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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Resilient Homestead Student Spotlight! - Brittney from Churn Creek Farm

Recent posts

Resilient Homestead Student Spotlight! – Karen

Top 5 Lessons from this Season’s Garden

Resilient Homestead Student Spotlight! – Erika

Gardening 101

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!

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

Making your own garden fertilizer

Garden Tips

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

Top Ten Tips for Gardening on a Budget

Top 5 Takeaways from this Growing Season

Want those tomatoes to ripen?

My Top 3 Methods for Preserving Tomatoes

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...

Food Forest Tips

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

Top 4 Most Effective Groundcovers in a Food Forest

Top 3 Tips for Fruit Tree Pruning

How to Plant a Bare Root Fruit Tree

Greenhouse Tips

Tour of My Greenhouse in July

Greenhouse Tips and Tricks

Greenhouse garden bed tour

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

Permaculture Design

My apple tree guild

Resilient Homestead Student Spotlight! - Karen

My Top 3 Questions to Ask When Designing your Homestead

Looking to the Future: Permaculture and Resilient Life Practices

Raising Chickens in Cold Climates

Growing Grapes in Cold Climates

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

Tour of our Cold Climate Food Forest!

What is Permaculture?

Permaculture and Climate Change

What to Grow in Your Cold Climate Garden

Raising Chickens in Cold Climates

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

Top 5 Medicinal Plants to Grow in Cold Climates

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

My Top 3 Methods for Preserving Tomatoes

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

5 Great Berries to Grow in Cold Climates

How I Established My Native Wildflower Garden

Why you should grow fava beans

My Pear Tree Guild

Food Forest & Greenhouse Tours

June Greenhouse Tour!

How I Established My Native Wildflower Garden

Tour of our Food Forest!

My Pear Tree Guild

Tour of My Greenhouse in July

Tour of My Kitchen Garden

End of Season Garden Tour

Tour of our Cold Climate Food Forest!

Balcony Garden!

Greenhouse garden bed tour

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...

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