Secrets for a Thriving Food Forest: Wildlife Management Strategies
We work hard on developing a lush food forest in anticipation of bountiful harvests. While we enjoy the process of...
The Lost Secrets of Abundance: Companion Planting and Guilds
Companion planting and tree guilds are powerful tools for creating resilient and productive food forests. Nature already has a system...
How to Start a Food Forest: Essential First Steps
What is all the fuss about food forests? What even makes something a food forest? Food forests are organic edible...
Nature’s Growth Rhythm: Why Plants Sleep, Creep, and Leap
“Sleep, Creep, and Leap” is often used by gardeners to describe the development of plants over multiple seasons. This three-phase cycle — commonly associated with perennials, trees, and shrubs — illustrates how plants establish themselves gradually before experiencing significant growth.
Food Forest Site Prep: Improving Soil
Our sandy soil here in north-central Florida creates gardening challenges. It can’t store nutrients or retain water and there is...
What is Permaculture?
It’s a worldview and a lifestyle. It’s about caring for people, the earth and the future. To put it simply, permaculture works with nature instead of against it.
