Pawpaw Paradise: The Banana of the North
As I write this, snow covers the ground amid a landscape resembling the tundra. Many bird species have migrated south, departing this frigid region for more mild climes. Waterways glaze over their surfaces with the pale luster of ice. And my banana trees rise through the snow just like the more familiar apples, pears and peaches.
Permaculture Principles: A Grower’s Guide
Permaculture. Perhaps you’ve heard the word before, perhaps not. Although the word itself is relatively new, the practices that define it have been around for as long as humans have been cultivating plants. Indeed, it has been the primary agricultural system around the world for most of that time, only recently being upended by the corporate industrial/chemical farms. To farm in a permaculture sense is to work WITH the landscape, rather than against it.