Perma-culture: Healthy Food without the Cost of Our Environment

   So what is perma-culture? I chose to add a dash to the word, as I feel it should be a free word.  It's like the alchemist's stone of farming.  Throughout the years I've heard of it from time to time, but could never point a finger and say "There"!  Personally, I see it as closely related to food forestry.  I'll give some examples in my small garden.

   As you see here there are flowering broccoli, Swiss chard and a few lettuce left.  This bed was planted around march.  After around 3 months of lettuce and Swiss chard the broccoli finished.  Around this time I switched over to a bed with more sun.  I added heavy mulch, almost covering the lettuce(which was flowering), mostly stopped watering and left it.  Now the days have shortened and we had a few rains, I lightly weeded it and added more compost.  The Swiss chard is growing back from seed, it is also a well composted raised bed that remained mostly weed free through the summer.

   Sustainability is an important factor here.  Placing the bed in partial shade, I get slower growth.  By taking the time to understand plants needs, I can provide for them; without needing to be there all the time.  Which leads up to my next post on organics and why they are important.  

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