Latest Permaculture Articles
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Growing MethodsBoost Friendly Flora with Companion Planting
Companion planting is defined as the planting of certain crops in close proximity to each other to aid or boost crop yields and productivity. It is a type of polyculture...
By: Russ Landry | President
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Growing Methods
Solutions for a Sustainable Future
As international industry plows forward with an agenda of progress, natural habitats, world cultures and precious resources fall victim to its consumption. In less than...
By: Helene Isbell | Sales Representative
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Growing Methods
Gardening Sustainably: 12 Permaculture Principles
The organic food movement has secured a prime position for itself in American culture, and it continues to gain momentum. Consumers, both domestic and international, are...
By: Helene Isbell | Sales Representative
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Growing Methods
How to Use Permaculture Guilds to Turn Your Garden into a Food Forest
Permaculture utilizes connections between plants, insects, animals, and soil biology to create a thriving ecosystem with minimal input from the gardener. These...
By: Monica Mansfield | Homesteader, Owner & Writer of The Nature Life Project
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Growing Methods
Growing Up Together: The Science Behind Companion Planting
If you ask a group of gardeners what they think about companion planting, you’re bound to get a mixed response. Some swear by the traditional practice and follow...
By: Monica Mansfield | Homesteader, Owner & Writer of The Nature Life Project
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Plant Types
Stronger Together: Cold Weather Companion Planting
Fruits and vegetables contain unique characteristics such as resistance to pests, nutrient sharing, climbing structure, and more. When paired with good neighbors, these...
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Plant Growth
The Soil Food Web: How to Build Healthy Soil
There is soil and then there is dirt. They look alike to the untrained eye, however, there is a huge difference between the two. Dirt is made of silt, sand, and clay. It...
By: Monica Mansfield | Homesteader, Owner & Writer of The Nature Life Project
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Growing Methods
Permaculture: How to Build a Food Forest
Building a food forest begins with looking at how wild woodland ecosystems can be enhanced by careful selection and inter-planting of berry bushes, fruit and nut trees,...
By: Barbara H. Shaw
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Growing Methods
5 Reasons to Start Your Own Bee Colony
Consumers, gardeners, and politicians understand the importance of bees and what it would mean to our world if we lost them. As a result, it is becoming more common to...
By: Monica Mansfield | Homesteader, Owner & Writer of The Nature Life Project
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Growing Methods
Back to Eden: The Fruit is Sweeter When You Break the Rules
Paul Gautschi is a rebel in the garden. He breaks most of the gardening “rules” you’ve ever known, yet he produces lush, abundant harvests that are as...
By: Monica Mansfield | Homesteader, Owner & Writer of The Nature Life Project
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Growing Methods
Going Green: What Can You Do?
‘Going green’ is a popular concept and there are a number of practical benefits to be gained from incorporating a new concern for the environment into your...
By: Frank Rauscher | Writer, Owner of Garden Galaxy
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Growing Methods
Beekeeping 101
Bees are social creatures that work in harmony to establish a colony, reproduce their kind and, to our good fortune, produce the nectar of the gods known as honey. The...
By: Alan Ray
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