Plants
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Four of our Favourite Plants with Edible Flowers
During this post, we’re going to take a look at a few of our favourite plants with edible flowers. Most…
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Four of our Favourite Trees with Edible Leaves
During this post, we’re going to take a look at some trees that have edible leaves. Since trees can produce…
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The Essential Guide to Probably Everything you Need to Know about Growing Cornelian Cherry – Cornus mas
Cornellian Cherry is undoubtedly one of the easiest fruit you can grow in a temperate climate. The plants produce a…
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Nature’s Original Toothbrush
Researching the topic of homemade toothpastes recently, I began to wonder what people did before there were plastic toothbrushes. Turns…
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Yarrow for Oral Care
In a recent article I described the use of the herb yarrow (Achillea millefolium) as first aid for a bleeding…
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Yarrow for Wound First Aide
The herb yarrow (Achillea millefoleum) has had many names, attesting to its many, many uses. Its particularly well known for…
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Growing a fig tree up a wall
Our garden has some constraints: (a) available space; and (b) available sunlight. Taken together it was not possible to generate…
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Frost in the Garden
It seems many a gardener spends the winter locked up inside, hiding from the chilly weather, darning socks in front…
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A Year in the Life of a Deciduous Tree and Understanding Our Role as Facilitators
Unlike other methods of growing food, in permaculture, we try to understand the natural order of things and do our…
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Edible Weeds on Farms
The word “weed” has negative connotations to many people. As such, some humans go about disturbing the landscape, poisoning and…
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A Permaculture Take on Why to Grow Zinnias
I’ve been getting into flowers this year. At one of my jobs, a gardening gig, in addition to growing organic…
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Nitrogen Fixation
An essential component of any regenerative landscape will be the Nitrogen-fixing perennial plants within the community of fruits, nuts and…
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