A quick introduction to Permaculture
Permaculture is a design system which can help us make more appropriate choices. Permaculture was conceived of in the 1970s by David Holmgren and Bill Mollison, and its ideas have now spread around the world. Its name comes from the idea…
Building a Food Forest garden – cover crops
We’re designing a Food Forest garden, to be built later this spring. We’ll be tearing out asphalt, cleansing and rejeuvenating the soil, and recrafting the space as a community gathering area with a cob bread oven and food forest. Today…
A community bread oven
Last Saturday we had the kickoff meeting for a new project: building a community bread oven out of cob. What’s cob? For us in Southern California, the easiest comparison is to think about the adobe bricks used for the missions;…
The Art of the Edible Landscape
Imagine a beautiful front yard — a sculpture in three dimensions — that you can walk through and enjoy, that will feed you luscious organic food! How does one design such a thing? This spring I’ll be teaching “The Art…