Food Forestry – School of Permaculture

Students take Permaculture Design Course…

By nicholas
January 7, 2021
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We love hearing testimonies and getting updates from our students. From those who plant their first gardens to those who completely rock the homesteading. And this couple did just that. In 2016 they took our in-person PDC course and used their property (10 acres), which they purchased a few years prior, to design their final […]

THINGS CHANGE & Three and a Half Tips for Your Food Forest

By nicholas
November 5, 2018
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Learn some digestible bits about trees and weather and get a few tips on how to build your food forest.

Tour suburban permaculture site two months into spring…

By nicholas
June 1, 2018
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The video and post prior to this one shows what our suburban permaculture demonstration site looked like the day before spring. This video takes the same tour of our suburban site that we did the day before spring but about two months later. Take a look at the explosive growth in just two months. Spring […]

KEYHOLES KNIVES WORM EATING AND THE HOMELESS

By nicholas
July 7, 2017
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Keyhole gardens are vastly underestimated of how distracting they are. Robin Jones brings it, like really. You want working knives? Help the poor. Take a peek inside what it really takes to run, not one, but two demonstration sites, operate a school of permaculture, manage an amazing team of instructors and consultants, while being a […]

Permaculture in an Apartment Complex Two Years Later…

By nicholas
June 17, 2017
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A quick update of some work we installed at an apartment complex that specifically asked for a permaculture design. More updates to come.

Kelley Joy Tours our Permaculture Suburban Site

By nicholas
May 23, 2017
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Kelly Joy from Coffee with Kelly Joy (check out her facebook page) came over a few days ago and facebook lived a video tour of the front and back yard food forest gardens here at our suburban site of the School of Permaculture. Because permaculture is so scalable and sometimes thought of for only large […]

Growing Your Own Pesticides…

By nicholas
May 17, 2017
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Ron Finley said, “Growing your own food is like printing your own money”. I could not agree more. And you wouldn’t just set fire to the bank that holds your money would you? That is pretty much what we do when we spracy chemicals such as pesticides and herbicides. In this video I show you […]

13 Essentials For Growing Your Own Food!

By nicholas
May 17, 2017
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So you have finally realized you are sick of being sick and tired and want to be happier and healthier? Good for you. Now that you are ready to get real about your well being and grow your own food, there are some criteria to meet to make your life a lot easier. I have […]

Traditional Landscape Design VS Permaculture Landscape Design

By nicholas
December 5, 2016
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Video at bottom of article A young family wants to make a change and asked two different landscape design teams to design their landscape for healthy fruits and vegetables, nuts and eggs. The two companies create designs and got back with the couple. The video shows the results and below you can easily see the […]

Working With Microclimates

By nicholas
September 27, 2016
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Microclimate can be both easy to understand and at the same time hard to understand. Nicholas shows us two different microclimates in this video that offer two different growing requirements for the vegetation that may grow there. Looking forward to making more videos that highlight unique microclimates that can literally found everywhere there is any […]

Category: Food Forestry