Tales from the Underground: types of root vegetables to grow
How many types of root vegetables do you grow?
season extension
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Plants as Friends and Family Members
Reclaiming our sense of belonging.
Gardening Diversity in Our Lives and Our Communities
Gardening diversity is essential for balance and harmony, as is diversity in our lives.
10 Benefits of having a greenhouse
they’re easier to build than you might think By Heather Jo…
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…
How to grow melons: tips and tricks
By Heather Jo Flores a little ingenuity goes a long way…
Big yields From a Small Garden: Growing Food in Small Spaces
There are plenty of good reasons to develop a skill…
Bring us a Shrubbery! Best plants for edible hedges
A baker’s dozen of easy to grow and disease-resistant perennial…
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
Growing Food and Medicine: The Good, The Bad and The Heartbreak
Some hard truths about growing food and medicine.
Happy Trails: organic slug and snail control
How to get rid of snails and slugs without using poison
Dry Stone Walls
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.
Cold hardy figs and why you should grow them
Delicious, drought-tolerant, easy to grow…what’s not to love? by Heather Jo…
Permaculture Boundaries and Base Maps
How to create accurate base maps.
Honoring the Slope of the Land, with Keylines and Contour
Learn how to use keylines and contour to work with the slope of the land.
Re-thinking the Scale of Permanence
Adding social layers to the scale of permanence
Permaculture sector analysis: identifying risks and designing solutions
Permaculture sector analysis is about designing the world we want while acknowledging the realities of the world we live in.
Finding Home
Microclimate, finding home & a sense of place
Self-Seeding Plants in the Garden Farm
Surprise yourself in the garden with self-seeding plants.
Eat With The Seasons: basics of food preservation
Harvest time blesses with abundance, a good time to know the basics of food preservation.
Problem is the solution: keeping it simple
We’ve now gone so far beyond what is appropriate for our culture, for our health, and for the planet that it is time to bring technology back to scale. The problem is the solution.
What is the definition of Permaculture?
How would you explain the definition of permaculture?