Great Lakes Permaculture

09/07/2023

Busy morning picking pears and grapes.

07/14/2023

Pears are looking good.

07/14/2023

Apricots are starting to go into the dehydrator

04/17/2023

An interesting experiment conducted by young students in England. They took one genetically modified corn and one grown in the old country way without GMOs.

They put these two corns on pins at the local squirrel park. And in the next few days, the results of the experiment were obvious.

01/18/2023

Pondering Plants... an open ended online herbal discussion with herbalist jim mcdonald February 8, 2023 6:00 - 8:30 EST

07/15/2022

Picked a batch of tayberrys today, will try again to create a pie. The last one I made did not firm up after baking, tasted delicious but did not setup. Tayberrys are very similar to wine berries in taste and size.

07/12/2022

Use the water wisely

Directing pavement runoff to boost pavement-side life, while increasing available rainfall multifold... A parking orchard of low-water-use, food-producing shade trees passively irrigated by runoff from a raised parking area harvested within sunken, mulched basins. Ideally, many perennial understory....

10/20/2021

This is a very useful technique used readily available materials.

Learn how to create new garden beds without removing current vegetation and digging up the soil.

10/14/2021

https://factkeepers.com/reality-check-many-food-crops-are-sprayed-with-glyphosate-weed-killer-before-harvest/

As safety concerns about glyphosate herbicides mount, the practice of spraying the herbicide on many crops before harvest—and getting into food products—is under scrutiny.

04/28/2021

Very interesting to see on a large scale.