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How to Build a Fruit-centered Guild (Pt1)
To build a guild think soil, roots, and results. A mature ecosystem has a rich layer of biomass that has accumulated over many, many years. In order to replicate, create your own layer of rich...
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How to Build a Fruit-centered Guild (Pt2)
Once you have built a healthy layer of topsoil, wait a while (like months) while the materials break down and the heat isn’t so intense as to devour the roots of early-plantings. Guild-building is a...
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Guild Building: Grow with your guilds… (Pt3)
Once we have allowed for ample decomposition and the accumulation of multiple nitrogen/carbon-rich layers of biomass along with a healthy number of lively microbes, planting may begin. Really, what...
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Healing Tree: the website
I’ve been brainstorming ideas to make this blog more effective and I’ve decided to build a website around topics discussed on the blog while maintaining the blog as a central forum for discussion and...
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Introducing the “Worm Bag”
If you love vermiculture, but are hesitant about separating worms from compost from other wastes in the effort of saving castings and other good stuff, the worm bag offers a greater level of efficiency...
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Farming and Food Security
Today, we face a greater threat from within our food producing system than from any threat of plant disease or infestation.
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HTF What the heck is hugelkultur, anyway? events
Interested in learning to build soil for your raised garden beds? Wondering about that crazy German word you’ve heard floating around of late? What is hugelkultur, anyway? We’ll share the answer and...
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“You can’t do that without a tractor!” and other things people tell us… [Part...
We hear this a lot, “How can you do that without a tractor?” It helps that we don’t till and manage the farm in a manner consistent with Permaculture’s ‘slow and steady’ principle. But the question...
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Slow and Steady Wins the Race
People utilize permaculture principles selectively. It’s in our nature and there are 12. And honestly, it took me a few years before I really, fully, truly understood all 12. That’s part of what makes...
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Things to do when not farming…
The seed catalogs are piling up and it’s a constant reminder of how in flux we’ll be as of June. It’s been a long time since I’ve not put in a large seed order, and frankly, I’m feeling a bit antsy...
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