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    Gardener's hands sprinkling used coffee grounds onto a layered backyard compost pile of leaves and vegetable scraps
    10 Jul
    Soil & Composting

    Composting Coffee Grounds: Best Practices

    Peter Vogel
    A countertop electric food-scrap composter with scraps going in and dry ground output, on a kitchen counter with plants
    9 Jul
    Soil & Composting

    LOMI and Electric Composters: Do They Actually Compost?

    Peter Vogel
    A fruit tree guild with an apple tree underplanted by comfrey, chives, daffodils, and clover with bees on flowering herbs
    9 Jul
    Companion Planting

    Companion Planting Under Fruit Trees: Understory Combos

    Peter Vogel
    A productive small permaculture homestead with raised vegetable beds, fruit trees, hens, and a person carrying a basket of harvest
    9 Jul
    Permaculture Foundations

    Permaculture and Self-Sufficiency: Realistic Goals

    Peter Vogel
    Cutaway of garden soil beneath vegetables and French marigolds showing beneficial nematodes and a grub, natural pest control
    9 Jul
    Companion Planting

    Companion Planting for Beneficial Nematodes

    Peter Vogel
    A Johnson-Su compost bioreactor in a backyard garden, a tall mesh cylinder of dark compost on a pallet with vertical air channels
    9 Jul
    Soil & Composting

    Johnson-Su Bioreactor: Advanced Composting for Soil Biology

    Peter Vogel
    A gardener's hands holding two small piles of powdered mineral soil amendments, azomite and rock phosphate, over rich dark garden soil
    9 Jul
    Soil & Composting

    Azomite vs Rock Phosphate: Mineral Amendments Compared

    Peter Vogel
    A lush syntropic agroforestry garden with dense rows of tall biomass plants alternating with rows of vegetable crops
    8 Jul
    Syntropic Agriculture

    Syntropic Biomass Corridors: Design and Management

    Peter Vogel
    A split garden scene comparing a heap of dark homemade compost with bags of store-bought potting and garden soil, a gardener deciding between them
    8 Jul
    Soil & Composting

    Compost vs Store-Bought Soil: Is Homemade Better?

    Peter Vogel
    A gardener spreading pale garden lime over dark soil in a raised bed to raise soil pH, with a bag of lime and a soil test kit nearby
    8 Jul
    Soil & Composting

    How to Raise Soil pH: Lime and Alternatives

    Peter Vogel