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Week 9: Windbreak Design
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...
Week 8: Food Forest Design
Food forests are generally one of the first things that come to mind at the word ‘permaculture’. They truly represent what it means to...
Week 6: Design
A good design is the essential foundation of a successful permaculture project. The design is where all of the principles, concepts, and...
Week 5: Herb Spiral
This week was a historic one: we officially began planting! We planted our inaugural seedlings in a classic permaculture element called...
Week 4: Cardboard
Sheet Mulching is a method of creating no-dig garden beds by layering compost materials to suppress weeds and grasses and improve the...
Week 3: Compost
To prepare the land for planting, we decided from the beginning to follow the same process as UMass Amherst Permaculture (our...
Week 2: Swales
Water is one of the most important resources in an ecosystem: everything depends on it, but it can also be extremely damaging. When...
Week 1: Preparation
This week we officially began working on the garden. Our first step was unfortunately destructive: our future garden site was littered...
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