Permaculture Garden Ideas

Can I Grow This Here? Plant Selection Basics

A guide to plant selection for a perennial polyculture garden.

How to Make Your Garden More Accessible

A straightforward way to think through accessibility in your garden and plan improvements.

Teachings of the Thistle

An exploration of an alternative view on a common perennial weed: approaching with curiosity, gratitude and a sense of reciprocity.

Regenerating Our Reality through Circular Economy

Circular economy is not just a big concept for governments and economists, but something real that we can immediately put into practice as individuals.

Marina Nobre: Reforestation is more than planting trees.

The seed knows what it does and how it does it.

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.

Northern Bayberry for Permaculture Income

Permaculture For Renters

If you live in the city, that doesn’t mean you can’t grow your own fruits and veggies! By using a few simple strategies, you can enjoy fresh homegrown fruits and veggies, year round.

Permaculture in the City: a sampler of inspiring urban agriculture projects

10 urban gardens that will inspire you to grow food no matter where you live

Empathy For a Houseplant

The plant sat in the clearance section of a grocery store for a few dollars looking thirsty and in need of rescue

Botany for Everyone

Aside from the bean growing experiments in primary school and the occasional plant part identification ditto sheet, many of us have not had any formal botanical education in botany.

Seed Saving: If not us, who?

What does the 2008 crisis, illegal drug cartels, your mental health and seed saving have in common? A lot more than you’d think.

Tales from the Underground: types of root vegetables to grow

How many types of root vegetables do you grow?

How to grow garlic

tips and tricks for growing gorgeous organic garlic

How to build organic garden soil

Learn from my example how to build organic garden soil.

Growing vegetables from Seed

5 tips for growing vegetables from seed successfully

Benefits of Prunella Vulgaris: Self heal, the wonder weed

Learn the benefits of Prunella Vulgaris. Self heal, heal-all, woundwort, heart-of-the-earth, carpenter’s herb, brownwort and blue curls are just some of the names this flower go by.