Kitchen Garden

GARDENING WITH MINIMAL DISTURBANCE

Permaculture is a design approach inspired by patterns and observations in nature to help us create resilient and productive gardens, farms and communities. The goal is to work with nature rather than against it, and permaculture would be the most accurate description of how I approach growing my own food.

One of the most important happenings in the gardening world of recent years has been the rise of no-dig gardening. The idea of gardening without digging has been around since at least the 1940s; gardeners and authors Albert Guest and Frederic Charles King both released no-dig books in this decade –

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