A veggie washing station will definitely make harvest season a whole lot easier. If you’re growing vegetables in your backyard, harvest season is always an exciting time. You’re literally seeing the fruits of your labor. The harvest in itself isn’t easy. Depending on the type of vegetable and ho ...

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There is nothing like a hot cup of tea to cure what ails you! Herb gardens are an incredible resource for making herbal tea and medicines at home. Buying bulk herbs can be quite expensive, whereas garden plants and seeds are a one time purchase that will keep producing for years to come.

Find out how to grow zucchini for a prolific harvest. Learn how to grow it vertically, in pots, and how to avoid pests. Then enjoy it all summer long.

Plant guilds are an important aspect of permaculture design. Food forest garden design examples, plant guild examples & the 7 layer food forest

Suitable for any year, and any season, this gorgeous 20 x 20" seasonal foraging poster serves as a handy reference of common wild plants to forage throughout the year. Beautifully illustrated plant allies encircle plant names (and parts!) that can be harvested in each corresponding season. Each seasonal quadrant also includes additional information about corresponding seasonal energetics, including the three doshas of Ayurveda and the Five Elements of Chinese medicine, as well as the equinox…

With a little nurturing, you can grow cherry trees with ease.

Fruit trees are an integral part of edible landscaping. They offer shade, fruit, seasonal interest, structure to your garden design, and so much more. One simple way we can support the fruit trees in your edible garden is through planting fruit tree guilds. Fruit tree guilds are one of the countless permaculture design techniques that can be applied to your home garden.What are fruit tree guilds? They are human-made communities of plants that are located beneath and surrounding fruit trees…

In one of our recent articles I wrote about companion planting and the specific plants my husband and I have grown successfully together -or not- when growing our seasonal food crops. This time I’d like to write about the function and use of plants grown in polyculture and how each plant species has inherent characteristics that benefit an entire plant community or plant guild (polyculture is growing many different types of plants together -as compared to monoculture). SYNERGY Similar to…

Plant beets with success (thin your beet seedlings!). Grow beet types such as chioggia, golden, cylindra, or even white beets. Best beets for greens

In the macro, gardening is reactive. Perhaps the genesis, in USA, is the bit of landscaping installed at new homes. A lawn, and bushes, with a tree. Lots of lawn to cut, bushes chosen typically grow 2 stories tall yet are sited at the home's foundation, serious pruning needed yearly once grown, and hopefully the tree wasn't sited where it will crack the drive or walkway. . Reactive landscapes. . Studying historic landscape across Europe for decades it only took the 1st tour to understand how…

Photo: Panorama (Courtesy of hardworkinghippy) In the scheme of permaculture food production, harnessing the most out of nature whilst using its own attributes, creating plant guilds ranks pretty high

In the macro, gardening is reactive. Perhaps the genesis, in USA, is the bit of landscaping installed at new homes. A lawn, and bushes, with a tree. Lots of lawn to cut, bushes chosen typically grow 2 stories tall yet are sited at the home's foundation, serious pruning needed yearly once grown, and hopefully the tree wasn't sited where it will crack the drive or walkway. . Reactive landscapes. . Studying historic landscape across Europe for decades it only took the 1st tour to understand how…

In the macro, gardening is reactive. Perhaps the genesis, in USA, is the bit of landscaping installed at new homes. A lawn, and bushes, with a tree. Lots of lawn to cut, bushes chosen typically grow 2 stories tall yet are sited at the home's foundation, serious pruning needed yearly once grown, and hopefully the tree wasn't sited where it will crack the drive or walkway. . Reactive landscapes. . Studying historic landscape across Europe for decades it only took the 1st tour to understand how…