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 […]
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 […]
Water Management For Every Permaculture Farm
When I was a kid, my brother and I used to enjoy the winter weather at my grandparents’ farm in the mountains. In a beautiful interplay of natural forces, throughout the winter and early spring we would play in half a meter of snow, walk on frozen lakes and then run from the floodwaters once […]
How to Read the Landscape
Let’s be honest, farming is hard; it’s one of the most difficult careers one can undertake. It’s hard physically, it’s hard mentally, there is a great deal of uncertainty and, if this wasn’t enough, people are constantly judging you and questioning your life choice. So, how can you succeed as a farmer despite these pressures […]