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Learning How to Grow Fruit Crops in a Permaculture Garden

Growing fruit crops is a great way to boost productivity and biodiversity. Learn about growing edible perennials like fruit trees, berry bushes, bramble berries, and strawberries, as well as the companion plants that help them thrive.

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

Growing Perennial Crops as a Side Hustle: Would you like to make money from your garden doing something you love? Here are six ways to grow perennial crops as a side hustle.

Would you like to make money from your garden doing something you love? Here are six ways to grow perennial crops as a side hustle.

All About Aronia: Grow Your Own Superfood Berries — Ready to grow your own superfood? Check out aronia berries, which make an excellent addition to the permaculture food forest, hedgerow, or edible landscape.

Ready to grow your own superfood? Aronia shrubs are low-maintenance, widely adaptable to a variety of conditions, and yield a ‘superfood’ berry. Certainly worthy of a spot in the edible landscape!

6 Fruit Crops to Propagate for Free from Cuttings: Growing fruit crops is really exciting, but the cost of buying new plants is not. Here are 6 fruit crops to propagate for free from cuttings.

Growing fruit is really exciting, but the cost of buying new plants is not. Here are 6 fruit crops to propagate for free from cuttings.

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!

A permaculture food forest is a strategy for growing food that focuses on creating a backbone of edible perennials for lasting and low-maintenance harvests. 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.

Wet soil can be a challenge for even the most experienced gardeners. Here are some tips for growing in wet soil and 15 perennial crops to try.

Grow these Crops for a Low-Maintenance Garden

Do you need a low-maintenance garden to fit your lifestyle? Reap an abundant harvest with less work by growing these crops.

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