microorganisms

“Produce No Waste.” This core permaculture principle sounds like a green ideal to reduce pollution, yes? But that’s just the beginning: this principle also reminds us that nature transforms its waste products and dead matter into living soil…and we can, too.  Picture a wild forest: its floor is thick with dead leaves, branches, rotting logs, […]

Cruise through suburbia one spring or fall day, and you’ll see them: rows upon rows of paper bags of leaves, lawn clippings, and yard waste, waiting for municipal pickup. Ironically,  the hard-working homeowners who fill them often follow up with a garden store run for bags upon bags of commercially-prepared compost. Bags of yard waste […]