After many decades, there still seems to be some controversy in the horticulture world as to whether permaculture design works, despite many thriving and successful examples of working permaculture demonstration sites worldwide. For my amusement, I decided to ask the AI (artificial intelligence) program ChatGTP […]
The before and after photographs in this article were taken at the very beginning when I first finished planting up my urban backyard food forest, and then approximately three to four years later. Each pair of photographs was taken from roughly the same view point, […]
Brett Pritchard, a recognized pioneering permaculturalist and recipient of the Permaculture Services Award (1992) has released a set of mindmaps to accompany his free to download Permaculture Ethics and Principles 21 Card Set which is available on his website http://www.permaculturefundamentals.com . There are 21 mindmaps […]
Brett Pritchard, a recognized pioneering permaculturalist and recipient of the Permaculture Services Award (1992) has released a free to download Permaculture Ethics and Principles 21 Card Set which is available on his website http://www.permaculturefundamentals.com . In my opinion the Permaculture Ethics and Principles 21 Card […]
Why Plant an Edible Hedge? If you thought that hedges and hedging were restricted to ornamental gardening only, you’d be seriously mistaken! Hedges are quite useful in a garden, and can serve many functions, such as: They can do all this but hedges can also […]
Overview Here are the annual figures for the garden yields for the period of Oct 2011 – Oct 2012, the garden’s fourth year. The annual production for this garden was: The total garden bed area is 686 sq. feet (64 sq. metres). The average monthly […]
Here are the annual garden yield figures for Oct 2010–Oct 2011, the garden’s third year. The annual production for this garden was 131kg in the first year, 202kg in the second year and 194kg in the third year (as a consequence of a minor disaster!). […]
Overview 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 second year was 202kg, up 71kg from last years 131kg. The total garden bed area is 686 […]
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 […]
This article is an introduction to the gardening technique of Backyard Orchard Culture – a system of high density planting of fruit trees which allows for a wide variety of fruit to be grown in a limited space, and harvested over a prolonged period of […]
Here are the annual figures for the garden yields for the period of Oct 2008 – Oct 2009, the garden’s first year. The annual production for this garden was: The total garden bed area is 686 sq. feet (64 sq. metres). The average monthly amount […]
