Reading Time: 4 minutes 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 plant trees and shrubs, the Permaculture Apprentice way
Reading Time: 6 minutes There is one thing that always makes my head nod with approval like this guy… It’s when I see an older person planting trees that he or she almost certainly won’t live to see mature and produce in their full glory. For example, they may be planting chestnuts or walnuts and other long-growing trees and […]
How to Use Native Fungi to Improve Soil Quality and Bulletproof Your Food Forest Against Disease
Reading Time: 24 minutes Think about the last time you were walking in an old growth forest. Remember that smell of the fresh forest air, the calming sound of birds, the serene backdrop of leaves gently swaying on the wind and the sun’s rays peeking through the lush canopy? Remember how with each step you took you could feel […]
Creating a Food Forest – Step by Step Guide
Reading Time: 16 minutes 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 […]
Everything You Need to Know About Growing Trees From Seeds
Reading Time: 16 minutes When I grow old I want to spend my days walking through acre upon acre of fully-established, mature food forest, picking fruit from trees I planted 40 years ago, watching branches slowly swaying in the gentle breeze and listening to birdsong. For my dream to become a reality, I will need huge amounts of trees […]
Here is How You Make a Living From a 4 acre Permaculture Orchard
Reading Time: 12 minutes What if I told you that it is possible to make a living from a 4-acre orchard and you can even do this with less work, more yield and more fun. What if I told you that the secret to doing this is already known, but the information about how to go about it has […]
How to Start a Small Permaculture Nursery and Grow 1000s of Trees by Yourself
Reading Time: 11 minutes Recently I attended a farm forestry course with David Holmgren and Darren J. Doherty, a subject I’d like to address today. To even start a farm forestry operation, or even a permaculture orchard, you’ll need to source a huge number of trees from somewhere. I crunched a few numbers and browsed the relevant websites: it […]