A few of my favs are in the above photo however there are more than I wish to get like the food forest ones. There are many fantastic permaculture design books out there. And I missed having sunflowers last year, so they’re back. Strawberries still going strong so keeping them (perennial). Best results with my jalapenos and onions so they can line the edges. Built permaculture polyculture garden beds. Small Vegetable Garden Plan (Community Garden) Going with mostly container herbs in 2019.Planted a medicinal herb garden which attracts many bees, and planted butterfly and bee wildflower blends around our garden.Getting the chickens and worms do the composting for us for the easy composting way.Practiced companion planting in our vegetable with herbs and flowers.Purchased organic or heirloom seeds from the best seed companies.Let the chickens free-range safely under our fruit trees, and planted future trees like the Japanese umbrella pine to create a chicken food forest zone.Helping the wild pollinators and increasing biodiversity in our backyard.Creating rotational permaculture chicken runs around our garden to reduce feeding costs and pests.Some of the backyard permaculture gardening and design we’ve done so far: Although we live on 2.5 acres, our set up is in a fenced area about 1/4 of an acre because we have herds of elk that come through and need further fencing. Right now we’ve been creating short term and long term homestead projects for our backyard. Right now we’re building up our backyard into permaculture design zones and I’ll be sharing with you how we build it over time (it will take years!). You cant keep chickens so you practice vermicomposting and composting Our Backyard Permaculture Design Maybe you have an area outside your garden where you grow comfrey that you cut down twice a season and make fertilizer tea (instead of buying it) or use it to build up the soil. With permaculture gardening, you’re designing a garden that builds up your soil over time, attracts pollinators or reduces pests. You also get happy chicken eggs! If you have the space you’ll grow some grain for your chickens for the winter months. You let the chicken coop bedding and manure to rest and decompose which you’ll fertilize your garden with which helps your plants to grow and builds up your soil. Your chickens get to free-range and control pests, eat up decomposing fruit from fruit trees. You’ll put your chickens to work and let them do the composting for you. You’ll create different areas for them to eat from, let areas rest so it can re-grow, grow mealworms or grass sprouts for them to it. Instead of relying on buying chicken feed, you create and design a backyard system that benefits feeding your chickens instead of just ‘keeping them’. Some Permaculture Examples Permaculture example #1
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