Reading Time: 4 minutesAny of these sound familiar? “We essentially have a blank canvas that we want to optimize, to the best of our abilities, as this is our forever home.” “I need a good, broad-stroke food plan for what is now a blank slate.” “I have a lot of ideas of what I would like to do […]
Food forest cover crop update
Reading Time: 3 minutesSomewhere up the family tree, my forebears must have offended a hag coven or something… Behold our ancestral curse: The limestone bedrock. My land is in the mountainous part of Croatia, a region characterized by this particularly challenging landscape feature that has determined the destinies of many generations of farmers before me. On the one […]
How to design a Food Forest in 20 minutes
Reading Time: 9 minutesTall order? Read on and watch me *demo* it. Earlier this week, I showed you what designing the whole farm layout looks like, and now I’ll zoom in on one aspect: designing a food forest with swales. 5 minutes for Part I, 15 minutes for Part II, and DONE! Food forests, in the context of […]
Water Management For Every Permaculture Property
Reading Time: 20 minutesWhen 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 […]