Gardening – Page 9 – School of Permaculture

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Planning a Food Forest – Part 2

By nicholas
September 17, 2014
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Planning a Food Forest Part 1 found here. Most permaculturist learn very quickly that working with nitrogen fixing legumes and dynamic nutrient accumulators is paramount in planting and grazing systems. We are usually given the major species that work well in most climates and many permaculture courses teach, in great detail, which species grow well […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Ridiculously Fast and Easy Compost Tea

By nicholas
September 10, 2014
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When making soil pro-biotics such as compost tea, it is easy to get bogged down in the “chemistry” of compost tea preparation. Often we learn very precise measurements, time and infiltration for air inoculation, and a host of different ingredients to add. And on a large farm or broad acre site, I will recommend to stick […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Double The Yield

By nicholas
September 9, 2014
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When thinking about the placement of water loving plant species such as water chestnut and blueberries, it is beneficial to home them near the edge of a water feature such as a pond or grey water system. A whole day is usually given to the study of pattern in a permaculture design course. If we take a 1/4 […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – The Need for Case Studies

By nicholas
September 4, 2014
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As I listen to more and more talks on permaculture it becomes clear that case studies are a crucial element to reaching the main stream. Even if it is just logging and documenting a garden on your patio. A case study is not overly involved but is involved. It is about logging events that happen […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – How to Plan and Develop a Permaculture Site

By nicholas
September 2, 2014
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What is often left out in much of permaculture teaching is the “how to install the design”. And not only what that entails, but steps in how to do it. It is most manageable when the design is implemented in stages and each stage should build upon the previous (an the electrical system works better and installs […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Planning a Food Forest Part 1

By nicholas
August 26, 2014
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In permaculture design we utilize a method of design called analysis. When designing a food forest it wise to analyze and think through as much of the succession as possible of your forest (click here to learn the 7 layers of a food forest). A good example of this can be seen by looking to the […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Veggie Tractor

By nicholas
August 25, 2014
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When designing a permaculture system we often make liberal use of animal tractors (a permaculture technique of putting animals into cells for a short period of time to feed, and then moving them to another area. This has a multitude of benefits to the land, animals, humans, and ecosystem). When we design a permaculture system with […]

Moving Past Organic Food into Nutrient Density

By nicholas
August 13, 2014
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Written by Nicholas Burtner, published by permaculturenews.org Many farmers and growers are in massive amounts of debt. Many still want to go organic but the time and red tape needed to do so will deliver them into bankruptcy. I have outlined a few steps a farmer/grower can take to move around the red tape and speed […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Sand as Water Catchment

By nicholas
July 28, 2014
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Permaculture has a principle that states: the problem is the solution. When planting trees in areas where soil is almost all sand (especially in arid climates where evaporation exceeds precipitation and the soil is almost all alkaline) we can use the sand as water storage. Two holes are dug in sequence: -First a hole of 5-10 feet (apprx.) is dug and […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Poison for Dry Lands

By nicholas
July 22, 2014
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In permaculture we learn a truly remarkable arsenal of techniques, strategies, and patterning that is at our disposal for permaculture consulting and design. It would probably lift a few eyebrows if I said that if a farmer truly needed a chemical such as fungicide to save a crop which will provide money and food for his […]

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