When it comes to growing plants in your food forest you always have two choices: Option 1. Adapt the plants to your site conditions; OR Option 2. Adapt your site conditions to the plants. The option of adapting your site conditions to the plants is definitely one where you’ll need to continuously put extra effort […]
How to prepare for climate extremes – my site observation method
What now seems normal would have been considered highly abnormal just a few years ago. I live in a continental climate with traditionally cold winters, hot summers and plentiful precipitation that’s equally distributed throughout the year. That probably best describes the weather we used to enjoy. But today the winters are not cold, the summers […]
7 Smartphone Apps That’ll Make You A Better Permaculture Farmer and Designer
Can you imagine your life as a permaculture farmer without a chainsaw… electric fence… plastic pipe… battery-powered tools…?Or can you imagine your life without being able to Google something when you have a burning question about your chickens, trees, various plant problems…?Well, it wasn’t all that long ago, and some of you can probably remember […]
Creating a Food Forest – Step by Step Guide
One of my earliest memories of visiting my grandparents’ farm was playing on the dry stone wall, tossing stones around and just generally fooling around. Then, looking down, I came across a small seedling sticking out the side of the wall, growing in nothing, with barely any soil between the stones. Out of childish curiosity […]
