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How to grow garlic

Gardening Diversity in Our Lives and Our Communities

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…

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,…

If You Guild It, They Will Come: How to Grow a Permaculture Food Forest

Growing Food and Medicine: The Good, The Bad and The Heartbreak

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…

Permaculture: the outer and the inner landscape
