Tag: permaculture

  • Minimum effort, maximum reward

    Minimum effort, maximum reward

    When I was a teenager I hated cleaning leaf lettuce freshly picked from the garden. Somehow this task was assigned to me at the time of day when the garden plants were wilting in the heat. The greens I had to deal with for the evening meal’s salad were limp. If I had picked in…

  • Why Permaculture Ain’t Just About Gardening

    Why Permaculture Ain’t Just About Gardening

    What an easy solution to many problems in life – look to nature. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! Permaculture definitely incorporates a lot of ideas and literature on growing food, but to narrow the practice down to a type of gardening is a mistake. Permaculture is about much more, from streamlining practices to designing…

  • See How Easily You Can Create an Edible Landscape

    See How Easily You Can Create an Edible Landscape

    15 years ago we covered our front yard grass with 2 dump truck loads of soil. That was considered a strange thing to do back then, but times have changed. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! Simply put: We can’t eat lawn. When I found out that lawn is the largest crop in the United…

  • The real value of urban farming. (Hint: It’s not always the food.)

    The real value of urban farming. (Hint: It’s not always the food.)

    I’ve never stopped to think of the community benefits associated with a garden plot. Although, I smile to think of the days when I could send my kids to the front yard garden for a snack. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! During World War II, millions of Americans planted “victory gardens” in their backyards,…

  • Permaculture for Urban Homes and Small Spaces

    Permaculture for Urban Homes and Small Spaces

    “The problem is the solution”, isn’t that the ultimate creative statement? I love it, this notion that creativity has a role to play in everything we do, even growing a small garden. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! What if we apply this principle to a challenge that many of us are all too familiar…

  • What is Permaculture?

    What is Permaculture?

    My Mother seemed to live by the ethics of permaculture, so much so that I find it strange to read the definition. It begs the question, why bother to try and grow any other way? Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! Permaculture is a scientific and artistic method for designing human settlements to meet humanity’s…