How to Build a Fruit Tree Guild
A guild is a grouping of plants that supports a central element—such as a fruit tree—for maximum harvest and use of space. Learn more about...
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Create a Food Forest for Low-Maintenance, Edible Rewards
A food forest, or edible forest garden, is a food production strategy that mimics a woodland ecosystem. Find out how to create a low-maintenance, perennial,...
Implementing Your Dreams on the Permaculture Homestead
When developing a permaculture homestead, you’ve got a lot of dreams and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Are you wondering where to start? Here’s how...
Growing Beets – A Unique Heirloom Crop
Anyone who enjoys vegetable gardening, growing heirloom vegetables in your home, backyard organic garden provides a great way to grow fresh crops for your everyday...
Creating a Food Forest – Step by Step Guide – Permaculture Apprentice
One of my earliest memories of visiting my grandparents’ farm was playing on the dry stone wall, tossing stones around and just generally fooling around....
How to Plant Efficiently With Permaculture Principles
The term permaculture is being passed around fairly frequently in agricultural circles these days. To make a complex idea quite simple, when it comes to...
Growing Shiitake Mushrooms
We got involved with Shiitake Mushrooms through our Agricultural Cooperative Extension Agency. (This is a great resource for any farmer. Make it a point at...
How To Create A Permaculture Garden That Supports Your Local Ecosystem
There is no set formula for developing this type of permaculture garden design, but there are some permaculture best practices: 1. Copy nature’s blueprint and...
No dig, ditch back-breaking cultivation and grow great vegetables
Origins of no dig cultivation methods are not completely clear, but the benefits of having healthy soil, bountiful crops with minimal work is clear! Managing...
Arid land to a fertile Eden: permaculture lessons from Portugal
The land undulates upwards into gentle hills, cradling nooks of fertile terraces growing sweetcorn, sunflowers and tomatoes, before rolling down into tranquil lakes. It looks...
Vegetables – Grow top-quality carrots
Carrots are important root crops in commercial and home gardens for vegetable production. Here are some pointers for cultivating them. Carrots (Daucus carota) are members...
6 Ways to Increase Food Production in Your Organic Vegetable Garden
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