Category: Case Studies
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How to Maintain a Polyculture Garden
Hello gardeners. It’s a beautiful October day and I wanted to share an update on our polyculture garden and talk a little bit about how to maintain a polyculture garden throughout the growing season to get the most out of it. Back in May, I wrote a post about starting a polyculture garden. I learned…
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What an Urban Food Forest Looks Like After One Year
Last month, I posted an update on our property, showing how I’ve begun to implement a permaculture design and how the backyard has changed after moving in one year ago. Today, I want to give you a closer look at our baby urban food forest. I’ll talk about how we planned and started our backyard…
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Backyard Permaculture: Our New Property One Year Later
(Take a peek inside our backyard and see what we’ve done in our first year at our quarter-acre urban permaculture property.) I’m back! It’s been a long summer of family adventures after taking the summer off from this website. But I couldn’t stay away any longer. The kids are back in school and we’re settling…
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Should “Diseased” Trees be Cut Down? A Permaculture Perspective
Hello friends. Maybe you’re reading this because you have a tree that you think might need to come down. If so, I hope that my experience can help you make your decision. First of all, I’m not an arborist or tree expert. I’m just a new tree mama with a couple of sick old trees…
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Our Story: Starting Our Permaculture Property
Hello and welcome to My Edible Habitat! This is the “before” part of a case study about our quarter-acre permaculture property in Boise, Idaho. This post was written in 2021, right after we bought this property and before we started the transition from lawn to food forest and permaculture garden. I did a follow-up in…