The City Of Memphis Forced Me To Destroy Food-Producing Plants Under Threat Of Jail Time
As the obsession with growing grass has not let up, and the cost of living, including the price of food, sky-rockets, some people have coped with these rising pressures by becoming more self-sufficient. After having grown a food forest for 4 years, I have moved to a new house, where I had to start a
by 3 months ago
How To Aquascape Your Fish Or Duck Pond
When adding pond plants to your fish pond or duck pond, it is important to take note of not only the size of your fish or ducks at maturity, but also the efficiency with which your pond plants are able to clean nutrients from the pond water, the aesthetic value of the plants, and choosing plants that are multi-functional. Pond plants range from flowering plants to plants that produce ornamental or edible leaves, plants that are only edible to fish or ducks, and can include trees, shrubs, and ground covers.
by 7 months ago
How To Repurpose An Old Wooden Fence As A Rain Garden Pathway To Redirect Rain Water
Rain garden pathway created with an old wooden fence and lined with small boulders
by 7 months ago
How To Grow Banana Plants Pond-Side In Your Pond’s Wetland
The massive size of banana plants and their quick growing nature make them an excellent plant to add to your Aquascape as a pond filter. Learn how to grow banana plants in your pond's Wetland filter to take advantage of this powerful, beautiful plant.
by 7 months ago
Edible Hummingbird-Attracting Plants Perfect For the Food Forest
To support hummingbirds while growing food in an edible landscape or food garden, try growing these delicious plants to feed yourself and the hummingbirds with these food-producing plants.
by 1 year ago
Cat-Friendly Organizational Hacks To Maximize Space In Your Home
Creating cat rooms & cat homes that increase storage and organization can give cats more fun places to rest while you keep home more organized. It's an interesting, but fun, challenge aimed at maximizing the amount of space you have, especially when space is limited, in order to create a comfortable living space for you and your 13 black cats.
by 1 year ago
How To Grow Sweet Shoot Bamboo (Phyllostachys Dulcis) In The Permaculture Food Forest
Sweet Shoot Bamboo is a great permaculture plant with delicious shoots, excellent timber, and evergreen shade to protect tender perennials and ducks/chickens.
by 1 year ago
Tips For Designing A Rain Garden In Your Edible Landscape
Boggy or muddy areas in an edible landscape are great places to plant fast-growing, water-loving, food-producing plants, plants that produce a lot of chop and drop material, and plants that spread "aggressively" when given adequate water. Whether you are looking for something food-producing or just would like to dedicate a couple of spots for growing your chop and drop materials to build soil fertility in your food forest, there are a whole host of tips for how to go about designing these rain-collecting areas, also known as rain gardens, to help support the growth of your edible landscape.
by 1 year ago
High Value Food and Timber Crops To Pay The Mortgage On Your Homestead
When buying land is calculated in cost per square foot, every piece of land you can grow something that makes you an income counts. Increase and stabilize your edible landscape or homestead income by growing these high value plants with a focus on perennials, closed-loop systems, and sustainability. You know, the permaculture way.
by 1 year ago
How To Grow Wasabi In The Edible Landscape
Can wasabi rhizomes be successfully grown in an edible landscape or food forest setting? Here, we go on another food-growing adventure, using quackponics--food forest duck fertilization-- among other organic, pesticide, and chemical-free methods to grow the amazing wasabi rhizome.
by 1 year ago
Edible Riparium Plants To Grow Food Semi-Hydroponicly In Your Fish Tank
When you want to use passive hydroponics to grow organic fruit in your fish aquarium, these are the best fruit trees, shrubs, and plants for your riparium setup.
by 1 year ago
Permaculture Companion Plants For Tree Collards In The Edible Landscape
Although Tree Collards are perennials, they may need some help staying off the ground by staking their large trunks or by growing a stake in the form of a lovely bamboo plant. Tree collards can also benefit from ground covers that help hold in soil moisture and can produce their own food crop, thereby increasing the amount of food you can harvest in the same space in your food garden, edible landscape, or food forest.
by 1 year ago
Permaculture Tips For Keeping Ducks Warm(er) In The Winter
Ducks are quite cold-weather proof, so worry less. This is due to them being 20% hate and 80% feathers. Which, hopefully, will make you feel better about just how much cold they can comfortably handle. This does not mean that you shouldn't prepare their duck house or coop for winter to make it as warm as possible. It is just something to help put yourself at ease when you start to wonder if your birds are going to turn into duckcicles overnight.
by 1 year ago
How To Create A Mini Patio Pond (No Filter, No Tech) For Pet Fish
By following the principles of the Walstad Method for dirted aquarium fish tanks, you can create a lovely, easy to maintain tiny pond for your pet fish perfect for keeping on your porch, balcony, or backyard patio. Some of the pros of keeping your pet fish outdoors include: -Full access to sunlight for maximum growth of aquatic plants -Availability of bugs and flying insect pests who may drown or otherwise get caught in your fish pond to provide additional nutrition for your pet fish -Ability to have the fish pond refill itself on rain days or access to a water hose for pond refilling -Potentially more space for a larger pond/outdoor aquarium setup than is available to you indoors
by 1 year ago
Tips For Growing Water Hyacinth As Sustainable Duck & Chicken Feed
When growing Water Hyacinth as a sustainable flock feed, to keep your homestead, edible landscape, or garden birds fed in a healthy, closed-loop way, it is ideal to be able to start growing these quickly propagating plants before introducing your flock, so as to have time to get it established before your birds begin destroying it.
by 1 year ago
How To Grow A Bounty Of Food With Banana Plants In The Permaculture Edible Landscape
Banana plants are a wonderful permaculture food-producing plant that serves multiple functions in a food forest that help increase food harvests and build soil fertility.
by 1 year ago
How To Pick The Perfect Plants For Your Cottagecore Rain Garden
-Rain Garden The Cottagecore Way And Unleash The True Power of Perennial Permaculture -Bigger is better! The bigger the plant, the bigger the roots which help to sink water into the ground and prevent erosion
by 1 year ago
