The essentials for living your best life.
The essentials for living your best life.
Discover 14 powerful chop-and-drop plants that grow your own mulch, protect soil, suppress weeds, and build fertility right in your permaculture yard. From comfrey and clover to bananas and biomass shrubs, find the best choices for creating a healthier, more self-sustaining garden.
Give your young permaculture garden a stronger start with nurse plants that shelter seedlings, conserve moisture, build soil, and suppress weeds. Learn how to choose, place, and manage these helpful companions so your garden can grow into a resilient ecosystem.
Dynamic accumulators sound like nature’s fertilizer factory—but which plants truly earn a place in your garden? Discover practical choices like comfrey, clover, nettle, and daikon radish for building soil, supporting pollinators, and producing useful biomass without the hype.
Discover the best nitrogen-fixing plants for small permaculture gardens—from edible fava beans and goumi to low-growing clover and productive cover crops. These space-saving plants build healthier soil, support pollinators, and help your garden thrive with fewer outside inputs.
Choose the right cover crop for every garden bed by matching plants to your soil goals, climate, and next crop. From nitrogen-fixing clover and peas to weed-suppressing rye and fast-growing buckwheat, this guide makes crop rotation simple—even in small spaces.
Discover how cover crops like vetch, crimson clover, oats, and rye can transform your no-dig garden by suppressing weeds, preventing compaction, improving soil structure, and feeding beneficial organisms. Learn when and how to mow or mulch them for healthier, more fertile soil—without synthetic fertilizers or unnecessary digging.
Open your garden beds earlier this spring with winter-kill cover crops that protect soil, suppress weeds, add organic matter, and boost fertility. Learn which grains and legumes to plant, when to terminate them, and how to prepare the beds for healthy vegetables.
Boost your garden’s soil health, suppress weeds, and prepare for a stronger growing season by planting cover crops by hand. This simple guide walks you through choosing the right seeds, broadcasting them evenly, and helping them thrive through winter.
Transform your garden between seasons with simple cover crops that build organic matter, fix nitrogen, suppress weeds, prevent erosion, and improve soil structure. Discover the best options—from buckwheat and rye to crimson clover—and grow healthier vegetables in just one season.
Grow sweet, tender peas with confidence using simple tips for cool-season planting, soil preparation, trellising, pest protection, and timely harvesting. Discover how to boost yields and enjoy fresh peas at their flavorful best.
Discover the best companion plants for spring fava beans and learn how these hardworking legumes can boost soil health, suppress weeds, and help your garden thrive. With the right pairings, you’ll grow healthier plants, attract beneficial insects, and enjoy a more productive harvest.
Want bigger harvests with less effort? Companion planting pairs crops that naturally support each other—like corn, beans, squash, and leafy greens—to help deter pests, boost soil health, and make the most of every inch of garden space.
Discover how to grow spring fava beans successfully in any zone, with simple timing, planting, and care tips for a healthy, rewarding harvest. Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned gardener, these hardy cool-season beans are an easy way to boost your garden and your soil.
Want healthier soil and bigger harvests? Discover easy nitrogen-fixing plants like beans, peas, clover, and lupins that naturally boost fertility and help your garden thrive.
Compost enriches and strengthens your soil, while fertilizer delivers targeted nutrients directly to plants—but your garden benefits most from using both. Discover how these natural allies improve growth, soil health, drainage, and long-term fertility.
Transform tired garden soil into a thriving foundation for healthier, more productive plants. Discover simple, natural tips—from compost and organic matter to cover crops, calcium, and worms—that can rejuvenate your soil and boost growth all season long.
Perennial bushes are a smart, low-maintenance way to turn your yard into a beautiful edible forest garden, with layers of berries, soil-building plants, and wildlife-friendly shrubs working together. Learn how to choose the right varieties for your climate and create a thriving food-producing landscape that gets better year after year.