Plants
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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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Planting Seeds in Crisis
As governments of more and more countries introduce various kinds of lockdowns (1) during the ongoing virus “pandemic” (1), we…
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Starting a Food Forest for a Small Homestead in Zone 7
It’s an exciting time for Emma and me: Spring is approaching in North Carolina, and this year will mark the…
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Breaking Ground With Dynamic Accumulators
Since the term was first introduced in the 1980s, the use of dynamic accumulators on the permaculture homestead has become…
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Herbs of Zaytuna Farm – Tulsi
Here we are again folks, at the next stop on our Zaytuna Farm herb tour. We’ve already met Rosemary, Yarrow,…
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Sunchokes, Jerusalem Artichokes, Suntubers
Sunchokes, also commonly called Jerusalem artichokes, are native to the Eastern United States, where my wife Emma and I have…
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