Plants
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Making My First Mushroom Logs
As forest-lovers who spent a considerable amount of time looking for a property with significant forest on it, an effort…
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Planting In Preparation For Free Range Chickens
The decision to free range your chicken flock is not one to be taken lightly. There are so many positives…
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First Community Food Forest in the City of Melbourne
The Kensington Food Forest began with a dream to provide healthy nutritious organic food for our local Kensington community to…
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8 Abundant “Fodder Forest” plants, and how to use them
This morning when I went to feed the animals I thought I’d start by collecting some pigeon pea for our…
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Planting by Schedule and Plagiarising Instinct
With a recent transition from the wet-dry tropics of Panama to Zone 7b in temperate USA, this year’s planting schedule…
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Five Years From Limestone Slab to Food Forest
Five years ago we moved to our current property in North Texas. While the general area is not particularly challenging,…
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Walking in the Footsteps of Fukuoka with Larry Korn
Following the Natural Farming workshop given by Larry Korn in Chiang Mai, Larry and Roman Eisenkoelbl (who coordinated this programme…
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Herbs of Zaytuna – Sage
So far on our herbal tour of Zaytuna Farm we’ve met Rosemary, Yarrow, Aloe and Mint. These first herbal heroes…
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What is a Food Forest
Forests are ecosystems with a diversity of plants, animals, and fungi. They were designed by nature to have perfect balance.…
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Herbs of Zaytuna – Mint
On our last stops of the herbal tour of Zaytuna Farm we met Rosemary, Yarrowand Aloe. This stop is with the iconic, delicious, aromatic…
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Advice on planning your own forest garden
It always helps to plan a forest garden and you definitely don’t need complicated computer software. Here are some…
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Permaculture Patterning with Animal Systems – Part 2
In part one of ‘Permaculture Patterning with Animal Systems,’ we explored some of the animal systems we are using in…
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