Plants
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Weeds: Real Nutrition, For Free
If you’re walking over chickweed and dandelion in your lawn or ignoring a nettle patch by the garden wall as…
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How to Use Your Fresh Culinary Herbs
I’m a huge fan of the herb garden right outside the kitchen door, as well as dotting herbs throughout vegetable…
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Forest Garden Plants – Ground Cover Plants for Deep Shade
Ground cover plants play an important role in the forest garden, protecting the soil, providing refuge for wildlife at ground…
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Polyculture Trial – Apple Polyculture vs Monoculture
I’m so looking forward to the spring to meet our Polyculture Study crew and get back into the gardens. This…
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All About Weeds
Weeds are a symptom, not the cause, of a problem. We can observe weeds to read the landscape, deduce what…
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Okinawa Spinach
Okinawa spinach is not a spinach at all, but a perennial leafy green. The tops of the leaves are dark…
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The Essential Guide to Everything you Need to Know about Growing Grapes
The Grapevine, the Rolls-Royce of fruit, a truly magnificent plant that is super easy to grow, ridiculously productive, wonderfully seductive, flourishes…
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Nitrogen-Fixing Trees for North Carolina (USDA Zone 7)
A piece of me feels guilty when I look at trees now. I used to love them for the simple…
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Stinging Nettle
Stinging nettle has a long and diverse history of use for food, medicine, cordage, and dye. Here are some ideas…
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Why Grow Inedible Flowers in a Permaculture Garden?
It hasn’t been until recently that I concerned myself all that much with flowers. It wasn’t that I had any…
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Dynamic Accumulators Part Two
Dynamic accumulators are plants that actively accumulate appreciable amounts of useful nutrients. These plants are potentially useful for those involved…
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Growing Ginger And Making Sauerkraut
This article is about how the ginger growing in our garden has inspired successful homemade sauerkraut in our kitchen, and…
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