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

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    A multi-row living windbreak of conifers, deciduous trees, and shrubs sheltering a homestead garden from wind across rolling farmland
    17 Jul
    Permaculture Foundations

    Windbreaks and Shelterbelts: Permaculture Wind Management

    Peter Vogel
    Split comparison of soil preparation: a person using a broadfork by hand on the left and a rototiller churning soil on the right
    16 Jul
    Soil & Composting

    Broad Fork vs Rototiller: Soil Preparation Compared

    Peter Vogel
    A shady woodland food forest understory with currant and gooseberry bushes, ferns, a young pawpaw, and hostas dappled with shafts of sunlight
    16 Jul
    Food Forest

    Food Forest Plants for Shade: The Understory Specialists

    Peter Vogel
    A layered food forest designed to resist deer, with aromatic herbs, elderberry and currant shrubs, a caged young fruit tree, and a deer at the edge
    16 Jul
    Food Forest

    Deer-Resistant Food Forest Plants

    Peter Vogel
    Regenerated dryland farm in Portugal's Alentejo with contour swales, cork oaks, terraces, and a pond among golden Mediterranean hills
    16 Jul
    Permaculture Around the World

    Permaculture in Portugal: European Dryland Regeneration

    Peter Vogel
    Summer garden using companion planting against Japanese beetles, with beans and roses interplanted with catnip, garlic, and chives
    16 Jul
    Companion Planting

    Companion Planting for Japanese Beetle Control

    Peter Vogel
    Bird's-eye pencil illustration of a permaculture homestead with a house at the center ringed by kitchen garden, orchard, pasture, pond, and woodlot
    16 Jul
    Permaculture Foundations

    Permaculture Homestead Design: Whole-Property Planning

    Peter Vogel
    Lush layered food forest with a passion fruit vine climbing a tree and trellis, ripe purple passion fruits and a passion flower in bloom
    15 Jul
    Food Forest

    Passion Fruit in Food Forests: Tropical Vine Layer

    Peter Vogel
    Flat-lay of essential syntropic agriculture hand tools: a machete, bypass pruning shears, folding saw, loppers, broadfork, hori-hori knife, and gloves
    15 Jul
    Syntropic Agriculture

    Syntropic Agriculture Tools and Equipment

    Peter Vogel
    Close-up of hands performing a whip-and-tongue graft on a fruit tree with a grafting knife, scion, rootstock, and grafting tape
    15 Jul
    Permaculture Foundations

    Grafting Fruit Trees: Advanced Permaculture Propagation

    Peter Vogel