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Articles and Resources

Your garden should be a multilayer food forest
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/25/garden-multilayer-forest-biodiverse-tom-massey-rhs

European Permaculture Forum
https://www.cultivatedwithcare.org/european-permaculture-online-forum

Hugelkultur
https://www.diynatural.com/hugelkultur-raised-garden-beds/

Leave the Leaves!
https://xerces.org/blog/leave-the-leaves

The Problem with Honey Bees
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-honey-bees/

Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Requires Only a Few Hours of Work Per Month
https://returntonow.net/2020/10/12/forest-garden-with-500-kinds-of-food-requires-only-a-few-hours-of-work-per-month/

See How Easily You Can Create an Edible Landscape
https://www.tenthacrefarm.com/see-how-easily-you-can-create-an-edible-landscape/

30+ PERENNIAL VEGETABLES WE GROW ON OUR PERMACULTURE HOMESTEAD
https://practicalselfreliance.com/perennial-vegetables/

Get The Lead Out: How To Test Your Soil For Contaminants
https://gardencollage.com/wander/gardens-parks/get-the-lead-out-how-to-test-your-soil-for-contaminants/

Is Roundup Active in Dirt?
https://homeguides.sfgate.com/roundup-active-dirt-73143.html

Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/

PLANT NATIVE GROUND COVERS & MAKE AMERICA GREEN AGAIN
https://choosenatives.org/articles/plant-native-ground-covers-make-america-green/

Foodscaping: A “New” Way To Create A Garden
https://gardenculturemagazine.com/foodscaping-a-new-way-to-create-a-garden/

Food is Free
https://youtu.be/KlC-4MgfICU

Foodscaping, Earthships & Food Forest Inspiration
https://pennybutler.com/foodscaping-inspiration/

English farmers turning to cultivating nuts as climate heats
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/09/english-farmers-turning-to-cultivating-nuts-as-climate-heats

Permaculture: Build Your Own Food Forest
https://www.hobbyfarms.com/permaculture-food-forest-farm/

The Community Food Forest Handbook
https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-community-food-forest-handbook/

How to Grow a Food Forest
How to Grow a Food Forest

“Spending time outside to soak in the sun rays and play in the dirt has a plethora of mental and physical health benefits for anyone, especially seniors.”
https://billyoh.com/resource/benefits-of-gardening-older-adults/

Peat-based soil is an environmental nightmare. Try these alternatives.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/04/05/peat-soil-mixes-harm-environment/

Fleet Farming is an urban agriculture program that transforms the average American lawn into a bio-verse, productive micro farms and edible gardens.
https://fleetfarming.org/about-fleet-farming-orlando/

Sow Sustainability was created by Larry Waters to connect home and community gardeners to horticulture experts.
https://sowsustainability.com/

From community allotments to wildlife havens, guerilla gardeners are taking it upon themselves to create meaningful spaces.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/11/fruit-wildflowers-insects-the-people-transforming-disused-land-in-england

How Does French Market Gardening Influence Current Gardening Techniques?
https://newsociety.com/blogs/news/how-does-french-market-gardening-influences-current-gardening-techniques

We all need a healthy and just food system.
https://theconversation.com/local-food-is-not-enough-we-need-a-sustainable-transition-in-the-food-system-201991

Cultivating Abundance for People, Plants and Wildlife.
https://www.growingwithnature.org/start-here/

Food forests: a solution to the problem of hunger.
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/temas-especiales/habitat-urbano/bosques-de-alimentos/

Permaculture helps sequester carbon, enhance soil, and aid biodiversity.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01405-8

These native garden plans are not stressing permaculture food production, but they give ideas of how to make your yard better for biodiversity using plants native to your area. (And you could always substitute more native food producing plants.)
https://nativegardendesigns.wildones.org/designs/

This video shows the importance of food forests in solving many the problems that humanity faces.
https://urbanists.video/w/b55a3479-02af-493d-a5f6-bbf18018c6a7

Paw Paw fruit could outcompete apples and peaches on a hotter planet - gift article.
https://wapo.st/4dVQwia

This website has excellent ideas, examples, and resources.
Food Not Lawns

Japanese 'tiny forests' are sweeping Scotland.
Japanese 'tiny forests'

The Global War on Mess: How We’re Mowing Nature to Death.
How We’re Mowing Nature to Death.