Fruit Trees

Abundance Mindset, Scarcity Mindset

Are you able to approach life with an abundance mindset?

10 Benefits of having a greenhouse

they’re easier to build than you might think By Heather Jo…

Gaining Ground: 8 places to grow food if you don’t have access to land

For people who have their own yard, starting a garden is easy. But for those who don’t have easy access to land, starting a garden takes a little more effort.

How to grow tomatoes in a temperate climate

By Heather Jo Flores Tips for cloudy skies tomato gardeners…

Bring us a Shrubbery! Best plants for edible hedges

A baker’s dozen of easy to grow and disease-resistant perennial…

How to Prune Fruit Trees

By Heather Jo Flores Most basic pruning, especially on young…

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

group plants together for specific reasons, encourage them to spread into permanent, self-managing landscapes

Mulch Much? The Benefits of Mulching

By Heather Jo Flores It’s always a good day for…

Avoid These Common Mistakes After Your Permaculture Design Certificate Course…

By Karryn Olson Often, after an in-depth permaculture learning experience,…

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

Some hard truths about growing food and medicine.

Dry stone walls are a significant part of the landscape in many parts of the world. They are built in places where there are plenty of stones nearby, and where trees don’t thrive well enough to create hedges or to provide materials for fencing.

Planting Trees to Feed Future Generations

Permaculture approaches to feeding the world in a changing climate, planting trees to feed future generations.

Cold hardy figs and why you should grow them

Delicious, drought-tolerant, easy to grow…what’s not to love? by Heather Jo…

Permaculture Boundaries and Base Maps

How to create accurate base maps.

What’s so permanent about permaculture?

Permanent permaculture, is it possible?

A Long Way Home

By Helen iles It’s early morning. The sun is already…

What is Rewilding? Here’s another view

What is Rewilding? Is rewilding a way of off-setting normal life?

How to grow a pollinator garden

Need to attract a more diverse group of insects and pollinators? Here's how to grow a pollinator garden.

Thank-you India

A report back from the International Permaculture Conference and Convergence…

Strategies for urban land access

Urban land access can be difficult but there are ways to get past this barrier.

On permaculture, entitlement, and that pesky third ethic: all aboard the elephant in the room

By Heather Jo Flores “Contact with the soil reminds us…

Finding Home

Microclimate, finding home & a sense of place

Earth Based Spirituality and Permaculture — The 5 Elements as a Design Tool

Earth Based Spirituality, using Earth, fire, air, water and spirit to as a tool to design my journey to Andalucía.

Problem is the solution: keeping it simple

We’ve now gone so far beyond what is appropriate for our culture, for our health, and for the planet that it is time to bring technology back to scale. The problem is the solution.