Five Success Strategies for Your First Orchard

An orchard in your backyard – think of it!  A virtual grocery aisle, providing a ready crop of fruit and livestock to provide your family with healthy, nutritious, free food, enough to enjoy in season and put up for the cold months.  This was what our friend and guest instructor, veteran orchardist Stefan Sobkowiak had […]

Build Rich Soil For Your Food Forest with Cover Crops

In our last blog, we looked at how water and soil interact in assuring the success of your permaculture property. In this post, we’re going to take a look at how you can revive the soil ecosystem of a depleted suburban lawn as the first step toward creating your food forest. When we began creating our […]