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What do lizards, procrastination, and Permaculture principles have to do with your brain? Part 2
This is Part 2 of a series about the “lizard brain” – made up of the oldest parts of the…
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12-Plus Methods for Keeping Challenging Weeds and Pests Out of the Garden
With organic gardening, especially at the outset, comes a few new challenges for transitioning growers. Pesticides and other chemicals…
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What do lizards, procrastination, and Permaculture principles have to do with your brain? Part 1
Did you know there’s a lizard in your brain that’s the source of all your resistance to difficult, boring,…
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Weeds Aren’t Actually All That Bad
Weeds, many say, are but misunderstood plants, plants that have somehow fallen out of favor. Often, they are ready growers,…
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How to Start an Urban Farm
Like any new venture, starting an urban farm is a daunting and difficult task. Not only do you have to…
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Unwanted Chemical Pool Gets Permaculture Makeover
Six months into our pool to pond conversion and the problem really has become the solution. For some time, we…
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How to Make Instant Garden Beds
A common problem when just starting a garden is dealing with the fact that we’ve not had time to condition…
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How To Motivate Kids To Learn About Permaculture
When my kids were toddlers, they wanted to help me in the garden every spring. They were more than happy…
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Different Methods for Propagating Fruit Trees from Cuttings, Etc.
While saving seeds is a great practice and every budding grower should be starting a personal seed bank, certain plants…
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Fixes for Nutrient Deficient Soil
Basic understanding of plant health comes from the soil they grow in. Their nutrition is vital to their health and…
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Real food does not come from supermarkets: 6 steps from bare ground to homegrown cauliflowers
I imagine that when our grandchildren and great grandchildren read in history books about the supermarkets we relied upon for…
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Straw Bale Gardens
What do straw, paint brushes and the human blood circularity system have in common? The answer is capillaries, very narrow,…
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