Food Not Lawns

A Design Cycle Application: GOBRADIMET

Sample design description and activity worksheet for GOBRADIMET.

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

Celtic Wisdom and Regenerative Culture — After Corona Virus

We can use celtic wisdom and regenerative culture to deepen our connection with the Earth

In-Situ Composting in Your Garden

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

How to Learn Permaculture for Free

A hands-on guide for the frugal beginner to learn permaculture without spending any money.

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.

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…

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

group plants together for specific reasons, encourage them to spread into permanent, self-managing landscapes

Top 20+ Best permaculture books by women

A curated collection of top-notch permaculture books by women you might not have heard about.

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…

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

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

The Unlikely Relationship Between Fear, Cheese, and Permaculture

What happened when I stopped letting fear get in the way of me fulfilling my dreams, or my relationship between fear and cheese.

How To Organize a SkillShare and Shift the Culture of Your Community

In this article I will show you how to transform the way your community learns and cooperates, through learning how to organize a skillshare.

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.

Living on the Edges

One of the many things that I connect with in permaculture, is that ‘edges are where the action is’. I have spent my whole life…

How to combat writer’s anxiety: top tips from permaculture women writers.

Writing makes my stomach hurt. By Laura Bee I love writing. I’ve always wanted to be a writer. And I’m good at it. A few weeks…

Strategies for urban land access

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

On urban permaculture, eco-activism and co-creation of space with non-human animals — a conversation with Becky Ellis

Urban permaculture is possible even without owning private property or large amounts of land.

On permaculture, entitlement, and that pesky third ethic: all aboard the elephant in the room

By Heather Jo Flores “Contact with the soil reminds us that we are an integral part of nature, rather than feeling shut out and excluded.…

Design anything with the GOBRADIME permaculture design process

An easy, circular permaculture design process for gardens, community projects, creative work, and so much more. By Heather Jo Flores (excerpted and fully revised from my…

How to Save Water (and Yourself): ten things you can do

Translation: Essential steps towards the survival of the human species by Heather Jo Flores Here are ten top strategies for saving our water and ourselves. They…

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…