Food Plants – Perennial
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Useful Plants from Robert Nold’s “High and Dry”
One of the more challenging environments for food production is cold and arid. I’ve been investigating useful perennial plants for…
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The Victorian Stumpery Meets Hugelkultur: Timeless Matchmaking With Permaculture (Panama)
The Inspirational Stumpery by Jane-Ann Liddle I’m crazy about hugelkultur. I love the concept of burying old fallen and felled…
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Grow Food and Soil With A Food Forest
Soil before and after After ten years of learning from and collaborating with a mega-diverse, globally inspired, edible forest garden,…
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Saving Seed on the US/Canadian Border
For the last three years, the best-performing seeds in my garden have come from a little local outfit called Heart…
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Summer Berries in a Humid Cold Temperate Climate (USA)
Berries are quick to bear and just make life better As the perennial vegetable season dries up, berries are coming…
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Jonathan Drori: Every Pollen Grain Has a Story (TED video)
Pollen is the essential link towards abundance. When observed under a microscope, it reveals an exciting diversity and ingenious creativity…
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Growing Cassava in the Perennial Main Crop at Zaytuna Farm
Cassava is a perennial. I have eaten cassava eight years after planting and it was fine, with just a small…
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Reverence for the Bunya Bunya: A Seasonal Retrospective From Melliodora (Australia)
Dedicated to the memory of Peter Brew 1954-2010 Classic bunya bunya canopy profile at the Bunya Mountains National Park Equinox…
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Growing Trees and Reforestation
Acacia tree With Autumn in the Southern hemisphere it is an ideal time to plant trees, as the sap of…
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Bone Sauce: A Tool for Deterring Browsing
Applying the bone sauce Bone sauce is a product of the destructive distillation of bones — a process which separates…
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Plant Cuttings Made Simple
CERES plant propagation brings back some memories. I volunteered for a day when it was first launched. The CERES team…
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Please Help Us Save Heritage Organic Seed Collection From Loss on 6 June 2014
We need your help to save New Zealand’s largest organic heritage or heirloom seed and tree collection by June 6th…
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