What to Plant In a Plum Tree Guild [Examples, Flowers, and Herbs!]
To make the most of a plum tree guild, it is always important to place it in the right spot and select the best companion plants to help your plum …
Permaculture and Self Sufficiency
10 Essential Things for Any Backyard Permaculture Garden
The perfect permaculture garden is a garden that cares for people and our planet. It is a resilient space that helps you live sustainably and take only your fair share …
How to Create the Perfect Fruit Tree Guild Layout for Permaculture
Fruit tree guilds are a fabulous feature of many permaculture gardens. These guilds are essentially collections of plants that work together to improve the health and productivity of the tree …
5 Must-Grow Vegetables for Warm Climate Self-Sufficient Gardens
You can grow a lot of basic food crops like wheat and sugar yourself, even though not many people grow them in their own gardens. You might be used to …
9 Best Self Sufficient Living Books for Homesteaders and Pioneers
In the Oxford dictionary, the definition of the word “self sufficient” is simple. If you are self-sufficient, then you need no outside help in satisfying your own needs, especially when …
Food Forest Introduction – The Seven Layers of the Forest Garden
In this series of articles, I will walk you through the seven layers of the forest garden or backyard food forest, explaining the purpose and function of each one and some of the …
Layers of a Permaculture Food Forest Part 5: Climbing Plants
There’s a bit of an odd-one-out among the seven layers of the permaculture food forest garden – a group that doesn’t fit into any one particular compartment of the garden …
Layers of a Permaculture Food Forest Part 4: Understory and Canopy Trees
In our exploration of temperate food forest layers, we’ve been taking a closer look at each of the 7 layers; what we can plant there and how to design each …
Layers of a Food Forest: Permaculture Shrubs [Part 3]
So far, in our exploration of the different layers of the permaculture food forest garden, we have covered the underground and herbaceous layers that comprise the smaller plants of the …
The Groundcover and Herbaceous Layers of a Permaculture Food Forest
What makes a food forest garden different from an orchard? One of the distinctions lies in what’s growing on the ground… In conventional orchards, the ground is either mown, grazed, …
The Root Layer of a Food Forest (Layer 1 of the 7 Layers)
One of the defining features of forest gardens and food forests is how they utilize space to maximum efficiency by growing crops in several “layers” – just as you’d see …
The Healing Power of Nature Therapy and How to Get Started Today
We all know the delight of stepping out into the wild when we feel stuck inside. A breath of fresh air, a breeze of sanity, a beam of light, the …
5 Simple Ways to Start Living a Permaculture Lifestyle
Most people are familiar with permaculture as a style of gardening, but permaculture can extend far beyond the garden and grow into a lifestyle focused on sustainable solutions. So, how …
How to Live a Productive and Sustainable Permaculture Lifestyle
By applying the 12 principles of permaculture to our lives, we can increase productivity, cut down on waste, and boost the health of our own, personal ecosystem. Permaculture is just …
Meditative Foraging Offers So Much More Than a Basket of Food
When we take a wander through the wild world, few of us seem to realize the treasure trove we are stumbling through. Almost as if in a sleepwalk, our conditioning …