Modern gardening often involves weeding, turning the soil, fertilization, and pest control. But permaculture is the practice of growing a garden with the least amount of intervention possible, relying ...

In this week's video – Part 7 of our series on Creating a Permaculture Paradise and Food Forest – we explore the very first step in starting any permaculture project: observation. Before making any ...

Limestone raised beds and a mandala-designed food forest honor resourceful permaculture tenets. Framed by historic live oak trees in cozy Lockhart, limestone raised beds and a mandala-designed food ...

Weiseman, Halsey, and Ruddock define integrated forest gardening as the “integration of all aspects of a land base into the development of healthy food, medicinal, and utility landscapes,” giving ...

Since prehistoric times humans have obtained food from forests and an effort has taken hold on the Cape to recapture that practice. The Food Forest Initiative is loosely organized but tightly focused ...

In 2015, Ben McConnell planted a forest in his front yard in Bouldin Creek. "It was probably close to 30 different trees that I planted, smaller trees, all sorts of fruit trees." The next year, as the ...