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

Backyard herb and vegetable garden featuring a mature garden sage Salvia officinalis with silvery-green leaves and purple flower spikes surrounded by broccoli, cabbage, carrots, and rosemary with bees visiting the sage flowers
12 Jun

Companion Planting Sage: The Anti-Pest Herb

Peter Vogel
Panoramic view of Sepp Holzer's Krameterhof mountain farm in the Austrian Alps with stepped terraces, small ponds reflecting the sky, fruit trees on steep slopes between stone walls and snow-capped mountains in the background
12 Jun

Sepp Holzer's Mountain Permaculture: Alpine Food Production

Peter Vogel
Lush subtropical food forest in a Florida or southern Texas backyard with mango, avocado, and citrus canopy, banana and papaya understory, pineapples and herbs at ground level with a winding path
11 Jun

Food Forest in Zone 9: Hot-Climate Edible Landscaping

Peter Vogel
Dual chamber compost tumbler in a backyard garden setting with a homeowner turning the crank surrounded by vegetable beds and flowering plants
11 Jun

Best Compost Tumblers (Reviewed and Tested)

Peter Vogel
Lush syntropic cocoa farm in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest with tall emergent guapuruvu trees, bananas, cocoa trees bearing red and orange pods, and ground covers in multiple canopy layers
11 Jun

Syntropic Cocoa Farming: Regenerating Tropical Landscapes

Peter Vogel
Backyard gardener kneeling beside a freshly dug 12-inch test hole filling it with water from a watering can to perform a soil drainage perc test with a ruler for measurement
11 Jun

Soil Drainage Test: How to Check Before You Plant

Peter Vogel
Backyard raised bed garden with healthy spinach plants in dappled shade beneath pole beans and sweet corn with strawberries and radishes nearby
10 Jun

Companion Planting Spinach: Cool-Season Shade Partners

Peter Vogel
Backyard garden with a mature Meyer lemon tree surrounded by a circular companion planting guild of borage, calendula, nasturtium, white clover, and comfrey with bees visiting flowers
10 Jun

Companion Planting Citrus Trees in Warm Climates

Peter Vogel
Backyard garden scene with a large black walnut tree showing healthy lawn beneath it on one side and wilted yellowing tomato plants on the other demonstrating juglone allelopathy
10 Jun

Allelopathy in the Garden: When Plants Inhibit Each Other

Peter Vogel