Gardening – 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 […]

WATCH NOW – The Preparedness Garden & Natural Medicine Series

By nicholas
March 22, 2020
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The Preparedness Garden & Natural Medicine Series

How to Live off the Land: A Permaculture Guide

By nicholas
August 27, 2019
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Here we’re sharing a cool resource from our colleagues at Wild Abundance. They run a school for permaculture, homesteading, and natural building in the southern Appalachian mountains, near Asheville, NC. Based on nearly 2 decades of experience living with the land and applying permaculture principles to a variety of sites and situations, they created this for […]

Permaculture Moms in Dallas – Fort Worth

By nicholas
March 6, 2019
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Hello friends of School of Permaculture, We just wanted to reach out and let you know that a new-ish networking group has been forming and we’d love to have you be a part of it. The group is called Permaculture Moms in DFW. And before you click the button to join, please note, we do […]

Introduction to Mandala Gardens

By nicholas
November 29, 2018
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Want a mandala garden but want some inside scoop from someone who has used one and designed and installed a few? Watch this video and glean some beneficial usings and tips at our School of Permaculture’s suburban demonstration site. As always, ask questions if you got them.

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 […]

The day before spring. What did our site look like?

By nicholas
May 30, 2018
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What does a site coming fresh out of winter look like? Better yet what does OUR permaculture site fresh out of winter the day before spring look like? Have a yander at one of our suburban demonstration sites. Follow me on this tour as I show and inspire you on what is possible. Whoodang!!!

Nutrients from Plants for Composting

By nicholas
April 13, 2018
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Nutrients from Plants for Composting Add minerals to your soil by adding these plants to your compost pile Name Binomial Nomenclature Na I Fl B Si S N Mg Ca K P Mn Fe Cu Co Alfalfa Medicago sativa x x Arrowroot x Bladder wrack x x x Borage Borago officinalis x x Bracken, […]

What in the world is an Infinity Garden?

By nicholas
April 10, 2018
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We are at it again. Just wrapped up this springs PERMACULTURE GARDENING class. It was stellar! One of our students is truly living the dream. They sold everything and bought some land, watched youtube videos, and built their house out of shipping containers!. These guys are rock stars! Our gardening class installed a 100×40′ infinity […]

Preventing aggressive grasses like bermuda while growing food.

By nicholas
March 7, 2018
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No one likes grasses in their food plots and gardens. We have had lots of successes and failures with this. Bermuda grass here in the southern USA is one of the toughest grasses known to man and once it infiltrates a garden or food plot it is almost impossible to stop it’s vigor without starting […]

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