Category: Landscaping

Permaculture Principles in Everyday Life

Permaculture offers a framework for sustainable living that integrates land, resources, and people. On the most basic level, permaculture could be implemented by simple companion planting in your garden. Companion planting means adjacent plants are arranged in such a way to bring additional benefit from each others proximity. Permaculture could also be designing water catchment systems for grRead More…

Planning a Food Forest

Planning a forest is essentially creating a small ecosystem on your property. You may be tempted to start by just buying fruit trees and planting around your perimeter, but plants thrive in communities. Instead you need to consider how plants naturally group up in the wild. botanical life exists in 7 distinct layers of any forest. Your personal food forest should have representatives from eacRead More…