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Abundance Mindset, Scarcity Mindset

Are you able to approach life with an abundance mindset?

26 Natural remedies for coronavirus (and how to grow these herbs)

Some helpful natural remedies for coronavirus

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

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…

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

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

Some hard truths about growing food and medicine.

Dry stone walls are a significant part of the landscape in many parts of the world. They are built in places where there are plenty of stones nearby, and where trees don’t thrive well enough to create hedges or to provide materials for fencing.

Planting Trees to Feed Future Generations

Permaculture approaches to feeding the world in a changing climate, 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

How to create accurate base maps.

What’s so permanent about permaculture?

Permanent permaculture, is it possible?

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

What is Rewilding? Is rewilding a way of off-setting normal life?

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.

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…