Permaculture

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

PERMACULTURE: Replanting the Vanishing Treescape

By Diane C. Kennedy. Western Sycamore, Platanus racemosa. https://calscape.org/Platanus-racemosa-(Western-Sycamore) The West is coming...

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...

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,...

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...

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

PERMACULTURE: What is a Plant Guild?

Permaculture encompasses methods of gardening, horticulture and agriculture based on observations of nature. While that sounds very prosaic,

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

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

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