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Learning How to Build and Maintain Soil Fertility

Soil is a gardener’s most valuable asset. Providing a happy home for soil organisms in your garden can pay dividends.

Learn ideas for building and maintaining soil fertility, including fixing compacted soil, enriching with soil amendments, working with water and improving drainage, mulching, companion planting, and more.

benefits of chives in the garden

Chives are a delicious and useful herb to grow in the herb garden, vegetable garden, and food forest. Here are five benefits of chives in the garden.

5 Reasons to Grow Yarrow: Yarrow can catapult the success of your garden. A medicinal powerhouse and an essential herb in the permaculture garden, here are 5 reasons to grow yarrow. #growingherbs #permaculture

Yarrow can catapult the success of your garden. A medicinal powerhouse and an essential herb in the permaculture garden, here are 5 reasons to grow yarrow.

3-bin composting system

There are many ways to build a compost bin. However, you’ll want to choose a design to meet your needs. Here are six compost system designs to choose from.

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

Worm castings are an easy, inexpensive, and important fertilizer for the garden. Learn how to make a worm bin to compost your food scraps and fertilize your 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.

How to Kill Poison Ivy in 5 Steps: Here's how to get rid of poison ivy with an eco-friendly, permaculture-based, 5-step process.

Poison ivy is no fun. This article outlines an eco-friendly, five-step permaculture approach for eradicating it.

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  3. Edible Landscaping
  4. Garden Planning
  5. Growing and Using Herbs
  6. Growing Fruit Crops
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  8. Permaculture Gardening
  9. Rainwater Harvesting
  10. Suburban Homesteading

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