Skip to content
Free Planting Guide
Free Planting Guide

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 ...

All Soil & Composting Companion Planting Permaculture Foundations Food Forest Syntropic Agriculture Permaculture Around the World
    Pencil-crayon illustration of a curated permaculture library on a wooden desk with stacks of well-loved books including Mollison's Designers' Manual, Holmgren's Principles and Pathways, Hemenway's Gaia's Garden, and Crawford's Creating a Forest Garden, with a reading lamp, coffee mug, and an open notebook of permaculture sketches
    6 May
    Permaculture Foundations

    Permaculture Books: 15 Essential Reads for Every Level

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon illustration of a permaculture design certificate workshop with diverse adult students gathered around a hand-drawn site map showing zones, water flow, and food forest design, with a teacher pointing to features and Mollison's Designers' Manual on the table
    5 May
    Permaculture Foundations

    PDC Course Worth It? What a Permaculture Design Certificate Teaches

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon illustration of fall garlic planting bed in late October with rows of cloves being tucked into soil under straw mulch, companion strawberries and overwintering brassicas at the bed edges
    5 May
    Companion Planting

    What to Plant With Garlic: Fall Companion Planting

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon illustration of a temperate food forest shrub layer in late summer with blueberry, raspberry, blackberry, currant and elderberry bushes under a canopy of apple and chestnut trees
    5 May
    Food Forest

    Best Berry Bushes for Food Forests: The Shrub Layer

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon illustration of a temperate climate syntropic agroforestry system showing chestnut, walnut, apple, hazelnut, comfrey, and Jerusalem artichoke arranged across canopy layers in late summer light
    4 May
    Syntropic Agriculture

    Syntropic Agriculture in Temperate Climates: Is It Possible?

    Peter Vogel
    A bright modern apartment kitchen with three composting setups visible — a stylish bokashi bucket, a worm bin, and a sleek electric composter — and a young urban gardener scraping vegetable trimmings into the bokashi bucket
    4 May
    Soil & Composting

    How to Compost in an Apartment: No-Yard Methods

    Peter Vogel
    A homesteader's backyard with two composting setups side by side — a steaming hot compost pile being turned with a pitchfork on the left, and a quiet cold compost heap covered in autumn leaves on the right
    4 May
    Soil & Composting

    Hot Composting vs Cold Composting: Which Is Right for You?

    Peter Vogel
    A homesteader's productive backyard vegetable garden in late spring with a wooden table holding three bins of organic NPK amendments — blood meal, bone meal, and kelp meal — beside a 10-10-10 fertilizer bag and a soil-test report
    1 May
    Soil & Composting

    NPK Explained: Understanding Plant Nutrition

    Peter Vogel
    A young temperate-zone syntropic strip garden in late spring with stratified layers — mulberry, currants, hazelnut, comfrey, and placeholder sunflowers — and a gardener kneeling at the edge with hand pruners
    1 May
    Syntropic Agriculture

    How to Start a Syntropic Garden: First Steps

    Peter Vogel
    A young diverse temperate food forest in late summer with mature apple and mulberry canopy, pawpaw understorey, currant and elderberry shrub layer, and strawberries spreading at ground level — a young gardener walking the edge with a basket of mixed fruit
    1 May
    Food Forest

    Best Food Forest Trees for Temperate Climates

    Peter Vogel