green thumbs and rebel hearts

food not lawns

If you have a house, the green space around the house is designed to support you.

If you’re living in a typical suburban house, the green space there is intended to support homeowners in a game of status based on having excess space to waste on monoculture or displays of colour and fashion.

Sadly however, for most in the west, their gardens have little to do with sustaining anything that matters.

That is of course you’re part of the ‘food not lawns’ suburban agriculture movement. There you get into crazy ideas like no till gardening. No till gardening is exactly as it sounds. It’s a method of growing crops without disturbing the soil through tillage, which involves plowing, digging, or turning over the soil. Instead of tilling, gardeners and farmers use techniques like mulching, cover cropping, and minimal disturbance to maintain soil structure and health.

Though growing food in permaculture is really important, most important is the permaculture gardener’s focus on the soil. A permacultu…