looking for a low-maintenance, multi-use, beautiful, and long-blooming flower, look no further, grow calendula!

How to grow a pollinator garden

Need to attract a more diverse group of insects and pollinators? Here's how to grow a pollinator garden.

Seed saving for beginners

Whether you are an old expert at seed stewardship or a new gardener with a budding curiosity, saving seeds from your home garden to grow…

Decolonizing seeds and the feminine side of things — a conversation with Rowen White

Decolonizing seeds and protecting diversity in the seed sovereignty movement.

How to ripen tomatoes

How to ripen tomatoes even when you live somewhere with a short growing season.

Top Ten Tips for Gardening on a Budget

Don't have much money? Gardening on a budget is possible to do. Here's how.

Strategies for urban land access

Urban land access can be difficult but there are ways to get past this barrier.

Worm Composting for Beginners

A beginner’s guide to worm composting

Self-Seeding Plants in the Garden Farm

Surprise yourself in the garden with self-seeding plants.

Perennial Tomatoes in the Frozen North

Experimenting in over-wintering annuals for resilience and food security (and perennial tomatoes!)

Peas, Poppies, Potatoes: What to plant in February

It’s February again, and time to start planting. by Heather Jo Flores Growing a garden is one of the best ways to get exercise, spend…

Food Not Lawns! How and Why to Turn Your Yard into a Garden

By Heather Jo Flores and your neighbor’s front yard…and the local park…and…and… Lawns use more equipment, labor, fuel, and agricultural toxins than industrial farming, making…

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