Without sufficient beneficial microbes on (and in) our bodies, we get sick very fast. It’s the same for plants. Perhaps the most beneficial fungi for plant health is a group of fungi you may have heard me talk about before…
You may have noticed I don’t usually plant in straight rows. I prefer a much wilder garden. I do still group plants together but more in various-sized clusters than straight rows. Here’s an example:
*A quote by Woody Allen
Note: I’ve now started selling the organic fertilizers and microbial inoculants mentioned in this post. You can read more about that here. You can get the jump on spring by starting plants from seeds. Some plants pretty much need this,…
Close-up of mole by Michael David Hill is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 So, you want to know how to get rid of moles and voles (and gophers)? First of all, moles are great! They plow the soil and eat…
A photo from an Academy member of a tomato hornworm (explained below). You are going to fail this year… Hornworms will eat your tomatoes. A loved one will get sick. The bindweed you thought was finally under control will spring…
Let’s say you’re the type of person for whom establishing a big, organic, food-producing permaculture garden is a major goal. And fortunately, you’ve just come into a windfall – a huge sum of money. You can finally buy or build…
I spent too much of my life caring about what other people thought of me. Especially people who didn’t really seem to care too much about what I thought of them. I still care too much sometimes. But I try…
In gardening, there’s a lot of focus on chemistry – fertilizer, NPK, etc. And that’s important, but I like to spend just as much time on biology – microorganisms, insects, animals, and of course, plants. Today I’m excited to teach…
‘Why’ always comes first because it’s the most important question for pretty much everything we do in life. Asking why helps us figure out if the thing we’re thinking of doing is something we really want to do. If we…
Masanobu Fukuoka (Photo credit) Every so often I read Masanobu Fukuoka’s The One-Straw Revolution to remind myself I sometimes have very little idea of what I’m doing in my garden – and my life. In some ways it’s a troubling…
I love digging in a garden and I also love walking through a forest. Most people think of forests and gardens as two separate things, but forest gardening combines the best of both worlds. In this video, I show you…