Book Notes: The Permaculture Handbook :: Chapter Eight

Here are my highly personal notes on Chapter Eight: Labor — Can You Lend A Helping Hand? in Peter Bane’s The Permaculture Handbook (2012). Any misrepresentations of

Maui Buttercup, Black Brass Buttons, and Soaking Up Blood

My permaculture group visited Cider Hill Garden & Gallery in Windsor, VT, last October and again about ten days ago, in early June. It’s a

View from the end of the month: August

Here’s what’s going on in my patch of land in northern New England as of 31 August 2016: We’ve had some rain in the last

View from the end of the month: July

Here’s what’s going on in my patch of land in northern New England as of 31 July (or really, 1 August) 2016: It’s raining as

View from the end of the month: June

(Let’s see how long I remember to keep this monthly ritual going.  My record is not strong.) Here’s what’s going on in my patch of

Little Faces, Green Hands

“Queer things happen in the garden in May.  Little faces forgotten appear, and plants thought to be dead suddenly wave a green hand to confound