

food forests


How to make Sauerkraut: the Gateway to Home Ferments

Buddhist Meditation and Regenerative Culture
By Dido Dunlop Our hearts and outer world grow hearty together To restore Mother Nature, and grow tomatoes in our cities, we must redesign our inner…

It’s not enough to be an environmentalist. We must be anti-racist environmentalists.

Gardening Diversity in Our Lives and Our Communities

Celtic Wisdom and Regenerative Culture — After Corona Virus

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?…

How to make gazpacho from homegrown tomatoes
By HeatherJo Flores Gazpacho is often called a “cold soup” by gringos, but around here, it’s served over ice as an afternoon drink on hot…

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…

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

Top 20+ Best Permaculture Books by Women

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…

Why should farmers get subsidies?

6 Steps to Befriend Your Fears and Get a Life
By Julia Pereira Dias I could start the article by suggesting that the corona virus was designed and spread by the toilet paper industry, but…

Ecofeminism and Permaculture

Avoid These Common Mistakes After Your Permaculture Design Certificate Course…
By Karryn Olson Often, after an in-depth permaculture learning experience, folks emerge with the desire to change their living or working situations so that they…

Lasagna Gardening 101

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

Disaster Preparedness and Resilience Planning

Food forest starter kit: essential tools for a permaculture garden

Human Dormancy

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

Planting Trees to Feed Future Generations

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…

Matavenero
The time I visited the oldest ecocommunity in Spain By Elena Pollen Long before moving to Spain, or, a few months actually, my partner &…

Permaculture Boundaries and Base Maps

A Long Way Home
By Helen iles It’s early morning. The sun is already flooding the woodland scene outside my window, when a robin hops onto the patio table…

What is Rewilding? Here’s another view

Suburban Permaculture

Permaculture Design: Outside the Box…and Into Nature

Strategies for urban land access
