Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I want to show you how to ‘produce’ free mulch to improve the fertility of your garden or food forest, from the stuff already on your site, as a byproduct of things that you would be doing anyway. WITHOUT having to deal with dishonest landscape material suppliers or conventional farmers wanting to sell you […]
How to improve the soil quality for your food forest plants
Reading Time: 5 minutesAlmost daily, I get panicky questions from people starting their food forest from scratch and having a blank slate. It’s the analysis paralysis from the information overload that makes people do nothing instead of taking this simple but essential step in the food forest’s establishment. If you do this step, and do it correctly, your […]
The simplest way to grow thousands of plants
Reading Time: 5 minutesSuppose you want to plant a permaculture fruit orchard here: Let’s do the math and see how much this would cost… Area = 4 acres (1.5 hectares) Plant the trees an average of 6 meters (20 ft) apart and space the rows generously 10 m (30 ft) apart. When you run the numbers, it comes […]
How to Create an Endless Supply of Free “Woodchips”
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn this post, I’ll outline a cost-effective and sustainable method of obtaining woody mulch for your food forest. For this ‘workflow’ to work, you need to have a source of woody material on your land. This can be a forest or other (unwanted) woody vegetation growing on your property that you can then selectively clear […]
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