Rain barrels, great idea – not truly practical. Rain barrels have been the rage lately but are they truly enough for your practical garden needs. The answer is no. Here is an alternative that it extremely versatile, won’t break the …
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 …
Learn some digestible bits about trees and weather and get a few tips on how to build your food forest.
Your library is important! FINALLY a decent use for plastic. Honestly it was difficult finding a video out there on the interwebs that was not extremely difficult to figure out or had some interesting complicated fold around the corners. Took …
This question, and mostly in a derogatory sense, has been asked for decades. Maybe the question should be, are you applying yourself? But maybe not. There are 5 things you can do after a permaculture design course. In this video …
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 …
For the last few years we have been getting very bad hail storms during the spring. We ended up totaling out the roof on our suburban site and replacing it with a metal roof. Super excited. Since we have decided …
There is nothing worse then barely being awake and starting to cook your eggs when you suddenly get the whiff of the sulphur river overflowing into your kitchen. Let us/Nicole help you tell if your eggs are good before you …
I love to garden. But I don’t want it to feel like a job! Sweet potatoes are a crop that if not careful will end up taking you many steps to grow. Dig my video on how to grow these …
The only thing better than a thick Texas draw is speaking Australian while Texan. Find out what in the world a hula hoe is, and it’s insanely fast use getting rid of undesirables in the garden.
We have tried all sorts of ways to irrigate these gardens here at our suburban permaculture demonstration site. Actually I am still fiddling with it. But as of right now, we have found a decent, scratch that, very good method …
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 …