Garden Tour July 2016
Follow along on a tour of my permaculture site. You’ll see: swales, ponds, gardens, chickens, bees, and much more.
View ArticleChicken Garden Preparation
As part of my chicken paddock shift system, my chickens spend the winter grazing my zone 1 garden plots. This gives their paddocks time to rest and recuperate, and it gives the chickens a new place to...
View ArticleDVD Review “Urban Permaculture” Geoff Lawton
I was really looking forward to this DVD, because I have heard Paul Wheaton talk so glowingly about it over the past couple of years. Geoff does a nice job of showing many different examples of urban...
View ArticleDVD Review “Establishing a Food Forest” Geoff Lawton
If you are planning to establish a food forest, this DVD is a must watch. As with all of Geoff Lawton’s videos, the production quality is top notch, and the concepts are entertaining and informative....
View ArticleDVD Review “Intro to Permaculture Design” Geoff Lawton
I put off watching this one, because I wasn’t sure I would get much out of an intro video. There was not much in the way of things that I hadn’t seen before, but it was also much more entertaining than...
View ArticleDVD Review “Soils” Geoff Lawton
I watched this one last out of the set of five that I purchased. I guess I was least interested in this one. I thought it might be a little dry. I was wrong of course. As with all of Geoff Lawton’s...
View ArticleHow to Build an Herb Spiral Video Part 1
See step by step how to construct a stacked stone herb spiral.
View ArticleHow to Install Keyhole Beds
Keyhole beds are not only pleasing to the eye, but they require the least amount of space needed to be sacrificed to walkways for your zone 1 garden beds. I recently redesigned my garden beds in a...
View ArticleChicken Paddock Shift System
My chicken pasture is approximately 1350 square feet. While I thought this would be plenty of space for (5) chickens, under constant grazing there has been degradation of the pasture. There is still...
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