Heather Jo Flores

What is a Permaculture Design Certificate and is it worth a big investment? Top 10 PDC FAQ’s

Everything you need to know about choosing a Permaculture Design Certificate program, or not.

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

Demystifying The Permaculture Base Map

One of the most common sticking points for permaculture students is the base map, so let's take care of that right now!

Tales from the Underground: types of root vegetables to grow

How many types of root vegetables do you grow?

5 Reasons You Should Take this Online Permaculture Design Course

Best online permaculture course for women and by women

How to grow garlic

tips and tricks for growing gorgeous organic garlic

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Heather Jo Flores is the founder and director of Permaculture Women's Guild, Food Not Lawns, and the freepermaculture project, and creates about half of the content in our course.

How to make Sauerkraut: the Gateway to Home Ferments

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

To Bamboo or Not to Bamboo, and is there such a thing as non-spreading bamboo?

By Heather Jo Flores I recently received an interesting question…

How to Learn Permaculture for Free

A hands-on guide for the frugal beginner to learn permaculture without spending any money.

Ten Medicinal Flowers that I always plant in every garden

By Heather Jo Flores I am primarily a food gardener,…

12 Plants to Grow When Gardening with Children

By Heather Jo Flores By no means an exhaustive selection…

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What is permaculture? A definitive FAQ for newbie permies in 2023 (with awesome illustrations!)

What is permaculture? Here's an expansive Permaculture FAQ with a collection of helpful links to help you on your permaculture learning journey.

Front Yard Gardens: Rules for Growing Food Out Front

So you want to turn your lawn into a front yard garden? Here’s how to stay friends with the neighbors.

10 Benefits of having a greenhouse

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

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 tomatoes in a temperate climate

By Heather Jo Flores Tips for cloudy skies tomato gardeners…

How to grow melons: tips and tricks

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

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…

Do you want to teach permaculture? Here’s what you need to know.

10 steps to becoming a qualified permaculture teacher, and recommended teacher training programs, from the PWG Faculty.

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

Top 20+ Best Permaculture Books by Women

A curated collection of top-notch permaculture books by women you might not have heard about.

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…

How to make gazpacho from homegrown tomatoes

By HeatherJo Flores Gazpacho is often called a “cold soup”…

Mulch Much? The Benefits of Mulching

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

Plant a Living Playhouse with Sunflowers

By Heather Jo Flores Grow a place for the kids…

Happy Trails: organic slug and snail control

How to get rid of snails and slugs without using poison

Eat the Weeds! Edible weeds you’re probably already growing

12 Delicious and Nutritious Edible Weeds and How to Include Them in Your Diet

Cold hardy figs and why you should grow them

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

Ethical Marketing: Pro-Tips for Your Right Livelihood

Essential tips for online entrepreneurs, especially if you’re relatively new at this and have spent any time at all resisting learning about “marketing” because it’s yucky.`