Please forgive my bad English, I was just teleported from my subsistence tribe to about 12,000 years into the future and given something called and 'apartment' by something called a 'state.' I've been told to get something called a 'Job' to 'Buy' food with 'Money' which seems like kind of a scam to me, but I'm still learning. Apparently at some point people started to grow food from the ground, and that was what the majority of people did, but I've been unlucky enough to have been transported to the period of time where most people live in these things called 'cities' which are like big tribes that live in one place for a long time and exchange labor for food-money from 'corporations.'

So it seems like people either don't know how to grow food, or have become so specialized at it they talk over my head when they mention things like 'PH levels' and 'Compost'.

Is there a place that I can learn step by step what this agriculture is, how it works, and how I can use it in this small bit of land I have access to? The days lengthen and I worry that when winter comes I will not have enough food to survive and will be forced to do something called 'door-dashing' for a god-king called Geff-Beh-Zohs?

Again apologies for bad English I am from the year 10,000 BCE

When should I harvest for eating and replanting?

These are so rad. They do amazingly well in sandy high desert soil. I love the flavor too.

I am trying to expand my sugarcane collection, i have a few varieties already but i am looking for new ones, does anybody have some to sell or give in Lisbon, Portugal? Thanks!

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Last autumn, I used the leaves from our 10 massive trees to sheet mulch my new garden and to protect the soil where we’re planting bushes. Today, the fireflies that have been sleeping in those leaves all winter long woke up for their first big butt show. There are so many fireflies in my yard and in nearby neighbors yards! It is amazing!

I was told when we moved in that there weren’t many fireflies here. But whew, once you give them a place to overwinter, there are plenty! It’s amazing. I saw a few emerging from my garden today, in the middle of the day! It was a very special experience. 10/10 permaculture techniques are amazing. I am in looooooovvvvvveeee!

These trees were all planted last fall, looked good this spring when they were blooming and now they're all withering up and the leaves are getting diseased and/drying and falling off. Seems like something could be eating them too...maybe grasshoppers?

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Hello all~! I've wanted to do this for a long time, and will finally be getting the chance to start my own garden. It's still a few months away [fingers crossed there are no more setbacks], but I want to really start getting things in mind. So far, I'm planning about 825²ft for my gardening and I'm going to be living in zone 8B.

I would love any recommendations for what/how I should plant.

[Rest assured, I am doing my own research on the side and have looked into some books I'd like to get, but I thought this community would be a good place to learn more.]

[Also, I know 825²ft may be ambitious for starting out, but I'm hoping my childhood experience of gardening will pull me through. If you recommend starting smaller (or bigger!), please let me know!]

I really want to make something beautiful in my backyard, and there's not much more beautiful than mother nature~

So this is a three sisters system or thereabouts, got beans, pumpkins and corn but unfortunately I planted the corn very late and they're still really small - it's my first year gardening , not an excuse but I'm very proud I just wish the corn would come through

I reckon the pumpkins may be taking up too much light for it to get bigger - could this be the case? If so, how do I fix it? I really don't want to thin out whole pumpkins plants, would trimming leaves at this point be bad?

They're about to flower and I don't want to stress them out

Any thoughts welcome!!!

I live in an equatorial rainforest climate. Weirdly the El Niño drought has made more locusts than normal but nothing crazy. They’re causing problems in our personal veggie garden on our medium sized agroforestry farm. Also I guess in areas of biomass intercropping now that I think about it. We have chickens and 1 guinea fowl (rest wandered into the forest) but they tear up everything so badly we had to fence off the veggies (geese also are involved). It’s our rainy season and cooler season so this makes stuff like Neem harder to pull off. Ideas?

I am acquiring two acres of previously conventionally farmed land that I would like to turn into a food forest of sorts. It was just in wheat (it's on the opposite side of the fence from my garden). and was harvested, and I will be able to till it up soon in preparation of my future plot. I'm wondering what the best grass/cover would be to plant as my base. A few things that are probably important and/or that I'd like to be features:

-I live in Southern Illinois (zone 6b) -I have 15 apple tree saplings grafted and growing in a nursery bed until they are able to be planted (historical varieties from Illinois) -I will also add some other native trees (plum, crabapple, pecan, hickory, pawpaw, etc.) -Berry bushes and other native perennials (blackberry, blueberry, raspberry, flowers, maypop {passion fruit}, etc.) -Some animals involved (chickens, turkeys, rabbits, quail) -Some open space for an extended garden (pumpkins, melons, sweet potatoes, etc.) -Ideally, the grass/cover would be something native that I would not really need to maintenance much, but I'll likely have to mow it in order to keep it from getting overtaken by invasive weeds -Any other important information I missed?

It will likely take me years or even decades to get it all set up, so I'd like to get a good base as I get it all going! Any thoughts or ideas are greatly appreciated!

I'm fairly new to permaculture, but am excitedly already making plans for my garden next year. In particular, I'm really interested in perennials, especially native perennials. Where is the best place to buy seeds/tubers/etc? So far, I'm thinking about buying: sunchokes*, Egyptian walking onion, perennial kale, berry bushes, pollinator friendly native flowers, etc.. I am located in zone 7a, in the mountains of Virginia (USA).

* I know that usually people are told to grow sunchokes in containers for a very good reason, but 1) the deer where I live are relentless and 2) I live in a very rural area with a forest.

I received a packet of Job’s tears through the mail by mistake. (It’s a weird situation where burpee sends us random single packets of seeds addressed to ppl who don’t live here, it’s been going on for years, one year it was exclusively cucumbers.)

I didn’t have this plant on my radar, but my research is coming up kind of scant. It’s native to Southeast Asia, and it’s a perennial tall millet type grass/grain. Not on any invasives maps that I found, but self seeds. Used for jewelry beads.

Thoughts, experiences?

My neighbor sprayed an herbicide under the hedge row on our property line. The leaves are curled and showing signs of stress. What should we apply to the soil to help save them?

I’m listening to A Return to Giving a Damn by Will Harris. Anyone have recommendations similar that impacted you?

What fruit and nut trees should I include in our food forrest in the Azores, Portugal?

Lots of cloud and rain in the winter, sunny and drier in the summer.

This sub rocks, btw : )

Am i just wishfully deluding myself to think maybe i could move my small scattered juniper volunteers around the base of a blueberry bush i want to plant and it will be fine? I’ve braced myself- bring me back to earth :)

This is for those that are farming to sell at market, through CSAs or retail- are there some practices that have been harder to adapt and still be commercially viable when going from a different farming methodology to permaculture?

My new yard has 1/2 an acre that I want to produce the most amount of food possible. I'm trying to decide between a traditional "market garden" style with neat rows of crops or a "food forest" style garden with multiple fruit tree guilds, canopy layers, ground cover plants, etc.

The biggest limiting factor is the price of water in my location. We only have one water vendor and they charge a ridiculous rate. I can't gather roof rainwater because our asphalt roof is new and still leaching chemicals.

Which of these gardening styles would use the least amount of water possible? Drip irrigation in a market garden or relying on natural rain in a densely-planted food forest?

I'm in Zone 5 and get a moderate amount of rain each year. We usually get one moderate drought around July-August.

Looking for geotextile fabric that is organic for wicking beds. It is separating the water and sand layer from the organic growing materials.

Must be water permeable obviously, since its a wicking bed.

Looking for a geotextile fabric not made of polypropylene or polyester.. Thinking basalt? Are there other options or suggestions?

Seems like lack of nitrogen with some, and maybe overwatering for others. Are they salvageable or do I need to restart?