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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…

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

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…

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

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,…

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…

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

Dry Stone Walls

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…

Permaculture Boundaries and Base Maps

What’s so permanent about permaculture?

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

How to grow a pollinator garden

Thank-you India
A report back from the International Permaculture Conference and Convergence in Hyderabad, India. By Becky Ellis In November 2017, I had the amazing experience of…

Strategies for urban land access

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.…

Finding Home

Earth Based Spirituality and Permaculture — The 5 Elements as a Design Tool

Problem is the solution: keeping it simple

Principles of Presence:
Applying Permaculture Design and Integral Theory to Personal Development By Jennifer English Morgan The image of a woman wearing a golden straw hat with a…