Vegetables · Permaculture Women Magazine

vegetables

Perennial vegetables in a food forest integrated with annual crops. Photo by Heather Jo Flores

100+ Perennial Vegetables for Your Permaculture Food Forest

A beginner-friendly guide to turning your annual garden into a food forest, with a list of over 100 edible perennial vegetables for a variety of climates.

A Design Cycle Application: GOBRADIMET

Sample design description and activity worksheet for GOBRADIMET.

Tales from the Underground: types of root vegetables to grow

How many types of root vegetables do you grow?

Musings on pandemics, food sovereignty and everyday life

What are the real costs of our current food system? How do we find food sovereignty?

How to make Sauerkraut: the Gateway to Home Ferments

All you need is cabbage, salt, and to remember a few important details

Growing vegetables from Seed

5 tips for growing vegetables from seed successfully

Gardening Diversity in Our Lives and Our Communities

Gardening diversity is essential for balance and harmony, as is diversity in our lives.

In-Situ Composting in Your Garden

In-Situ composting. Why you need it & how to do it right.

What do weeds indicate about your soil?

By Heather Jo Flores What Weeds Indicate About the Condition…

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 melons: tips and tricks

By Heather Jo Flores a little ingenuity goes a long way…

Big yields From a Small Garden: Growing Food in Small Spaces

There are plenty of good reasons to develop a skill…

Marigolds as a Companion Plant

Why you should be growing marigolds in your permaculture garden…

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…

Lasagna Gardening 101

What is Lasagna Gardening? How to build a “lazy garden” in 3 easy steps.

Food forest starter kit: essential tools for a permaculture garden

You need to have the right tool for the job. So what tools are needed for a permaculture garden?

Happy Trails: organic slug and snail control

How to get rid of snails and slugs without using poison

Seed saving for beginners

Whether you are an old expert at seed stewardship or…

Fertile Resistance and Reconciliation; An Indigenous Woman’s Response to the Recent Global Corporate Seed Mergers

The global seed commons and corporate seed mergers

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.

Design anything with the GOBRADIME permaculture design process

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

Self-Seeding Plants in the Garden Farm

Surprise yourself in the garden with self-seeding plants.

Eat With The Seasons: basics of food preservation

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

Homemade Cleaning Products

Create your own homemade cleaning products.

For the Love of Fermentation: basics of fermentation

Here's some recipes to help you get started with the basics of fermentation.