By Mary ‘Klibs’ Dralle, for Let’s Talk Plants! February 2025. Wix stock photo of a rose guild.  Would Roses by Any Other Name, Taste as...

By Mary 'Klibs' Dralle, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2024. Creating Small Scale Fish Scale Swales   This article was inspired after a...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

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

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

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