Here’s how you can get your yard certified as a National Wildlife Federation Wildlife Habitat! Go to http://nwf.org/Garden-for-Wildlife/Certify To view the checklist and begin the 5 steps to certifying your yard and supporting local wildlife! Ways to support our work: Paypal.me/ParkrosePermaculture www.Patreon.com/ParkrosePermaculture1 www.ko-fi.com/ParkrosePermaculture Songbird deaths per year in the US: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380 Backyard Habitat Cert https://audubonportland.org/get-involved/backyard-habitat-certification-program/…
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Composting in a few easy steps – quick ways to make and use compost in a no dig garden
Compost is a superb mulch for no dig beds, an inch or so / 2.5cm annually, for two crops. The compost feeds soil organisms, whose activity and excretions improve soil structure, and provide nutrition for plants. 00:00 Intro 00:25 How to assemble the pallets, very quick and easy 6:45 mid April to end of May…

10 Years No Dig at Homeacres
Showing the changes that have happened since I arrived here autumn 2012, without a masterplan. It was “space out of doors” with almost no garden, a small house which appealed to nobody, and good soil. I thought to make a teaching garden, developed another market garden, and created a base for educating through social media.…

REVEALING 6 SECRETS OF ALOE VERA FOR YOUR GARDEN | USES OF ALOE VERA IN GARDENING
Aloe vera has 6 miraculous uses in gardening. All of us know the numerous benefits of aloe vera to the human body. So, what if I told you that aloe vera can provide many of those same benefits to plants as well? Aloe vera is sometimes known as “the plant of immortality” – because of…

Cover Crops as Living Mulch under Vegetables, Claire Strader, WI
Claire Strader is a small-scale and organic produce educator with FairShare CSA Coalition in Madison, Wisconsin. She received a SARE Partnership Program grant to explore using cover crops as a living mulch for organic vegetables. Learn about this SARE project here: https://projects.sare.org/sare_project/onc15-011/ Source

Can you grow in only compost?
I’ve long been a HUGE fan of Charles Dowding. A rainy Saturday morning with a cup of hot coffee and Charles’ soothing voice sharing his latest No Till and Compost gardening techniques? Count me in! As a result of the influence from Charles, I started using tons of compost in my beds. And this season,…

Fall Garden Cleanup Begins | Gardening with Creekside
Our first freeze warning is only a few days away and so the fall garden cleanup begins! Join me as I spend part of an afternoon cleaning out the annuals surrounding the backyard patio. 🪴 Companies We Partner With 🪴 Proven Winners https://www.provenwinners.com/ Power Planter Garden Augers & Drills https://powerplanter.com/ref/13 Felco (Use GWC10 for 10%…

This SIMPLE Garden TIP Will Get You MORE CUCUMBERS!
The right tip for the right job can make all the difference! Merchandise: https://jamesprigioni.com Amazon Store: www.amazon.com/shop/thegardeningchannelwithjamesprigioni MY FAVORITE GARDEN PRODUCTS 🧰 → Birdies Raised Beds: COUPON CODE: TUCK https://lets.growepic.co/jamesprigioni →Amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/2z7NIRQ → Sulfur Dust for Fungal Diseases: https://amzn.to/2VETaXP → UV Resistant Marker: https://amzn.to/3oUevXb → 40% Shade Cloth- https://amzn.to/3vrAYNF → Garden Straw Mini:…

Permaculture living things
I don’t live here too much, sleep in 20-30 nights a year with the day before and after activity. Slowly overtime it develops. Permaculture is not a thing, it is a way to think. #permaculture Source

Worm Composting…Underground?! Subpod Review
Reviewing the Subpod, the composting product I get the MOST questions about. It took me a while to get this review together because I wanted to put the system through its paces, and as you’ll see, there were some design challenges I faced with the larger model. The Subpod Mini is my favorite version of…