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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Tour of our Food Forest!

Recent posts

A Visit to Seattle’s Beacon Food Forest!

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

Greenhouse Soil-Building and Soil Rehabilitation Techniques

Gardening 101

Composting 101

How to start seeds indoors

My Vegetable Planting Calendar for Cold Climates

My Top 5 Seed Company Recommendations

Vermicomposting - A great cold climate composting strategy!

Making your own garden fertilizer

Being a water-wise gardener

To till or not to till?

How much should you grow?

What to plant when...

Garden Tips

Top 5 Takeaways from this Growing Season

My Top 3 Methods for Preserving Tomatoes

Pest and Weed Management Strategies

Gardening in small spaces

Attracting Pollinators to Your Garden

Using chickens in a permaculture garden

The herb spiral - a great garden idea for kids!

Beating the Fall Frost

It's garlic planting time!

Saving seeds while making salsa...

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

Looking to the Future: Permaculture and Resilient Life Practices

Growing Grapes in Cold Climates

Tour of our Cold Climate Food Forest!

Permaculture and Climate Change

A Five Minute Project to Cut Down on your Energy Use!

Using chickens in a permaculture garden

Edible Backyard Blitz

Rainwater Harvesting in Action!

Be an architect of your garden (and your life)

Swale System in Action!

What to Grow in Your Cold Climate Garden

Top 5 Medicinal Plants to Grow in Cold Climates

My Top 3 Methods for Preserving Tomatoes

5 Great Berries to Grow in Cold Climates

Why you should grow fava beans

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

Food Forest & Greenhouse Tours

Tour of our Food Forest!

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

Swale System in Action!

April Greenhouse Tour!

Late Fall Garden: What's still Growing

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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