Permaculture musings
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
So don’t go by the book. Go by the garden. Learn what is there and how it fits into its community. Then fit yourself into that community.
Tag: gardening
What to grow in 2023?
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
So as I was already grousing about the pantry, I decided to review my garden plan for next year… and found it woefully inadequate.
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 5
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium.com
Hopefully I’ve convinced you to plant a fruit or nut tree or two in your yard. They can be tucked into a garden, only need pruning twice a year, and they give you pretty flowers, nice fall colors, and lots and lots of food.
From a Dystopian Present to a Gaian Future
By Tom Ellis, Gaianism
So…imagine that somewhere, or in many places at once, a self-replicating Gaia movement were to start, whose adherents call ourselves, simply, “Gaians.”
A Garden of Wonder… Still
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
That gardening works always takes me by surprise. I put these hard and cold and seemingly inert nuggets into dirt and, wondrously, plants happen.
Skills, Plain and Simple- Microclimates and Season Extenders
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium
We are at the mercy of our climate, which is as it should be. Nevertheless, we have ways to push our seasons a bit, and most take very little effort and are pretty cheap and easy to do.
In Rotation
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
So this is my pest control toolkit: rotation and companion interplanting. It works as well as the chemicals do, and in many ways it’s more reliable than the chemicals — because pests can adapt to the chemicals...
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 4
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium
Let’s talk about the big question of the year: “How much do I grow to feed my family for the year?”
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 3
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium
Vegetable gardens in this country are largely seen as a “summer thing”, and I believe this is because the crops people associate with vegetable gardens are mainly summer growing.
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 2
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium
The bottom line is this: anything you grow now is something you no longer have to buy or worry about finding in a food store. Things are not going to get better, no matter what the ads say.
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 1
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium
Can I convince you how miraculously cool seeds are? They are a tiny packet of genetic information, for nothing more than some warmth, light (usually), and some water, will unfurl in time and produce a plant that will net you so much food in volume, that your return on investment would be astronomical.
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food: An Introduction
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium
Last year, when things really got dodgy and this year looked to be the start of things becoming terrible for the near future, I bit the bullet. I stayed home to raise the food we would eat.