Yesterday I wrote about the inside work done in permaculture zones. Today we're focusing on the principles of permaculture and how they...

Permaculture is a design system started in Australia, originally for permanent agriculture and homesteads, but now the principles have spre...

We are the very happy owners of six new chickens. Kate from Beautiful Chickens brought them to us yesterday afternoon. We had the new wing ...

It's been a long, dry summer here. The temperatures haven't been nearly as high as those down south, we've had only two very ho...

Hanno at the produce store. He's pointing out a little chicken tractor. The plan was to go out for lunch at the surf club and to ...

I want to share a link to an interesting program that networks local growers and local food eaters together based on proximity. It's c...

I want to move our dependence further away from the shops and closer to food we grow ourselves or find locally. I am hoping to grow enough ...

We have seven chickens left. The last of our old girls died late last year and now, even though we miss those old characters, we've sta...

Frugal vegetable gardening starts with seeds. If they're seeds you've collected yourself from last year's crop, that's even...