permaculture gardening

  • My favourite tools for self sufficient gardening on rough land
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    My favourite tools for self sufficient gardening on rough land

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    Here are my favourite tools for serious self reliant food gardening, with some notes about what I use them for and what to look for. These garden tools are suited to tall people and people with bad backs, and are tough enough to work on compacted soil and clearing scrubland. My four favourite tools for self sufficient gardening on rough land Metal broadfork A broadfork gently aerates soil without inverting it, giving some oxygen (but not too much) to the…

  • My favourite leafy greens to grow for survival, self reliance, and taste
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    My favourite leafy greens to grow for survival, self reliance, and taste

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    Some of my friends and readers are ordering seeds at the moment, so I thought I’d share some of my favourite varieties of greens to grow. The varieties below are all fairly easy to find at the moment from online seed sellers, and all are open pollinated, so if you end up liking them as much as I do, you can save seeds from them too. Why grow leafy greens? Greens yield a lot of nutrition in a small amount…