Modern gardening often involves weeding, turning the soil, fertilization, and pest control. But permaculture is the practice of growing a garden with the least amount of intervention possible, relying ...

Limestone raised beds and a mandala-designed food forest honor resourceful permaculture tenets. Framed by historic live oak trees in cozy Lockhart, limestone raised beds and a mandala-designed food ...

In this week's video – Part 7 of our series on Creating a Permaculture Paradise and Food Forest – we explore the very first step in starting any permaculture project: observation. Before making any ...

What started as just a few plots in 2009 now takes up an entire city block. Credit: Courtesy El Paseo Community Garden In the permaculture site at El Paseo Community Garden, seven layers of plants ...

A narrow side yard supports food and flowers with permaculture techniques. What to do with that narrow strip between your house and the neighbor’s? With sustainable, permaculture techniques, Tyaga ...

A food forest is a way of growing food and other plants for human and animal use. Food forests, a type of permaculture food system, can be incorporated into any sized garden and once established can ...

Homesteadin' Hawai'i is dedicated to sharing knowledge gained from living over 20 years off-grid in Hawaii on a homestead I ...

In 2015, Ben McConnell planted a forest in his front yard in Bouldin Creek. "It was probably close to 30 different trees that I planted, smaller trees, all sorts of fruit trees." The next year, as the ...

Tucked into the western edge of Jefferson Park is a place that feels like a secret garden — if that garden were seven acres of public land where anyone, at any time, can harvest fresh produce, pick ...

Mansfield's Liberty Park dates back to the 1930s, when residents raised the money to buy 24 acres with a small creek on the city's Northeast Side, according to Richland County archives. After years of ...