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Evidence-based permaculture guides, companion planting charts, and sustainable gardening strategies.

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    Pencil illustration of a suburban backyard transformed into a layered permaculture food forest with fruit trees, berry bushes, herbs, and vegetables
    21 Jul
    Permaculture Foundations

    Toby Hemenway's Gaia's Garden: Book Summary and Key Ideas

    Peter Vogel
    A gardener turning over a tomato leaf to reveal whiteflies on the underside with marigolds and nasturtiums flowering in the vegetable bed behind
    20 Jul
    Companion Planting

    Companion Planting for Whitefly Control

    Peter Vogel
    A shaded food forest floor with inoculated shiitake logs on a rack and a wood chip bed of burgundy wine cap mushrooms under a fruit tree canopy
    20 Jul
    Food Forest

    Food Forest Mushrooms: Logs, Wood Chips, and Forest Floor

    Peter Vogel
    Vegetable garden foliage showing nutrient stress with yellowing between green veins on tomato and pepper leaves beside healthy dark green growth
    20 Jul
    Soil & Composting

    Micronutrient Deficiencies: Identify and Fix Them

    Peter Vogel
    A finished hugelkultur raised bed mound planted with squash, kale and nasturtiums cascading down its curved sides in a sunny backyard
    20 Jul
    Soil & Composting

    Hugelkultur Raised Beds: Step-by-Step Build Guide

    Peter Vogel
    Sea buckthorn shrub laden with dense clusters of bright orange berries along silvery thorny branches in autumn light
    20 Jul
    Food Forest

    Sea Buckthorn: Nitrogen-Fixing Food Forest Superstar

    Peter Vogel
    Bill Mollison-style portrait of an older bearded man in a bush hat standing in a layered Tasmanian food forest garden
    20 Jul
    Permaculture Foundations

    Bill Mollison's Legacy: The Father of Permaculture

    Peter Vogel
    Colored-pencil illustration of three backyard compost bins: a mesh ring, an enclosed bin, and a tumbler
    17 Jul
    Soil & Composting

    Best Compost Bin: Picks for Every Yard

    Peter Vogel
    Colored-pencil illustration of a broadfork standing in a freshly loosened garden bed
    17 Jul
    Soil & Composting

    Best Broadfork: Picks by Garden Size and Soil

    Peter Vogel
    Vigorous hardy kiwi vines climbing a wooden pergola in a food forest, heavy with hanging clusters of small green kiwi berries above layers of fruit trees
    17 Jul
    Food Forest

    Kiwi Vines in Food Forests: Hardy Varieties

    Peter Vogel