Daily Archives: December 18, 2009

Episode-340- The How, What and Why of Permaculture

We haven’t done a really deep gardening or permaculture show for a while, so I figured it was a good subject to make us think about the coming warm days of spring while the cold days of winter are just setting in.

Tune in today as we discuss…

  • What is permaculture – beyound the typical deffinition
  • What permaculture is not and misconceptions about it and the people behind it
  • Why we should practice permaculture
  • The Seven Layers of Permaculture
    • The High Canopy
    • The Low Tree
    • Shrub
    • herbaceous
    • rhizome
    • cover crops
    • vertical climbers
  • The Five Zones of Permaculture
  • Using chickens, rabbits, geese, ducks and worms to do the work for you
  • Seven rules of permaculture that fly in the face of “conventional wisdom”
    • Slopes are wonderful for growing food
    • Don’t compost everything
    • Clay soil is your friend
    • Don’t till your soil ever
    • Let plants die
    • Don’t be tidy and use strait edges and rows
    • Attract insects
    • Grow weeds

Resources for today’s show…

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