Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

One way to start a forest garden is to thin out weedy trees in a wooded area and put in more plants with edible crops, such as nut trees. Are you feeling adventurous? Do you want to delve deeper into ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

Weiseman, Halsey, and Ruddock define integrated forest gardening as the “integration of all aspects of a land base into the development of healthy food, medicinal, and utility landscapes,” giving ...

Limestone raised beds and a mandala-designed food forest honor resourceful permaculture tenets. Framed by historic live oak trees in cozy Lockhart, limestone raised beds and a mandala-designed food ...

Working our way down from the top storey, the final two layers of a forest garden are the herbaceous perennial layer and the root zone, the rhizosphere, plus the climbers. I do not plant many roots ...

Basalt Mountain resident Jerome Osentowski has nurtured a reputation as a nationally renowned forest gardener through a lot of hard work, a little heartbreak and a lot of community support over the ...

The dollop of acorn gel with fermented sweet potato greens looked like sustenance from an episode of Survivor when a volunteer first offered it to me, plated on a single shiso leaf. It tasted like ...

It takes a village to build a forest. Just ask the community of Beacon Hill, a neighborhood in southeast Seattle. Following three years of careful, laborious planning, the neighborhood will soon be ...

On an overcast Saturday morning, staff and volunteers gathered at the Early Learning Center and Laboratory Preschool, both located on the University of Delaware’s Children’s Campus. With shovels and ...