• Classes, Community Events, Education, Eliza, Things to Do

How to Build a Permaculture Garden Class, Part 1 & 2

This Saturday Eliza is going to be showing a small group of people how to install a permaculture garden by actually doing it — the best way to learn! If you prefer to learn hands-on, this class is going to cover a myriad of permaculture techniques and design elements. Even better is that in the process, we’ll be putting in…

• Appalachian History, Backyard Chickens, Beekeeping, Beneficial Animals, Beneficial Insects, Butterfly & Hummingbird Gardening, Canning, Classes, Community Events, Compost & Amendments, Cooking & Preserving, Cover Crops, Drying, Education, Eliza, Farms, Fermentation, Flowers, Fruits, Fungi, Garden Design, Garden DIY, Garden Philosophy, Garden Tour, General Philosophy, Heirlooms, Herbs/Spices, Hiking, Home Improvement, Hugelkultur, Insects, Intensive Space Gardening, Irrigation, Kitchen Gardens/Potagers, Lasagna Gardening, Microclimates, Miscellaneous Crops, Native Plants, Nature, Nature Study, Orchard Shrubs, Orchard Trees, Ornamental Edibles, Permaculture, Permaculture Projects, Pests & Diseases, Propagation, Root Crops, Seed Saving/Starting, Shade/Part Sun Edibles, Soil & Fertility, Things to Do, Trap Cropping, Vegetables, Vining Edibles, Wild Foraged Food, Winter Growing

How to Attend Hands-On Classes in Gardens, Kitchens, Forests, and Even a Late 1800’s Cabin

It’s here. The garden classes are in gardens, the cooking classes are in kitchens, the nature study is in forests, the raspberries taste like raspberries, and the snozzberries taste like snozzberries! I worked for weeks on the lesson plans for these hands-on classes, workshops, and tours and am so excited to finally roll them out. Click here for my entire…

• Compost & Amendments, Garden DIY, Intensive Space Gardening, Nathaniel, Permaculture, Plant in Spring, Pomegranates

How to Find a New Place For a Cold Frame (and Improve Upon Last Year’s Design)

Hi, I’m Nathaniel, and I will be occasionally writing here now (I believe my lovely wife was kind enough to introduce me).  So anyway, nice to meet everybody. I hope you all find what I write about interesting and valuable. In an effort to get our seed trays out of the house earlier last year, Eliza and I decided to…

• Backyard Chickens, Education, Garden Design, Green Living, Green Philosophy, Kitchen Gardens/Potagers, Nature, Orchard Shrubs, Orchard Trees, Permaculture, Things to Do

Free Permaculture Course, Homesteading Blog, & Update

I wanted to share this free online “Introduction to Permaculture” course offered by NC State University. It’s a high-quality, 40 hour college course taught by Professor Will Hooker that really explains the fundamentals. Click here to watch the lectures. The first lecture mostly covers orientation for the live classroom students (introducing themselves, field trip carpooling, etc.). If you want to…

• General Philosophy

How Not to Move to the West Coast

Why would you want to? Okay, maybe for the olives… I have nothing against the West Coast, nor am I promoting a competition. I just think we should give the United States some balance. If you want to make a big change, make it in a place where there needs to be a big change! Not that it is much…