Permaculture Garden Planning
Plant once and harvest for a lifetime
Permaculture focuses on planting once, and harvesting for a lifetime…but it also involves four seasons of planning. During the winter months, in many cases, you’re just as busy as during spring planting or summer harvest season.
This season-by-season guide will help you plan your to-do list to make sure you don’t miss a thing!
Read More: Permaculture Garden To-Do List (By Season)
Permaculture Resources
Here are some of my favorite permaculture resources and planting guides to fill out your food garden plan
60+ Unique Fruits and Nuts to Grow at Home (Hardy Permaculture Plants)
Things You Might Need This Week
Looking for more winter permaculture inspiration to plant (and use) your forever garden?
Seasonal Preserving
Recipes to keep your larder full all year round…in season now:
30+ Ground Beef Canning Recipes - Inexpensive ways to put a protein-rich meal in a jar
30+ Strawberry Canning Recipes - We’re a long ways off from strawberries here in the North, but I know they’re just coming in out west and down south. Make the most of it!
Pickled Garlic - This is a great way to use up that garlic that’s starting to sprout in the back of your pantry…
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Things I’m Loving
Misfits Market is has been a lifesaver this week, with the tractor and snow thrower both out of commission. We have a deep pantry, but a box of fresh produce delivered is such a wonderful luxury (and an inexpensive one at that, well worth it, in my opinion).
The same goes for Wild Grain, which kept us in fresh baked sourdough bread while I was out on the ice in insulated overalls draining hydraulic fluid from a finicky tractor (instead of inside tending my wee sourdough beasties). Sometimes, outsourcing what you can helps you get through the hard weeks, and I’m thankful for both those options this week in particular!
What are you harvesting, preserving, building, or exploring on your homestead this week? I’d love to hear about it!
Leave me a note in the comments…
Until Next Time,
Ashley at Practical Self Reliance
Ashley, I can't tell you the depths of my gratitude for your page and love that you embrace permaculture. You are doing a great service to your community and beyond. Love those books and have most of them. I have been practicing and teaching permaculture for over twenty years and started when everyone thought it was "permafrost." Dang! So wonderful that you are opening doors for your followers. You are changing the world, even when you may not see it. You are putting forth a "living planet avenue" into the future, rather than the "dead planet" that seems to be the capitalism pathway. Not to be dark here. Just so supportive of you as you are bringing in the light! Bless you!
We just invested in a can sealer. Im looking forward to using it but also a little nervous. Do you have any knowledge or helpful resources for this type of preserving