Grow A Homestead Food Forest On Just 3 Acres
October 13, 2023How should you prepare land for a food forest when you have 3 acres or more? Follow these steps to ready your land for Permaculture food production.
How should you prepare land for a food forest when you have 3 acres or more? Follow these steps to ready your land for Permaculture food production.
Establishing a food forest (or edible woodland) is a great way to convert acreage into production. Follow these steps for a proven plan.
You can create Permabeds, or permanent garden beds, with a two-wheel tractor and power ridger by following a few key guidelines.
Every farm has a spare bit of land, so why not convert these spaces into tallgrass prairie to support wildlife, grow edibles and enhance the ecosystem?
A cover crop in your garden over the winter will protect biodiversity, soil structure and fertility in ways that are obvious and beneficial.
Stephanie Cutmore from the Western Australia-based Indara Farms tells us how early permaculture planning sessions really paid off for the cut-flower operation.
In this excerpt from Dani Baker’s new book, “Home-Scale Forest Garden: How to Plan, Plant, and Tend a Resilient Edible Landscape,” you can learn how to plant, transplant and prune trees.
Working with nature to grow a forest garden means more diverse harvests for you—and greater protection against drought, pests and soil erosion.
An index guild of plants can help you observe details about plants as they grow, but how do these observations translate to growing success in the field? Let’s take a look.
Farm manager Andrew Rowles tells us how Wayward Lane Brewing plans to incorporate pawpaws, aronia berries and brambles into 2022’s beer selection.