YAKIMA, Wash. -- Jeff Stainthorp wants everything on his farm to have a purpose. Sure, he’s growing corn. But right next to it is buckwheat. Together, they will shade the ground, cutting back the ...

I’m farmer Henry Gwynn, a seventh generation Tallahassee native, and with the help of my hard-working fiancée Burgen Schwartz, run a permaculture farm just south of Tallahassee, Treehouse Permaculture ...

New and existing scientific research into permaculture and permaculture-inspired techniques in rice cultivation has revealed it has several environmental benefits, outweighing certain impacts created ...

This family in Australia completely shifted the way they source their food – with remarkable success. When wife Nici suffered an illness, the Coopers decided to start growing their own produce at home ...

111Then there are the lettuces lush as ferns, raspberries that melt on the tongue and carrots like big, orange wands. Paul Gautschi, when giving a tour of his garden, wants you to graze and taste your ...

In my ongoing quest to learn everything I can about gardening as part of our Million Gardens Movement, I recently encountered a fascinating thing: urban permaculture. Australian academics Bill ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Pupils of St. Dennis Libolina Special Primary Junior school for physically challenged Day ...

On just over an acre of land, Linda Geronilla's home stands out from others in the neighborhood. It's not the solar panels on her home's roof that won her national awards for energy conservation but ...

Forty years ago, at age 4, Maya Blow dressed in her Sunday-best outfit, balanced a tray of Dixie cups filled with natural perfume that she had made from crushed willow tree seeds and established ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Indian Creek Nature Center announced Tuesday that it's looking to use its largest gift ever of land to nurture new farming practices amid the corn and soybean fields of Linn County. In ...

The homesteading pros at Gold Shaw Farm create a permaculture orchard as part of their duck farm strategy.

Being a woman farmer in Puerto Rico is a beautiful thing. I am not a woman farmer, but I’ve spent the last three months meeting women across the island who are leading farming initiatives ranging from ...