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 […]
Water Management For Every Permaculture Farm
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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 a Little Help From Volunteers Can Kickstart Your Permaculture Project – And Why it’s Maybe Not For You
Reading Time: 7 minutes Note: this is another guest post, this time by one of my readers and a fellow blogger Sandrine Ferwerda. Sandrine and her husband live in rural Spain where they’re starting a permaculture farm from scratch. In this post, you’ll learn how they used volunteers to kickstart their permaculture project and how can you do the same. A […]
Could You Fertilize After a Collapse?
Reading Time: 7 minutes This is another guest post, this time by my good friend David The Good. David is an author and a gardening expert living in the tropics. Here he’ll teach you how to feed your crops and get good yields in case of an emergency. If you can’t fertilize your gardens, your gardens will eventually fail. There’s […]
How to Design Your Perennial Farm and Your Life – Insights from Mark Shepard
Reading Time: 14 minutes It is said that there are a few pivotal moments in your life that will determine its trajectory. Well, I must say I’ve certainly had my share of these on my permaculture journey! The first was when I discovered permaculture through Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton, shortly after I quit my job as a geologist. […]
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 […]
How to Set up a Permaculture Farm in 9 Steps
Reading Time: 11 minutes Now that I have several acres of countryside to steward, I’m feeling somewhat overwhelmed about where to begin. I’ve done my PDC and designed my permaculture farm, but now I have all these pieces that I somehow need to fit together and I need to prioritise my tasks. The problem is that permaculture is a […]
The Definitive Guide to Building Deep Rich Soils by Imitating Nature
Reading Time: 10 minutes Now that I’ve finally got my hands on a piece of land and when I’m finally able to get my hands dirty, I’m faced with the reality of my shallow, compacted, alkaline, and sometimes waterlogged-for-months soils. This has come as a huge disappointment as I had big plans for annual gardens, food forests, and perennial […]