Plants
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5 gardening tips to keep your plants healthy
Sometimes, it may be difficult to know the best ways to keep your plants healthy, especially if you’re not a…
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Why You Should Add More Native Species to Your Garden
Gardening is a popular pastime for people of all ages and living conditions. Gardeners put in hours of work to…
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Make a Frame for a Veggie Net Using Mulberry Branches
Long, flexible mulberry branches + pieces of old veggie net = caterpillar-proofed veggies. Recently we’ve begun experimenting with bandicoot-proofing our…
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The daily dance of flowers tracking the sun is more fascinating than most of us realise
Gregory Moore, The University of Melbourne When I was a child, I was intrigued by the Queensland box (Lophostemon confertus)…
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Modular Veggie Growing with Cut Off Barrels
This article, and the one to follow, describe our latest ideas for growing the kinds of veggies that caterpillars love…
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Slash-mulch: High-Productivity, Regenerative Farming without Fertilizer, Plastics, Poisons, or Tilling.
This material is adapted from the upcoming book Beauty in Abundance, now on pre-order. Thanks to the Permaculture and Regenerative…
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Growing Trees From Seed
As a permaculture designer, I think, I should be growing my trees from seeds I collect. There is a lot…
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Let’s Choose a More Empowering Story
Our ancestors’ ingenuity and know-how kept them alive for untold generations – long enough for us to come along. Everything…
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The People’s Medicine
This is a short, simple article for what should be known as an easy, accessible practice: that of using humble,…
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Who speaks for weeds
Before I begin I must note for the record that I write this with great trepidation. My palms are sweaty,…
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Essential Oils: Some Things to Consider
People tend to think that because they come from plants, essential oils are always safe and beneficial to use. But…
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Mullein – Indigenous Friend to All
According to Oregon Wild (an American conservation organisation), some 500,000 acres of Oregons wild lands were developed in 2015. I…
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