Water conservation is a beautiful thing.
Quarantine Recipes: Domenica’s Biscotti
We’ve been asking top chefs what they’ve been making during the pandemic. This week, our publisher weighs in.
With its gorgeous pelt and low profile, moss acts a lush unifying force in a permaculture garden, softening edges and combining elements in a way that no other planting or installation possibly could.
You can think of heat sinks as heat traps of sorts, or thermal mass solar batteries that store daytime heat for release after sunset.
Herb spirals are beautiful, productive, righteous installations -- popular in permaculture circles, but little known in mainstream garden design
One should be comfortable with, better yet 'love' soil, to be a successful gardener or an urban farmer. Earlier this fall I had occasion to wax poetic about soil and its magical properties, with Modern Farmer publisher Frank Giustra. I have no doubt that he thought me a bit bonkers at the outset, but by the time we were done, he'd signed up for raised beds filled with living soil. What follows is a tidier version of the bits and pieces of enthusiasm I offered Frank as we puttered in the greenhouse.
