Modern gardening often involves weeding, turning the soil, fertilization, and pest control. But permaculture is the practice of growing a garden with the least amount of intervention possible, relying ...

Limestone raised beds and a mandala-designed food forest honor resourceful permaculture tenets. Framed by historic live oak trees in cozy Lockhart, limestone raised beds and a mandala-designed food ...

In this week's video – Part 7 of our series on Creating a Permaculture Paradise and Food Forest – we explore the very first step in starting any permaculture project: observation. Before making any ...

What started as just a few plots in 2009 now takes up an entire city block. Credit: Courtesy El Paseo Community Garden In the permaculture site at El Paseo Community Garden, seven layers of plants ...

If you are looking to harvest more homegrown food in your garden, why not take a note from nature and grow like a forest? In the wild, plants grow in complimentary layers to maximize space and ...

Since prehistoric times humans have obtained food from forests and an effort has taken hold on the Cape to recapture that practice. The Food Forest Initiative is loosely organized but tightly focused ...

In 2015, Ben McConnell planted a forest in his front yard in Bouldin Creek. "It was probably close to 30 different trees that I planted, smaller trees, all sorts of fruit trees." The next year, as the ...

Hi, we’re Magali & Stefan. We live with nature on a Zone 5b–6a piece of land here in Canada, and it’s an honour to care for it. We grow our own food and help restore native biodiversity to the land.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Pupils of St. Dennis Libolina Special Primary Junior school for physically challenged Day ...