Backyard Permaculture Garden Design

A unique opportunity for hands on organic learning from a working permaculture garden.

Backyard permaculture garden design. Some of the backyard permaculture gardening and design we ve done so far. Created to support you on your journey to becoming a food gardener kath will teach you how to design and run your own edible backyard. You are trying to create gardens that will continue to grow and produce for many years.

We teach permaculture gardening through our educational blogs and gardening webinars. The principles of permaculture may make sense but how do you convert them into an actual functioning permaculture design. Permaculture is one of those words that you hear in gardening enthusiast circles but what the term means is not exactly well known.

5 easy ways to create a permaculture garden design leveraging the natural processes to regenerate the ecology of the site. But more than that we show you how you can grow it. Permaculture gardening also focuses heavily on gradually building up soil quality with nutrients so that you re constantly rejuvenating the earth as you strengthen the health of your plants.

See the design here. Permaculture plants for small gardens. In a permaculture garden plants are grouped into seven distinct layers.

The understorey includes smaller trees and large shrubs followed by the shrub layer which can include fruit bushes such as blueberries and gooseberries. One of the important things you learn in permaculture is design for permaculture is ultimately a multidisciplinary design system. A permaculture garden design considers the needs of the natural ecosystem and climate in addition to meeting human needs.

Remember that permaculture is permanent agriculture. Having a raised planting bed is the first step towards growing your own food. Creating rotational permaculture chicken runs around our garden to reduce feeding costs and pests.