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Learning How to Design and Maintain a Permaculture Garden

Permaculture is a design approach for growing food with ecological integrity. Learn ideas for designing and maintaining your own garden ecosystem that has the diversity, stability, and resilience of a natural ecosystem.

Tomato plants growing on an arched trellis above a diversity of other crops and flowers.

A monoculture may look tidy, but it concentrates risk. Here’s how biodiverse gardens build healthier soil, support natural pest control, handle drought and excess water better, and create a more resilient garden ecosystem.

Observation-notes-permaculture-site-design

Observation is an essential first step in permaculture site design. Learn how to use this powerful tool for blending your goals with your land’s ecology.

Get Them What They’ll Love: Tenth Acre Farm Gift Guide for Permaculture Gardeners

Whether they’re into vegetable gardens, fruit trees, food forests, or a little bit of everything, these thoughtful permaculture gardener gift collections are sure to make your favorite gardener–or yourself–happy!

growing community with a community garden

Read about how one suburb created a community garden that demonstrates a permaculture response to land repair, community fellowship, and growing food.

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

Want to welcome birds into your permaculture garden and still get a harvest? Learn the benefits of making your food garden a bird-friendly haven and how to do it.

Learn how to build a rain garden that captures rainwater runoff from hard surfaces, such as a roof or pavement, for irrigation or to reduce water pollution.

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.

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Author Box

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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