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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.

Many spring ephemerals–such as daffodils–dazzle the early season with their colorful flowers. But their benefit to the ecosystem extends beyond beauty. Learn about spring ephemerals and how they can benefit a permaculture garden.

A hedgerow can offer beauty, productivity, biodiversity, and much more! Discover how to plant a hedgerow to meet your needs.

Hedgerows can increase the beauty, productivity, and biodiversity of a yard or landscape. Discover more reasons why this age-old strategy can benefit your home landscape.

Designing your homestead garden can be overwhelming. Here’s how a permaculture designer can help you meet your goals, and what to look for in a designer.

Fall is the best time to plant fruit trees. With a simple planting process, you can set your fruit trees up for success.

Are you challenged with sloping land? Here’s a solution to stop erosion on a hillside and create an easily-navigable terrace garden.

Do you know which garden weeds are beneficial? Increase the productivity of your garden by knowing how to harness the power of these five weeds.

Have you ever wondered why weeds exist? Once you know this secret of the permaculture garden, you can harness the power of weeds in your garden.

Have you ever wondered why weeds exist? Once you know the secret, you can harness the power of weeds in your garden.

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Amy StrossHi, I’m Amy!

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