Reading Time: 3 minutesAs someone who is constantly juggling various personal, professional, and homestead tasks, there’s one permaculture principle that’s proven to be incredibly important in my day-to-day life. It’s the principle of ‘the least effort for the most effect.’ Essentially it’s this idea that you want to work in a way where you get great results for […]
Never buy mulch again: my simple method to produce free mulch forever
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 […]
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 […]