Permaculture Garden Ideas • Permaculture Womens Guild

Teachings of the Thistle

An exploration of an alternative view on a common perennial weed: approaching with curiosity, gratitude and a sense of reciprocity.

Regenerating Our Reality through Circular Economy

Circular economy is not just a big concept for governments and economists, but something real that we can immediately put into practice as individuals.

Marina Nobre: Reforestation is more than planting trees.

The seed knows what it does and how it does it.

Opening a heartfelt dialogue with life - A film review of Into The Soil

A timely film about how we share food, care for our land and value the lives of everyone around us.

Northern Bayberry for Permaculture Income

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

Empathy For a Houseplant

The plant sat in the clearance section of a grocery store for a few dollars looking thirsty and in need of rescue

Botany for Everyone

Aside from the bean growing experiments in primary school and the occasional plant part identification ditto sheet, many of us have not had any formal botanical education in botany.

Seed Saving: If not us, who?

What does the 2008 crisis, illegal drug cartels, your mental health and seed saving have in common? A lot more than you’d think.

Tales from the Underground: types of root vegetables to grow

How many types of root vegetables do you grow?

How to grow garlic

tips and tricks for growing gorgeous organic garlic

How to build organic garden soil

Learn from my example how to build organic garden soil.

Growing vegetables from Seed

5 tips for growing vegetables from seed successfully

Benefits of Prunella Vulgaris: Self heal, the wonder weed

Learn the benefits of Prunella Vulgaris. Self heal, heal-all, woundwort, heart-of-the-earth, carpenter’s herb, brownwort and blue curls are just some of the names this flower go by.

The life of a stinging nettle in a permaculture garden

Stinging nettle plays an important part in permaculture.

16 Best Edible Perennials to Plant Now

Sure wins & long shot edible perennials for aspiring “lazy gardeners”

In-Situ Composting in Your Garden

In-Situ composting. Why you need it & how to do it right.

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Big yields From a Small Garden: Growing Food in Small Spaces

There are plenty of good reasons to develop a skill set for growing food in small spaces. By Heather Jo Flores There are plenty of good…

Marigolds as a Companion Plant

Why you should be growing marigolds in your permaculture garden By Heather Jo Flores What do you think of when you hear the word marigold?…

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,…