Adaptability: Thriving in Change

Change is inevitable, and adaptability is the key to navigating it. Whether you’re dealing with something big like environmental shifts or small personal challenges, staying flexible helps you find potential solutions outside of your expectations. We can learn to reframe challenges that arise as opportunities for advancement. For example, turning a failed raised garden bed into a compostingRead More…

The Farm Ethic

Plant species don’t exist in isolation in the wild. their success is due to a complex interwoven matrix of natural support from other plants, animals, fungi and minerals. However in the commercial agricultural industry, we’ve predominantly grown our crops in traditionally fragmented systems. Only recently has the importance of planting adjacent spaces for pollinators, for green manure regeneratioRead 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…