Permaculture Farming

Question: Can anyone recommend a good source of information for a beginning gardener?

I want to start planning now for a Permaculture Landscape Design for my yard next spring. From what I’ve read about Permaculture, it sounds like a great concept, but I’m overwhelmed by ph levels, companion planting, planting seeds in hills, blah, blah, blah! I need to do this as frugally as possible and want to do some container gardening to avoid weeds. I want to plant the front and back yards and have it be both attractive and productive. Any advice? Thank you!

Answer: Call your local UCCE extension office and ask for the Master Gardeners. They have a myriad of literature that they disperse at no charge.

Eric Toensmeier, author of Perennial Vegetables, tours his perennial root crop.