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Plants as friends and family members
Reclaiming our sense of belonging. By Luiza Oliveira Looking at the many roots from my multi-racial family, I realized that most of my family background…

Gardening Diversity in Our Lives and Our Communities

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…

How to grow melons: tips and tricks
By Heather Jo Flores a little ingenuity goes a long way If you’re a gardener and you feel like melons are easy to grow, please, message…

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

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…

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,…

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

Happy Trails: organic slug and snail control

Dry Stone Walls

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

Honoring the Slope of the Land, with Keylines and Contour

Re-thinking the Scale of Permanence

Permaculture sector analysis: identifying risks and designing solutions

Finding Home

Self-Seeding Plants in the Garden Farm

Eat With The Seasons: basics of food preservation

Problem is the solution: keeping it simple
