Heather Jo Flores

Permaculture For Renters

If you live in the city, that doesn’t mean you can’t grow your own fruits and veggies! By using a few simple strategies, you can enjoy fresh homegrown fruits and veggies, year round.

Permaculture in the City: a sampler of inspiring urban agriculture projects

10 urban gardens that will inspire you to grow food no matter where you live

Demystifying The Permaculture Base Map

One of the most common sticking points for permaculture students is the base map, so let's take care of that right now!

Tales from the Underground: types of root vegetables to grow

How many types of root vegetables do you grow?

5 Reasons You Should Take this Online Permaculture Design Course

Best online permaculture course for women and by women

How to grow garlic

tips and tricks for growing gorgeous organic garlic

How to make Sauerkraut: the Gateway to Home Ferments

All you need is cabbage, salt, and to remember a few important details

To Bamboo or Not to Bamboo, and is there such a thing as non-spreading bamboo?

By Heather Jo Flores I recently received an interesting question from a reader,and it seemed like a great topic for this month’s column. She writes:“I…

How to Learn Permaculture for Free

a handy guide by Heather Jo Flores, author of Food Not Lawns, director of the Permaculture Women’s Guild, and creator of the #freepermaculture project By…

Ten Medicinal Flowers that I always plant in every garden

By Heather Jo Flores I am primarily a food gardener, but there are a handful of flowering medicinal plants that I always include in my…

12 Plants to Grow When Gardening with Children

By Heather Jo Flores By no means an exhaustive selection of great plants for gardening with children, the following twelve plants can all be direct-sown,…

What is permaculture, and what is not permaculture?

First of all, permaculture isn’t a gardening technique. It’s a design system. That system can and should include plants and other living beings but no garden, by itself, can be a permaculture design unless it connects to the rest of the system (water, energy, waste, built environment, etc.)

Front Yard Gardens: Rules for Growing Food Out Front

So you want to turn your lawn into a front yard garden? Here’s how to stay friends with the neighbors.

10 Benefits of having a greenhouse

they’re easier to build than you might think By Heather Jo Flores Ten reasons to build a greenhouse: Start seeds early (and late!) Many seeds need…

What do weeds indicate about your soil?

By Heather Jo Flores What Weeds Indicate About the Condition of Your Soil “Weeds are weeds only from our human egotistical point of view, because they…

Gaining Ground: 8 places to grow food if you don’t have access to land

For people who have their own yard, starting a garden is easy. But for those who don’t have easy access to land, starting a garden takes a little more effort.

How to grow tomatoes in a temperate climate

By Heather Jo Flores Tips for cloudy skies tomato gardeners In a foggy, temperate climate, most of us know the drill: Start seeds indoors in…

How to grow melons: tips and tricks

By Heather Jo Flores a little ingenuity goes a long way If you’re a gardener and you feel like melons are easy to grow, please, message…

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,…