Permaculture

Sep 30

PERMACULTURE: Its Twelve Principles

By Mary ‘Klibs’ Dralle, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2024. Permaculture's Twelve Principles Bill Molison, the father of Permaculture,...

Aug 1

PERMACULTURE: Natural Insect Pest Control

By Mary 'Klibs' Dralle, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2024. Natural Insect Pest Control It is that time of the year when pest insect...

May 31

PERMACULTURE: Compost Tea

By Mary ‘Klibs’ Dralle, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2024. Compost Tea In Permaculture, we use three natural components to keep the soil...

Mar 31

PERMACULTURE: Planting Outside The Garden Box

By Mary 'Klibs' Dralle, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2024. All photos are courtesy of the author except the garden rack by Dirty Buffalo...

Feb 1

PERMACULTURE: Repurposing Household Water

By Mary 'Klibs' Dralle, for Let’s Talk Plants! February 2024. Repurposing Household Water The second most important element on Earth is...

Nov 1, 2023

PERMACULTURE: Urban Carbon Farming

By Mary 'Klibs' Dralle, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2023. Editor’s note: Please welcome Mary 'Klibs' Dralle, the new permaculture...

Sep 30, 2023

PERMACULTURE: Reducing Chemicals In Your Yard And Home

By Diane C. Kennedy, for Let’s Talk Plants! October 2023. Editor’s note: This is the last Permaculture column written by Diane Kennedy...

Jul 31, 2023

PERMACULTURE: Five Great Tools For Gardeners

By Diane Kennedy, Finch Frolic Garden Permaculture, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2023. 1. Mesh Netting Instead of Bird Netting This is a...

Apr 3, 2023

PERMACULTURE: Planting In Zones

By Diane Kennedy for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2023. Planting in Zones Permaculture design arranges types of plants in zones. You’ve...

Feb 1, 2023

PERMACULTURE: Peat-Free - Why And How?

By Diane Kennedy, for Let’s Talk Plants! February 2023. Peat-Free, Why and How? Any gardener is familiar with peat moss, made of the...

Dec 1, 2022

PERMACULTURE: Overwatering

By Diane C. Kennedy, for Let’s Talk Plants! December 2022. Overwatering One of the largest issues with keeping a landscape alive is...

Sep 30, 2022

PERMACULTURE: The Breakdown On Mulch

By Diane C. Kennedy, for Let’s Talk Plants, October 2022. The Breakdown On Mulch Mulch and compost are different. Compost is organic...

Jul 31, 2022

PERMACULTURE: Poison-Free Animal Control

By Diane Kennedy, of Finch Frolic Garden Permaculture, for Let’s Talk Plants! August 2022. Poison-Free Animal Control Every poisoned...

May 31, 2022

PERMACULTURE: Roses Without Chemicals

By Diane C. Kennedy, for Let’s Talk Plants! June 2022. Roses Without Chemicals Roses are one of the most abused ornamental plants in...

Apr 1, 2022

PERMACULTURE: Loving Nature To Death

By Diane Kennedy, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2022. With the best of intentions, many people who love the natural world can also be...

Feb 1, 2022

PERMACULTURE: Replanting the Vanishing Treescape

By Diane C. Kennedy. Western Sycamore, Platanus racemosa. https://calscape.org/Platanus-racemosa-(Western-Sycamore) The West is coming...

Dec 1, 2021

FINCH FROLIC GARDEN PERMACULTURE: Three Reasons

By Diane C. Kennedy, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2021. An excellent permaculture method of evaluating your landscape is to use a...

Sep 30, 2021

PERMACULTURE: Prepare For Water Harvest Now!

By Diane Kennedy for Let's Talk Plants! October 2021. One inch of rain falling on one acre in an hour is 27,154 gallons of pure, free,...

Jul 31, 2021

PERMACULTURE: The Ethics of Permaculture

By Diane Kennedy. Bill Mollison and David Holmgren coined the term permaculture in the 1970’s, and with the term they defined the...

Mar 1, 2021

PERMACULTURE: Composting for Everyone

Turning organic materials into rich soil for food production isn’t a mystery. Organic stuff is eaten by creatures of diminishing sizes, poop

Jan 1, 2021

PERMACULTURE: What is a Plant Guild?

Permaculture encompasses methods of gardening, horticulture and agriculture based on observations of nature. While that sounds very prosaic,

Nov 1, 2020

PERMACULTURE: Hügelkultur - Burying Wood

Hügelkultur (hoo-gull culture) has ancient origins in the mountains of Germany, where warmth is treasured and rain is frequent. There they

Aug 31, 2020

PERMACULTURE: Be a Soil Farmer

Permaculturists are soil farmers first and plant growers second. All the world’s wealth is in its soil and the real gold is the microorganis

Jun 30, 2020

PERMACULTURE: Vertical Space

Training vining plants up trellises is nothing new; using trellises and walls can at least double your growing space. Now as more people are