Reading Time: 3 minutes Somewhere up the family tree, my forebears must have offended a hag coven or something… Behold our ancestral curse: The limestone bedrock. My land is in the mountainous part of Croatia, a region characterized by this particularly challenging landscape feature that has determined the destinies of many generations of farmers before me. On the one […]
Reading Time: 9 minutes Tall order? Read on and watch me *demo* it. Earlier this week, I showed you what designing the whole farm layout looks like, and now I’ll zoom in on one aspect: designing a food forest with swales. 5 minutes for Part I, 15 minutes for Part II, and DONE! Food forests, in the context of […]
Reading Time: 20 minutes When I was a kid, my brother and I used to enjoy the winter weather at my grandparents’ farm in the mountains. In a beautiful interplay of natural forces, throughout the winter and early spring we would play in half a meter of snow, walk on frozen lakes and then run from the floodwaters once […]
Reading Time: 18 minutes Grow 3-5X More Food with Less Maintenance Compared to Conventional Gardening We are going to cover a lot of ground in this post, so I put together a free package of resources that will help you implement what you learn in this post. Be sure to grab it before you leave! If you are wondering […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Whenever someone asks me to help them design their site, my inner designer says, “give me a topographic map of your site.” With a topographic map, I can feel the terrain and decipher what’s happening from a distance. I can see what the landscape looks like, how the water moves, where there’s a potential for […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is a powerful quote, and in this post, I will illustrate with examples from my property how to implement the ‘working with nature’ permaculture principle in practice. Here’s the thing… We spend most of our days on our permaculture properties, working and thinking about what we need to do. There are always plants to […]
Reading Time: 10 minutes Do you know what makes a permaculture property so unique? Well, it all comes down to the very heart of permaculture – the permaculture design. In contrast to conventional properties – i.e. homesteads, farms, or farmsteads, in permaculture, there is special emphasis on creating a masterplan for the site. This, when implemented, helps us be […]