The Story
For twenty years, I gardened the way everyone gardens. I dug. I weeded. I bought bags of mulch I dragged across a driveway in July. I watered tomatoes that died anyway. Every August I told myself the same lie: next year I'll be more organised.
Then I read a passage in Edible Forest Gardens about a food forest in Massachusetts that had been left alone for ten years. No weeding. No watering. No fertiliser. And it was producing more food than the tilled bed beside it.
I read it three times. Then I went outside and looked at my own garden — every straight row, every drooping tomato — and I understood: I wasn't gardening with nature. I was fighting it.
That was the week I started GrowPerma.
What We Do
GrowPerma delivers evidence-based permaculture guides for every scale — from a 6-square-foot balcony to a 60-acre homestead. We write like a smart friend who actually farms: knowledgeable but never academic, warm but never fluffy, practical first and always honest about trade-offs.
Our Promise
Every article ends with one bridge line: "This is one piece of the food forest you're building." Because that's what we're here for — to help you build a garden that works like a forest, one layer at a time.
Contact
Peter Vogel / peppereffect
Provinzialstraße 41, 46499 Hamminkeln, Germany
Email: hello@growperma.com