PERMACULTURE: Urban Carbon Farming
By Mary 'Klibs' Dralle, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2023. Editor’s note: Please welcome Mary 'Klibs' Dralle, the new permaculture...
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December 2023
Permaculture
- Sep 30
PERMACULTURE: Reducing Chemicals In Your Yard And Home
By Diane C. Kennedy, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2023. Editor’s note: This is the last Permaculture column written by Diane Kennedy...
- Jul 31
PERMACULTURE: Five Great Tools For Gardeners
By Diane Kennedy, Finch Frolic Garden Permaculture, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2023. 1. Mesh Netting Instead of Bird Netting This is a...
- Apr 3
PERMACULTURE: Planting In Zones
By Diane Kennedy for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2023. Planting in Zones Permaculture design arranges types of plants in zones. You’ve...
- Feb 1
PERMACULTURE: Peat-Free - Why And How?
By Diane Kennedy, for Let’s Talk Plants! February 2023. Peat-Free, Why and How? Any gardener is familiar with peat moss, made of the...
- Dec 1, 2022
PERMACULTURE: Overwatering
By Diane C. Kennedy, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2022. Overwatering One of the largest issues with keeping a landscape alive is...
- Sep 30, 2022
PERMACULTURE: The Breakdown On Mulch
By Diane C. Kennedy, for Let’s Talk Plants, October 2022. The Breakdown On Mulch Mulch and compost are different. Compost is organic...
- Jul 31, 2022
PERMACULTURE: Poison-Free Animal Control
By Diane Kennedy, of Finch Frolic Garden Permaculture, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2022. Poison-Free Animal Control Every poisoned...
- May 31, 2022
PERMACULTURE: Roses Without Chemicals
By Diane C. Kennedy, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2022. Roses Without Chemicals Roses are one of the most abused ornamental plants in...
- Apr 1, 2022
PERMACULTURE: Loving Nature To Death
By Diane Kennedy, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2022. With the best of intentions, many people who love the natural world can also be...
- Feb 1, 2022
PERMACULTURE: Replanting the Vanishing Treescape
By Diane C. Kennedy. Western Sycamore, Platanus racemosa. https://calscape.org/Platanus-racemosa-(Western-Sycamore) The West is coming...
- Dec 1, 2021
FINCH FROLIC GARDEN PERMACULTURE: Three Reasons
By Diane C. Kennedy, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2021. An excellent permaculture method of evaluating your landscape is to use a...
- Sep 30, 2021
PERMACULTURE: Prepare For Water Harvest Now!
By Diane Kennedy for Let's Talk Plants! October 2021. One inch of rain falling on one acre in an hour is 27,154 gallons of pure, free,...
- Jul 31, 2021
PERMACULTURE: The Ethics of Permaculture
By Diane Kennedy. Bill Mollison and David Holmgren coined the term permaculture in the 1970’s, and with the term they defined the...
- Mar 1, 2021
PERMACULTURE: Composting for Everyone
Turning organic materials into rich soil for food production isn’t a mystery. Organic stuff is eaten by creatures of diminishing sizes, poop
- Jan 1, 2021
PERMACULTURE: What is a Plant Guild?
Permaculture encompasses methods of gardening, horticulture and agriculture based on observations of nature. While that sounds very prosaic,
- Nov 1, 2020
PERMACULTURE: Hügelkultur - Burying Wood
Hügelkultur (hoo-gull culture) has ancient origins in the mountains of Germany, where warmth is treasured and rain is frequent. There they
- Aug 31, 2020
PERMACULTURE: Be a Soil Farmer
Permaculturists are soil farmers first and plant growers second. All the world’s wealth is in its soil and the real gold is the microorganis
- Jun 30, 2020
PERMACULTURE: Vertical Space
Training vining plants up trellises is nothing new; using trellises and walls can at least double your growing space. Now as more people are
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