Bio-accumulation is nature’s way of depleting or strengthening elements through biological processes. For example, when we feed GMO grain to a cow, the toxins from GMO grain, and herbicides used on the grain, will bio-accumulate through the mother cow’s bloodstream and intensify into the mother’s milk. Thus poisoning her calves and us. As tough of an example as […]
Swale defined: A water harvesting ditch on contour. Nicholas Burtner explains in detail, but stays light, on the topic of swales in permaculture. What they are, how to create them, and what they are used for in permaculture and earthworks. As a bonus, at the end of the video there is a collage of different […]
Many people have come to permaculture to gain a better understanding of natural, recycled, and sustainable house design. When building structures with a permaculture viewpoint, the structure will work seamlessly and integrate into the already earth’s natural systems such as solar aspects, prevailing winds, convection, and gravity. It is very beneficial, when building with natural, recycled, or man […]
In permaculture we learn that everything in nature has an order. It was hard for me personally to see this before I took a permaculture design course. I would look at a forest and see nothing but chaos. Leaves and branches every which way made it confusing and very difficult to look at and harder […]
Sometimes when we start planning a food forest we can get caught up with getting things very precise. For example when I first was guided into food forestry I was taught that I “needed” to plant one nitrogen fixing tree for every 3 food bearing trees. After having great mentors and a very solid blocks […]
We can actually benefit the soil by pruning trees. It is not widely known that by pruning a tree at it’s crown or branches that the tree will prune it’s own roots to compensate for the amount of energy no longer needed above the soil. It is important to note that a very healthy soil is […]





