Some of y’all are familiar with the problem solving principle popular with permaculturists and plenty others: make the problem the solution. I’ve mentioned it before for things like getting the chickens to shred leaves for me to make them happy and to save me time and energy running the shredder,…
It’s customary when writing these sorts of gardening advice blogs to include your top favorite/most recommended things to grow, so here’s a dozen I’ve chosen after a bit of thought. Some are categories rather than specific things, and I’m definitely not above cheating at making my own list. My criteria…
The next couple months is my favorite time of year to get free biomass to bring into the garden and food forest system. This makes sense from the perspective of my temperate forest biome: we’re coming into leaf drop and die-back season. For people in urban and suburban spaces, or…
The thing is, you can grow plants with MiracleGro. You can get a crop, look at your lush growth and think “I’m growing this life. Based on what I’m seeing here I have every reason to believe this garden is alive” But you’ll also be weakening soil microbes, especially fungal…
