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“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, […]

Early in the spring of your gardening life, when your herbs and veggies are still small, there’s a certain parent-like charm about trotting around with a watering can or hose, tenderly pouring a life-giving puddle around their little roots.  But as your garden grows and your water bills mount up, you quickly realize: there has […]