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basket with sweet potatoes harvested from the garden

Follow this step-by-step guide to harvesting, curing, and storing sweet potatoes so you can have delicious, homegrown sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving Dinner.

Borage is a useful herb with delightful blue-purple flowers. Here are six reasons to grow this cousin to comfrey in the permaculture garden.

Daikon radishes

Got compaction? These clay-busting plants penetrate heavy soil to leave it loosened, aerated, and enriched. Jumpstart a regenerative garden ecology.

How to Improve Clay Soil in 6 Steps

Heavy clay soil can be frustrating. Follow this 6-step plan to improve soil so you can garden with ease and grow crops that thrive.

Beware: This Manure Will Destroy Your Garden! Cow manure is considered one of the best garden amendments. At least it used to be. Here's how manure in the garden may actually destroy your soil.

Manure is considered one of the best garden amendments. At least it used to be. Here’s how manure in the garden may actually destroy your soil.

Storing Seeds for Long-Term Seed Saving

Here are some tips for successfully storing seeds for the garden and how to keep them in the best condition for long-term storage.

Create a Food Forest for a Low-Maintenance Garden: A food forest, or edible forest garden, is a food production strategy. Find out how to create a low-maintenance, permaculture garden with edible rewards! #microfarm #foodforest #ediblelandscaping #permaculture #suburbanpermaculture #perennialcrops

A food forest, or edible forest garden, is a food production strategy. Find out how to create a low-maintenance, permaculture garden with edible rewards!

A fruit tree guild is a permaculture technique for disease-resistant, high-yield gardens. Learn more about this style of growing fruit trees that thrive.

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Amy StrossHi, I’m Amy!

I'm the author of
The Suburban Micro-Farm:
Modern Solutions for Busy People
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Join me as I share my permaculture gardening adventures in the suburbs.

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