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Do you want a resilient farm that provides your food and crops, a garden that produces varieties of herbs and flowers, and a habitat for wildlife? If so, you can try to make a permaculture ecosystem. It requires much practice, patience, and determination, but it will be worth it once you have that productive permaculture garden.

Key takeaways:

• Permaculture is the design and maintenance of productive ecosystems with the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.”
• Permaculture’s prime directive is to do your best to take care of your own needs. Taking care of your own needs doesn’t mean you have to become completely self-reliant. Instead, you have to do your best to make the highest use of resources available to you.
• The permaculture design uses three ethics:
  • Care for earth
  • Care for people
  • Reinvest surplus
• There are six permaculture principles that can help build a more productive ecosystem:
  • Observe and interact with the land.
  • Connect and integrate the pieces.
  • Catch and store energy and materials.
  • Each component must perform multiple functions.
  • Make the smallest change for the greatest effect. Look for leverage points where the least amount of work can accomplish the most difference.
  • Use small-scale, intensive systems.
• To get started on permaculture, you must know that it takes a lot of practice. It’s okay to experiment and fail. From all your experiments, collect data so you can learn how to make an even more productive and successful system.
• For more permaculture resources, you can read more articles, consult with a certified permaculture designer, or sign up for a permaculture mini-course.

Learn more by reading the full article: https://www.tenthacrefarm.com/what-is-permaculture/.

Avocadoes are healthy and delicious fruits with health benefits such as lowering cholesterol and improving digestion. If you love avocados, why not grow some in your yard? You don’t need a farm, but there is some important information that you need to know when getting started at home.

• Determine when and where to plant your tree. It is advisable to plant the avocado tree in spring, between March and June. Keep your tree away from power lines or other trees since avocado trees don’t grow well in crowded places.
• Make sure to dig the hole three to four times the diameter of the container your seedling came in. The soil must be level with or above the root ball.
• Give your avocado tree a deep watering right after you plant it. Water your tree every other day during the first week for best results. You may water twice a week after that.

To learn more, visit this link: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/grow-avocado-tree-home-potentially-224121618.html.

Culturing food is using bacteria or yeast to break food down into simpler parts and preserving it. This process is essential for people who want to save money and prevent food waste. To avoid waste, you need to make the most out of the extra cultured foods that you may have.

Key takeaways:

• If you have extra whey, you can use it as a substitute for water in baking recipes, drink it as an electrolyte drink, use it as a skin toner for the face, or add it to salad dressings.
• You can make use of extra kefir grains by combining them with a sweetener to make gelatin candy, add them to your compost pile, or feed the grains to your chickens or pets.
• An excellent way to use vegetable peelings and scraps is by chopping them into small pieces, throwing them into a jar, add a brine over the vegetables, let them culture, and voila, you have a multi-colored condiment for your meals.

Find more ways to use extra cultured foods here: https://www.culturesforhealth.com/learn/general/getting-frugal-with-cultured-foods/.