by Daisy | Apr 24, 2014 | Garden, Permaculture
The more I guild, the more lonely the unguilded trees seem to me. In particular, my Asian pear was looking very bare. Selecting plants for a guild can be pretty simple or pretty involved, whichever way you lean. I can go either way depending on what free resources I...
by Daisy | Apr 7, 2014 | Garden, Permaculture
In permaculture, fruit tree guilds are a way of creating a miniature sustainable ecosystem in your yard. Instead of sticking a fruit tree in the ground in the middle of a field and watering and fertilizing and spraying it conventionally, a guild is humans mimicking...
by Daisy | Nov 29, 2011 | Garden, Permaculture
After I started reading Toby Hemenway’s book, Gaia’s Garden, I decided I had to have a mandala garden. A mandala garden is a form of keyhole garden, which you may be more familiar with. For those of you completely new to the concept, let me explain. A...
by Daisy | Nov 18, 2011 | Garden, Permaculture
This is the tail end of the season to sow cover crops. I planted the mandala garden in a mixed cover crop at the beginning of November, and a last ditch second crop on top of my hugelkultur bed last weekend. On top of all the reasons to grow cover crops, I have a...
by Daisy | Nov 16, 2011 | Garden, Permaculture
First, of course, what in the world am I talking about? Hugelkultur (from the German, hill culture) is a method of building a garden bed. It hails from the permaculture world and means building a bed either by piling up wood and branches on the surface of the soil or...
by Ivory Soap | Jun 4, 2009 | Garden, Permaculture
picture by Julie Interplanting sounds fancy, but it just means planting different things together. Like, instead of planting only corn, you planted spinach in between the corn stalks. And the corn shades heat-hating spinach from the hot summer sun. That would be the...
