Thriving Community News – Without the Noise
What new adventures will this growing season hold? Spring is dawning. Whether you have never gardened before, or you are a green thumb, you are excited about what this year may hold. The seed catalogs lay open on the kitchen table or coffee table. The plants are starting to show up at the nursery and … Read more
Extend your growing season with a greenhouse and start new seedlings earlier in the spring The first frost in NE Kansas averages around Oct-20. The last frost around Apr-20. That is 6 months of no growing season. I had setup grow lights in my basement to start plants earlier, but it was starting to take … Read more
Permaculture – Your Plants Will Tell You What They Want by Thriving…Or Not In my previous article, How I created a Food Forest, I documented what I did in 2021 to turn an 80’x30′ corner of my pasture into a permaculture orchard/food forest. The Original Design The original design included hand dug swales, and rows … Read more
Editor’s Note: As Perpend related in Ep. 14 of Thriving the Future Podcast, his Perfect Day looks like a fairly average day that many would not see as anything special. But it has space, it has room to think, to relax, to breathe, while still Getting Stuff Done. “The whole point is living a life … Read more
Mixing different kinds of seeds in one garden plot Milpa is a warm season cover crop mix that includes greens, squash, beans, corn, pumpkins, cucumbers, and annual and wildflowers. It is designed to grow as much food as possible in a space without weeding, tilling, and planning. In addition, it also adds nitrogen to the … Read more
Turn a corner of your garden into Hassle-Free Permaculture Perennial Production Look at this picture. What do you see? A mess of plants and weeds? This is a permaculture apple guild, with multiple perennials, in the corner of my garden area. This has two apple trees on dwarf/semi-dwarf rootstock (an Arkansas Black, and a Golden … Read more
Arkansas Black – a good storage apple for preppers and Thrivers. I almost cut this tree down. I am glad that I didn’t. I have a love-hate relationship with this tree. I planted several five years ago. They are always burdened by cedar apple rust and some years shed many of their leaves. I have … Read more
