Soil

Opening a heartfelt dialogue with life - A film review of Into The Soil

A timely film about how we share food, care for our land and value the lives of everyone around us.

For your inspiration: Sabarmatee

A woman and her father gathered their know-how, investments and time, and turned 90 acres into a lush edible forest. Here’s their story. “Every expert…

The Art Of Dying Creatively

Dying Creatively: Using permaculture design to improve how we die

A Design Cycle Application: GOBRADIMET

Sample design description and activity worksheet for GOBRADIMET.

Tales from the Underground: types of root vegetables to grow

How many types of root vegetables do you grow?

How to build organic garden soil

Learn from my example how to build organic garden soil.

Musings on pandemics, food sovereignty and everyday life

What are the real costs of our current food system? How do we find food sovereignty?

Growing vegetables from Seed

5 tips for growing vegetables from seed successfully

Gardening Diversity in Our Lives and Our Communities

Gardening diversity is essential for balance and harmony, as is diversity in our lives.

The life of a stinging nettle in a permaculture garden

Stinging nettle plays an important part in permaculture.

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.

Cock-a-doodle-doo

after the dark night the rooster announces the light By Ginkgo Biloba I remember well a sunset from more than two years ago. I was…

To Bamboo or Not to Bamboo, and is there such a thing as non-spreading bamboo?

By Heather Jo Flores I recently received an interesting question from a reader,and it seemed like a great topic for this month’s column. She writes:“I…

12 Plants to Grow When Gardening with Children

By Heather Jo Flores By no means an exhaustive selection of great plants for gardening with children, the following twelve plants can all be direct-sown,…

Ten Medicinal Flowers that I always plant in every garden

By Heather Jo Flores I am primarily a food gardener, but there are a handful of flowering medicinal plants that I always include in my…

What is permaculture, and what is not permaculture?

First of all, permaculture isn’t a gardening technique. It’s a design system. That system can and should include plants and other living beings but no garden, by itself, can be a permaculture design unless it connects to the rest of the system (water, energy, waste, built environment, etc.)