"Permaculture" Blogs & Blog Posts

The streets in my neighborhood are dotted with piles of wood chips every few houses, as everyone prepares for “the wintering.” Me, too—I always try to make sure I get a Chip Drop this time of year; four yards of fresh maple were dropped last we...

October can be a strange month. Even when early fall dips back into summer-like temperatures, you can tell the season has changed. If light frosts haven’t set in yet, the threat of them is in the air every morning. I spend most of October rushing t...

It’s the end of the season, and we’re all starting to tuck in our garden beds for winter. The soil in your raised garden bed has worked hard all season to impart nutrients to your vegetables and flowers, which leaves the soil depleted. The long w...

As you’re working your way through your fall gardening checklist, you may have questions about what to do to your lawn before winter sets in—like whether aerating is involved. There are a few different factors to consider, but if you decide the a...

When I left Arizona for the Pacific Northwest thirteen years ago, I anticipated never needing air conditioning again. Now, I sit at the intersection of an A/C and two fans, and my garden has to put up with spikes of over 100 degrees every summer. Thi...

While you could make a DIY compost bin, grab cheap composter, and try the laziest ways to compost, this Reencle Prime Food Waste Composter is nice and easy, and it’s on sale for $488.99 right now (reg. $699). Read more...

Composting has an ick factor. Between gardening and cooking, I produce a lot of waste that goes right into the “green bin” for city composting and I’m always super happy to shuffle it to the curb and out of my house. I’d always wanted to comp...