Plant Systems
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Raised Garden Beds in the Bush – Growing Your Own Food in Poor Soil Conditions
“We acknowledge and pay respects to the Dhurga people of the Yuin Nation, the traditional custodians of the Country where we…
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The Best Species for Coppice Forestry
It seems almost miraculous: you cut a tree down to its stump, and a couple years later it has grown…
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Why Your Garden Needs A Herb Spiral Design Solution
What is a herb spiral It is a vertical garden that makes use of limited garden space by horizontally accommodating…
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The Rhizosphere
The rhizosphere is the word used to describe the area of soil surrounding plant roots. It is the most biologically…
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How Plant-based Permaculture Is Possible
I get laughed at a lot. It’s frequent enough that, when I tell people of my intention to build a…
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The Problem with Growing Tomatoes Where I Live
Somewhere in this country people are doing it well, and truth be known, I now work at a conscientious, mindful…
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The Oldest Forest Garden
Small is not just possible, small is inevitable. Creating autonomous control of our economics requires people to be creative –…
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Guilds for the Small Scale Home Garden
Building guilds is a clever way to put gardens together. Instead of toiling over providing this or that nutrient for…
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Intercropping: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and Why We Do It
Get into permaculture and within no time an entire field of jargon is sprouting up around you, and while it…
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How to Harvest Enough Dry Beans and Other Legumes to Feed a Family
I’ve been growing beans now for a while. They are a big part of my diet, and the nitrogen-fixing bacteria…
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My New Take on Self-Sowing Plants for Low Maintenance Gardening
It happened this week, just yesterday actually, I was piddling through some old sheet mulch garden beds I’d made, beds…
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Suzanne Simard: How Trees Talk to Each Other
"A forest is much more than what you see," says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian…
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