Tag: Permaculture
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Dilapidated Apartment Building Transformed into an Off-Grid, Forest-Garden Community
They’ve UNpaved paradise and put up a food forest in the parking lot in Portland, Oregon
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America’s First Urban “Agrihood” in Detroit Feeds 2000 Families in a 2-Mile Radius
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); A blighted neighborhood in Detroit has been transformed into a beautiful “agrihood” built around a 3-acre organic farm and orchard
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Want Butterflies Next Spring? Don’t Rake Your Fall Leaves, National Wildlife Federation Urges
Drop that rake! Along with fall leaves, you’re raking up the butterfly pupae attached to them, as well as winter habitat for salamanders, chipmunks, box turtles and toads. Let them fertilize your lawn instead.
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Steep “Hugelkulture” Beds Can Produce For Decades Without Watering or Fertilizing
Steep garden beds formed over a mound of rotting logs prevent soil compaction, hold onto water like a sponge, provide nutrients for decades, create more surface area for crops and an easier height for harvesting.
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A Single Dragonfly Can Eat Hundreds of Mosquitoes Per Day, Plant This to Attract Them to Your Yard
Plant these aquatic plants in a barrel of water and never worry about mosquitoes, termites, deerflies, blackflies or horseflies again!
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“No Mow May” Campaign Asks Us to Leave the Lawnmower Locked Up Until June to Help Save the Bees
Hold off mowing the lawn until after May, wildlife organization urges. The results are a wider variety of flowers for pollinators when they need them most!
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How to Grow a “100-Year-Old” Forest in 10 Years
Engineer develops method for growing a food forest ten times faster than normal
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14 Beautiful Perennial Flowers That’ll Bloom Year After Year and Never Need to be Replanted
Perennial flowers also make excellent cover crops for your veggie garden, improving soil and keeping pests away!
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7 Simple Steps to Bring Dead Soil Back to Life
Stop tilling, weeding and fertilizing; add cover crops, compost, microbes and worms instead
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One-Acre Permaculture Garden Feeds 50 Families
One-acre garden provides fruit, veggies and eggs for 50 families with very little labor More and more people are learning growing food doesn’t have to be hard work. When you work with nature instead of against it, it does much of the work for you.