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Tour a Small Suburban Permaculture Site!

I’m very excited to be sharing this video with you today! In it, I take a tour of my students, Jamie and Niall’s, small suburban backyard. Jamie and Niall took my Resilient Homestead Program three years ago and have done an amazing job with their implementation plan, while also fitting in the birth of their […]

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Resilient Homestead Student Spotlight! – Becki

One thing you’ll discover when you learn more about permaculture is that it encompasses way more than just growing food. In my Resilient Homestead Program, I take my students through the design of their site, using a permaculture approach. But more than that, I’ve often found that the program has the added benefit of giving folks

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A Permaculture Site with over 100 Native Plant Species!

If I had to do it over again, I would have planted way more native species in our food forest. In the end, I got my native plant fix by converting my entire front yard into native and/or drought tolerant species (see video here) but when I was first installing my food forest, the popularity

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A Way to Practice Permaculture without a Garden – A Visit with Alissa LaChance from Dirt Rich Compost!

For those of you familiar with permaculture principles, Produce No Waste is such an important principle to practice in our communities. Whether it’s composting your kitchen scraps in your backyard, decreasing your use of single-use plastic and packaging, mending clothes, thrifting items or hosting repair cafes, there are countless ways in which to practice this

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Happy Little Accident in the Food Forest!

When stewarding food forests, I always like to remind my students and clients that a food forest, like a natural ecosystem, is dynamic. It evolves and changes over time. While your initial food forest design may act as guide to get you started, you’ll find that, as the system matures, some plants might outcompete others,

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

Spring is underway in Montana and even though there are still a couple feet of snow on the ground in my backyard, I’m starting the garden prep work in my greenhouse. In my video above, I discuss the steps I take to prep my greenhouse in the spring. Not only that but I cover why

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Greenhouse Soil-Building and Soil Rehabilitation Techniques

If you watched my last video about my Top 5 Lessons from this Season’s Garden, you may have seen that one of my lessons was that I needed to pay better attention to my greenhouse soil. As promised, here’s a video on how I am going to rehabilitate the soil in my greenhouse beds. I

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