Resources - Broken Ground Permaculture

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Whether you're a beginner gardener, need ideas for what to grow in your cold climate garden, don't know where to start with designing your homestead or simply need some inspiration, check out my resources below.

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How to Plant a Bare Root Fruit Tree

Recent posts

From Overwhelm to Implementation – Why Heather took my Resilient Homestead Program

A Transformative Experience in the UK!

Cultural Emergence with Looby Macnamara: Widening our Understanding of Permaculture

Gardening 101

My Top Three Gardening Tools

Insight and Inspiration for the Daunted Gardener

5 Steps for Putting your Vegetable Gardens to Bed

Composting 101

Five Tips to Get Your Garden Started - Soil and Seeds

How to start seeds indoors

My Vegetable Planting Calendar for Cold Climates

My Top 5 Seed Company Recommendations

Help! Why is my compost pile not doing anything?

Vermicomposting - A great cold climate composting strategy!

Garden Tips

Pest and Weed Management Strategies

Early Season Seed-Saving Tips

Gardening in small spaces

Attracting Pollinators to Your Garden

Vole Damage? Here are some strategies...

Using chickens in a permaculture garden

How I Use My Chickens to Prep New Garden Beds

Top 3 Tips for Fruit Tree Pruning

The herb spiral - a great garden idea for kids!

March Greenhouse and Garden Tasks

Food Forest Tips

5 Steps to Designing your Cold Climate Food Forest

A Visit to Seattle's Beacon Food Forest!

Happy Little Accident in the Food Forest!

Tour of our Food Forest!

Growing Grapes in Cold Climates

5 Great Berries to Grow in Cold Climates

Tour of our Cold Climate Food Forest!

Edible Backyard Blitz

Two Common Mistakes in Planting Food Forests and How to Prevent Them

My apple tree guild

Greenhouse Tips

An irrigation method that saves times, water, and money

Early greens in the garden - maximizing a small greenhouse

April Greenhouse Tour!

Q&A with Kareen - How to deal with an overheating greenhouse and tips for growing tomatoes in cold climates!

Don't want to heat your greenhouse? Here's what to do instead...

June Greenhouse Tour!

Mid-June Greenhouse Tour

Greenhouse Soil-Building and Soil Rehabilitation Techniques

Spring Greenhouse Soil Prep and the Importance of Soil Moisture/Rainwater

Greenhouse Soil Rehabilitation Update and Tour!

Permaculture Design

Rainwater Harvesting in Action!

My Pear Tree Guild

Interested in Flower Farming? Hear from my student Adrienne from Little Button Farm!

Be an architect of your garden (and your life)

Resilient Homestead Student Spotlight! - Karleen from Wild Wiggins Homestead

From Overwhelm to Implementation - Why Heather took my Resilient Homestead Program

Swale System in Action!

5 Steps to Designing your Cold Climate Food Forest

Resilient Homestead Student Spotlight! - Mariah from Local Earth Studio

Two Common Mistakes in Planting Food Forests and How to Prevent Them

What to Grow in Your Cold Climate Garden

Why you should grow fava beans

My Pear Tree Guild

Making your own garden fertilizer

Attracting Pollinators to Your Garden

How much should you grow?

What to plant when...

Getting perpetual greens in your garden...with barely any work!

Top 5 Perennial Tea Plants for Cold Climates

Late Fall Garden: What's still Growing

What we're still eating from last year's garden

Food Forest & Greenhouse Tours

End of Season Garden Tour

Tour of our Cold Climate Food Forest!

Balcony Garden!

Greenhouse garden bed tour

Swale System in Action!

April Greenhouse Tour!

Late Fall Garden: What's still Growing

My apple tree guild

Top 4 Most Effective Groundcovers in a Food Forest

Tour of My Herb Spiral Polyculture!

Q&A with Kareen

Q&A with Kareen - How to deal with an overheating greenhouse and tips for growing tomatoes in cold climates!

Q&A with Kareen - How do I amend my garden soil?

Q&A with Kareen - Permaculture pitfalls, leaf mulch, and greywater systems

Q&A with Kareen - Top 10 Crops to Feed a Family

Q&A with Kareen - How to Keep Deer from Eating your Garden or Food Forest

Q&A with Kareen - How do pill bugs fit into a healthy garden?

Q&A with Kareen - Cold climate pear varieties, pear preservation and what to do about codling moths

Q&A with Kareen - What native plants grow in a cold climate?

Q&A with Kareen - How do I prevent bitter cucumbers?

Q&A with Kareen - What to do about flea beetles...