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What Happens When You Can’t Garden? (part 1)

What happens to our gardens when the gardener can’t tend them? It was Spring of 2020.  My life was undergoing a total transformation, a shedding of thick old skin affirmed one day by a visit from a 5 foot long black snake that crawled his way into a small gap Read more…

By Matt, 6 monthsDecember 20, 2024 ago
Permaculture Patterns

No script, no master plan

Imagine you wanted to help a relationship with someone and so you visited a therapist together. You both tell the therapist your problems and pay them a lot of money. Everyone goes home, and in a week you meet up again. Smiling, the therapist hands you each a script with Read more…

By Matt, 3 yearsMay 14, 2022 ago
Permaculture Patterns

Skip the Compost Pile?

Compost is the miraculous formed in worm guts; a homebrew resurrection where weeds, rinds, peels, junk mail, old love letters, failed food experiments and delicious leftovers alike find themselves heaped together to surrender their past and be reborn.  Compost piles are a kind of devotional poetry and a shrine to Read more…

By Matt, 3 yearsFebruary 21, 2022 ago
Permaculture is deeply indebted to the rooted generational wisdom of the indigenous peoples of the lands where we work, live, and heal. We grow gratefully in the shade of the seed breeders, the land tenders, the song and story keepers, and all those who knew how to be harmony to the great music of earth. If you are inspired to support our local indigenous peoples, please consider giving to the Occaneechi Saponi, the Haliwa Saponi, the Tutelo Saponi, the Cherokee, the Lumbee, and the other indigenous wisdom keepers of this land that feeds and shelters us.
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