Food Plants – Perennial
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Edible Forest Gardens Tasting Workshop
With Eric Toensmeier, Jonathan Bates and Steve Breyer October 19-20, 2012, Holyoke & Southampton, Massachusetts USA The best way to…
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Higher Order Taxonomy: Nature’s Filing System
by Eric Toensmeier When I started to learn about useful plants and their scientific (Latin) names, I quickly came to…
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Abundance in the Garden: the Backyard Grocery Store
Our abundant garden: pineapple, leeks, spring onions, strawberry beds, greens, broccoli and numerous other edible plants visible in this picture.…
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How to Attract Beneficial Predators & Pollinators
It was recently reported in a research study conducted by Michigan University that predatory insect attracting plants saved American farmers…
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Woody Agriculture – On the Road to a New Paradigm
by Philip A. Rutter, B L. Rutter-Daywater, and S.J. Wiegrefe, originally published on the Oil Drum. In any attempt to…
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User–Generated Food Forest Resource is Online
The Apios Institute for Regenerative Perennial Agriculture has spent several years developing a user–generated resource on food forests. Users can…
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Method for Beautiful Gardens with Little Work
Now I will share with you my Beautiful Gardens with Little Work method, so you can enjoy a nice garden…
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Share the Love – Seed Saving
Onion going to seed When I started to take an interest in permaculture, one of the first things I wanted…
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A Tip for the Strawberry Patch
An easy trick for saving your strawberries from birds! by Mari Korhonen Here’s a little tip I learned last summer…
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Preparing Our Children For a Resilient Future, Part II: Food Security
I doubt many would disagree that food is one of the most important things that we are going to need…
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Pasture Cropping: an Integrated Approach to Grain and Pasture Production
Harvesting oats as green native perennial pasture grows up between the cereal rows (Seis, 2006) Pasture cropping is a farmer-initiated…
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Raised Beds and Soil Rehab with Yard Waste
Clean up Over the last two years, here in South West Pennsylvania, a snow and wind storm knocked down a…
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