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How to Stake Tomatoes
It’s that time of year when garden vegetables and weeds alike are growing inches overnight. If you’re like us, tomatoes are a darling in your garden, but it can be tricky to keep these wily vines in check. There are lots of ways to stake or trellis tomatoes and ... Read more
Pokeweed: How to Prepare “Poke Salad”
Pokeweed is a nutritional powerhouse, but be careful, it can also be toxic to humans if it’s not prepared correctly. Learning how to prepare poke salad correctly ensures you get the benefits without the risk. This voluptuous weed is extremely high in vitamin A, and also has significant amounts of ... Read more
Grow your own sweet potato slips
What are sweet potato slips? Sweet potato slips are the surprisingly diminutive tuber sprouts that grow into sprawling, productive sweet potato plants. Unlike potato potatoes (a.k.a. Irish taters or white potatoes, Solanum tuberosum), you don’t just cut up sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) and plant them in the ground to ... Read more
The Glorious Garden Journal
Learning as you go is one of the most rewarding things about growing a garden. Keeping a garden journal will help you do this. Whether you planted your first tomatoes this year or you’ve been tending a plot for 40 years, there are always new things to try and practices ... Read more
How to Build Your Own Tiny House in 5 Steps
We suspect a lot of you are just as excited about tiny houses as we are. That’s why we’re going to walk you through how to build your own tiny house in 5 basic steps. Step 1: Dreaming and Designing Your Tiny House Before you pick up a hammer ... Read more
Direct Sowing in 5 Steps
Spring is here and it’s time to get planting. There are many ways to fill your garden with verdant, fruitful beauty. Direct sowing is one of the simplest, lowest-input (and low budget) ways to grow vegetables. In the right circumstances, it has lots of advantages over growing or buying transplants. ... Read more
How to Grow Mushrooms on Logs & When to Inoculate Them
They’re delicious, healthful, beautiful and fascinating, so we’re going to teach you the basics of how to grow mushrooms. There are many kinds of mushrooms (over 10,000 known!) that live in all kinds of habitats, including wild mushrooms and cultivated ones. Here we’ll focus on general cultivation strategies for decomposers of wood, ... Read more
How to Prune a Fruit Tree – Winter Pruning
Many modern varieties of fruit trees benefit from pruning. How to prune a fruit tree depends on the age, size, and type of tree, and your desired results. There are several reasons to prune, including: Shape the tree as it grows Stimulate growth Improve light and airflow around flowers/fruits Remove ... Read more
Wild Roots Sprout Wild Abundance
Natalie Bogwalker’s Life Changing Experience at the Wild Roots Community For five years, Wild Abundance founder and director Natalie Bogwalker lived at the Wild Roots Community. Her time there changed her life, and inspired her to share primitive living and homesteading skills with the wider world. Here we interview her about ... Read more
The Wondrous World of Wild Mushrooms
Getting to know the wild mushrooms growing around you can be rewarding and enriching. And there are so many varieties of wild mushrooms growing in North Carolina. Many mushrooms you’ll find are edible and delicious. There are others with potent medicinal compounds that can help keep you healthy or support ... Read more
Why You Should Plant a Mulberry Tree (or Three)
Whether you have a small suburban backyard or a large farm, we strongly recommend that you plant at least one mulberry tree. Mulberries are best known for their sweet-tart fruit, which is one of our favorites both fresh and dried. They are wonderful in other ways, too. In fact, ... Read more
Apprenticeship Voices
It’s a big leap to become a permaculture apprentice. In fact, it involves a whole life commitment for a period of time. In addition, it often means moving, and usually means living in rustic conditions. Apprenticeships involve working hard and meeting your edges. Doing this is an opportunity to persevere ... Read more
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