Urban Food Forest Garden Yields, Two Years In

Here are the final figures for the garden yields for the period of Oct 2009 – Oct 2010, the garden’s second year. The annual production for this first year was 202kg, up 71kg from last years 131kg. The total garden bed area is 686 sq. […]

How to Start Your Permaculture Garden

Most people passionate about living sustainably and harmoniously with nature will eventually stumble upon the system of Permaculture, it’s hard not to, it’s a world-wide phenomenon and it’s growing! If you’re reading this, then you’re one of these people! Some of you will eventually study […]

How to Make Your Own DIY Homemade Garden Sprays

In Permaculture we like to do things naturally, and we like to exercise our initiative to make use of the resources at hand to achieve our ends. What better way to do this than to brew up your own DIY garden natural pesticides, fungicides, plant […]

How to Propagate Plants from Softwood Cuttings

One thing a growing garden needs is plants, and lots of them! To buy enough plants to fill a regular backyard garden can be quite an expensive affair, but, thankfully, it doesn’t have to be that way. Nature provides freely and abundantly, and when we […]