Adding a small root cellar to your existing home will provide you with fresh veggies throughout the winter and spring. Irma calls the design provided here a root closet, because it’s roughly the size of a bedroom room closet (the interior space is 3½’ x 7½’). At less than 27 square feet, it will be [...]

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Permaculture is a blending of the words permanent and agriculture. It’s intent is to develop sustainable cultural design that benefits humans, plants, wildlife and soils in a permanent edible landscape. The focus on interdependencies and the relationships between the creatures (including the farmer) that live within the permaculture space is what distinguishes it from other [...]

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Did you ever want to grow your own popcorn or halloween pumpkin? Or something fun like Tom Thumb lettuce? Or exotic like Cattle beans? What kid wouldn’t? Children love the magic of planting, watching things grow and harvesting vegetables and fruits. While, admittedly, weeding and fertilizing are less popular activities and thinning seedlings can be [...]

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Root cellars, as Irma’s son Mylar points out, are cool. So, we’ll take that as reason #1. Here’s another 10 good reasons to have a root cellar. Root cellars are a passive cooling system that makes use of the earth’s geothermal capacity. So no added energy is needed to maintain them. They’re versatile. If you [...]

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