Gardening

How to ripen tomatoes

How to ripen tomatoes even when you live somewhere with a short growing season.

Top Ten Tips for Gardening on a Budget

Don't have much money? Gardening on a budget is possible to do. Here's how.

Waste Not Want Not: Twelve Rs of Recycling

Here are Twelve Rs of recycling to help guide you on your way to cutting down on waste. It may seem a simple goal, but it can be eye opening, and have surprising repercussions in all aspects of your life.

Strategies for urban land access

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

On urban permaculture, eco-activism and co-creation of space with non-human animals — a conversation with Becky Ellis

Urban permaculture is possible even without owning private property or large amounts of land.

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…

Send a Care Bear Stare: Progressives & Permaculture in the Rural Heartland

Finding permaculture in America.

Design anything with the GOBRADIME permaculture design process

An easy, circular permaculture design process for gardens, community projects,…

Bringing Nature Inside

Some ideas for improving access to nature connection if you, or someone you are close to, has an illness or disability meaning they find it difficult to be outdoors and need to bring nature inside.

International Permaculture Creating Local Food Justice

Local food justice in the heart of a food desert

Beauty Tips for Women Who Garden

What is beauty? Here are some beauty tips for gardeners.

Worm Composting for Beginners

A beginner’s guide to worm composting

Let’s Talk People Care: Decolonizing Permaculture

Decolonizing permaculture through people care and examining relationships.

The Power of Collaboration: Why I chose to teach in the Women’s Online Permaculture Design Course

Learn about the collaborative women’s online permaculture design course

Self-Seeding Plants in the Garden Farm

Surprise yourself in the garden with self-seeding plants.

Healing Racial Injustices Using Restorative Practices: An Oral History by Morris Ervin

Ideas for healing racial injustices

urban sustainability: creating a regenerative city

Urban sustainability and the possibilities of urban permaculture

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.

Eat With The Seasons: basics of food preservation

Harvest time blesses with abundance, a good time to know the basics of food preservation.

Transition Economics: Principles of Financial Permaculture

Financial permaculture in action

Perennial Tomatoes in the Frozen North

Experimenting in over-wintering annuals for resilience and food security (and perennial tomatoes!)

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.

Howling at the Moon: Communication and Connection for Healing the Pack

Howling at the moon is an analogy for describing clear and heart-centered communication established with yourself first and then extended to another.

Herbal Elixirs and Infusions

Need any recipes for medicinal herbs? Herbal elixirs involve steeping medicinal herbs in honey or, maple syrup, sometimes combining them with brandy or other alcohol, or fermenting them, such as medicinal meads.