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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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Last fall, I did a little bit of a renovation on my greenhouse soil. I had a few issues with spider mites and fusarium wilt and ended up adopting a few soil remediation strategies that you can see in this video here. In my video above, I give you an update on my greenhouse soil
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Last Spring, I had the chance to visit the Beacon Food Forest in Seattle and it was such an inspiration. If you’ve been following me for awhile, you know that food forest systems are one of my favorite ways to grow food. The more land we can put into perennial production the better, in my
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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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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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Hear why Karen decided to work with me and what she has accomplished since taking my Resilient Homestead Program! Karen shares that the Resilient Homestead Program allowed her to feel less overwhelmed and how beneficial having a mentor is when you embark on the design of your site. Since taking the program, Karen has put
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If you know something about permaculture, you know that it is guided by a set of ethics and principles. The principles, in particular, help you look at your land and your life through the lens of natural systems. One of the permaculture principles that I appreciate the most is “Self-regulate and Accept Feedback”. It is
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Hear what Erika has accomplished since taking my Resilient Homestead Program! In this video, Erika shares that the Resilient Homestead Program allowed her to get clear on her vision for her site, understand that slope on her property is actually a good feature, and made her think even more about how to make her site
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Hear the key takeaways that Brittney had from my Resilient Homestead Program and her successes so far with sheet mulching an area for her food forest, setting up her annual gardens, building a fence, hosting community farm days, and understanding that this work is a long term game (see pics below!). And this is only
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Enrollment for my Resilient Homestead Program is now open! After working with clients for over a decade, I believe this program is one of the most effective ways of moving out of overwhelm and into action with your site planning process. Through this 4-month online experience (with 1:1 and group elements), I help you develop a comprehensive site plan
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