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.
Essential Concepts: Plant close only when mature size, airflow, and root space still hold. Dense permaculture beds work best with mixed growth habits, staggered harvests, and room for pruning.
Discover how fruit trees can transform your backyard into a thriving urban food forest. Learn to choose the right trees, layer companion plants, boost biodiversity, and enjoy abundant harvests in even the smallest spaces.
Discover how backyard trees can transform your permaculture garden—boosting biodiversity, enriching soil, conserving water, producing food, and creating a resilient, thriving ecosystem for years to come.
Discover how permaculture can create a healthier, more resilient future through regenerative growing, smarter resource use, fair sharing, and closed-loop systems. From restoring ecosystems and strengthening food security to reducing waste and climate impact, this practical approach helps people and nature thrive together.
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.