Even after all her work, Elizabeth only has about 5 inches of decent material with a super-hard layer beneath. No-till gardening is the hottest thing since faux wood panels on station wagons. It ...

Get inspired to transform your lawn with these front yard garden ideas using permaculture principles and no till gardening methods. When we bought our homestead, the only gardening area was at the ...

If planning to put in a new garden next spring, you might not need to wait until spring. Consider starting site preparation now with a no-till option. Research shows that tillage damages soil ...

Converting to no-till gardening How can you convert existing gardens to no-till? Start this fall or winter; collect all the available organic matter you can find, such as tree leaves, pine needles, ...

What’s your gardening style? The way we garden can determine whether we are increasing or decreasing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Carbon has been on my mind lately following the release of ...

Tilling is as synonymous with farming and gardening as compost and muddy boots. It’s used to eliminate weeds and break up hard soil so that tender seedlings may grow. So, it may come as a surprise ...

Don’t till; just chill. In an organic nutshell, that sums up a technique that creates a new garden bed with little effort and requires no tiller or other power equipment. This easy method recycles ...

I had heard of no-till farming, but did you know about no-till gardening? According to this piece from the Christian Science Monitor, the same concepts of organic no-till farming can be applied on a ...

“Be ye not afraid of doing something your venerable ancestors did, for the benefits to your aching back may be many” (Author anonymous) We all know that gardening involves a lot of hard work: hoeing, ...

Jack Frost may soon bring the growing season to an end, but don’t pack your tools away just yet. A big secret to successful gardening is planning and working ahead of the next growing season, and fall ...

“Feed the soil and not the plant” is the holy mantra of organic gardening. The organic movement started in the 1900s when modern-large scale agricultural practices were being adopted. Organic ...