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Peter Vogel

Peter Vogel is the founder of GrowPerma, bringing together evidence-based gardening advice with permaculture principles. When he's not writing about companion planting or soil health, he's ...

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    A US backyard garden being transformed into a carbon-farming landscape with fruit trees, biochar, cover crops, and compost bin
    25 Jun

    Carbon Farming in Your Backyard

    Peter Vogel
    A US backyard compost bin in summer with orange peels and lemon rinds being added alongside cardboard, dry leaves, eggshells, and coffee grounds
    25 Jun

    Composting Citrus Peels: Myth vs Reality

    Peter Vogel
    Split-screen US backyard comparison: tilled garden with exposed soil and rototiller versus no-till garden with thick mulch around vegetables
    25 Jun

    No-Till vs Tilling: What's Best for Soil Health?

    Peter Vogel
    A US backyard garden with chop-and-drop mulch of comfrey, borage, and yarrow spread around tomato and pepper plants
    25 Jun

    Chop and Drop for Soil Building: Practical Guide

    Peter Vogel
    Layered backyard food forest on a US homestead in summer with apple tree, comfrey, clover, borage, and pollinators
    25 Jun

    Companion Planting for Food Forests: Understory Strategies

    Peter Vogel
    Cross-section of a syntropic agroforestry system with multiple canopy layers showing CO2 flowing from atmosphere down through leaves, trunks, and into soil, with mycorrhizal networks underground
    25 Jun

    Carbon Sequestration in Syntropic Systems

    Peter Vogel
    Backyard vegetable garden with a tall border of pink, white, magenta, and orange cosmos along the edge, with tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers in front; honeybees, hoverflies, and a monarch butterfly visiting the cosmos
    24 Jun

    Companion Planting Cosmos: Beneficial Insect Attractors

    Peter Vogel
    Backyard straw bale garden in mid-summer with five golden straw bales planted with tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers, drip irrigation visible
    24 Jun

    Straw Bale Gardening: Composting While You Grow

    Peter Vogel
    A split-landscape illustration showing degraded bare red soil on the left and a lush syntropic food forest with multiple canopy layers and a flowing spring on the right
    24 Jun

    From Degraded Land to Abundance: Syntropic Restoration

    Peter Vogel
    US Northeast cold-climate food forest in late summer with apple, chestnut, pawpaw, and aronia in production
    24 Jun

    Northeast Food Forest: Cold Climate Fruit and Nut

    Peter Vogel