This is my last day working full time on the garden! It has been such a journey and it’s incredible to see how far we’ve come from the...

The majority of flowering plants require animal pollinators such as bees, butterflies, birds, and bats to produce fruit and reproduce....

The last large section of the garden left to complete is the windbreak in the South-Western corner. Upon visiting the site for the first...

Food forests are generally one of the first things that come to mind at the word ‘permaculture’. They truly represent what it means to...

Now we had our concept plan and the beds outlined, but that was really only the beginning of the garden’s creation. It was finally time...

A good design is the essential foundation of a successful permaculture project. The design is where all of the principles, concepts, and...

This week was a historic one: we officially began planting! We planted our inaugural seedlings in a classic permaculture element called...

Sheet Mulching is a method of creating no-dig garden beds by layering compost materials to suppress weeds and grasses and improve the...

To prepare the land for planting, we decided from the beginning to follow the same process as UMass Amherst Permaculture (our...

Water is one of the most important resources in an ecosystem: everything depends on it, but it can also be extremely damaging. When...