Suburban permaculture

Suburban Permaculture

Swales are ditches dug on contour with the removed dirt placed on the downside slope of the ditch to form a berm. Water will get caught in the ditch and slowly soak into the ground. All sorts of pl…

Wondering how to do it all on your permaculture site? Learn how to break down all your dreams into bite-sized phases of development.

Forest garden permaculture 1/4 acre

The before and after photographs in this article were taken at the very beginning when I first finished planting up my urban backyard food forest, and then approximately three to four years later. Each pair of photographs was taken from roughly the same view point, so the same garden beds are visible, to shown the…

Forest gardens, or food forests, are one of the best ways to grow your own food. Create a permaculture forest garden in your backyard!

SE Foster Permaculture Village Portland, OR

Permaculture is a design system, and within that system are a multitude of techniques and strategies that we can use.

“I started out wanting to grow food for my husband and I, and then I figured out I enjoy growing the food for the insects and the bees and the butterflies the most,” Lockhart gardener Donna Daniels told us last November. Gardening was new to her, though, when she and husband Len Gabbay scooted ou

Garden Layout Contest When I first started writing this post, I intended for the post to be my entry for the garden… by thelaundrylady