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an image of a garden made out of bricks

Do I need walls for the gardens or can I just kind of pile everything? My understanding is in permaculture not to plant rows of vegetables all separate from each other, but how do I decide what and where to place things?

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the diagram shows different types of plants and how they can be used to grow them

I'm a big fan of the late Toby Hemenway's book, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture. I own both editions, and for many years I used it as the curriculum for the intro permaculture courses I taught. In my opinion it's a classic right up there with Mollison's big black book.

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a garden with many plants growing in it and the words 8 amazing keyhole garden ideas

Keyhole gardening is a perfect solution if you'd like to have a garden but live in an area with poor soil, dry weather, or limited outdoor space. Keyhole gardens are round raised beds built around a central compost basket. A small entryway gives the bed its keyhole shape and provides convenient access.

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a drawing of a garden with plants and flowers on the bottom right hand corner, surrounded by words written in different languages

Last week, I wrote about the many social and ecological problems that we face as a society and linked them to the systems we use to meet our needs. After that post, I received a lot of feedback from people offline. In fact, from the analytical data I have access to, that last post quickly became one of the most read and shared pieces I've written here. Many said they had been thinking similarly along these lines, somehow intuiting the challenges we face, but not quite connecting it to our…

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