Wonder-Flora Landscape Design

Always more to learn about the benefits of no-till growing for soil life and food quality!

This Antioxidant May Provide a Key Link Between Regenerative Agriculture and Human Health - Regeneration International Researchers have just begun to show recently that soils managed according to the principles of regenerative agriculture—minimal tillage, crop rotation, and the use of cover crops—yield more nutritious harvests.

I have been happy to allow white and red clover to grow where it popped up around shrubs and trees I planted. Not so keen on buttercup and invasive grasses, but I appreciate the perspective of seeing the natural value of weeds and selectively picking our battles.Instead of digging the weeds out I more often will cut them short, mulch over them and never let them set seed.

Are Weeds Really 'Bad'? Weeding in your garden? Maybe you shouldn't. Contrary to our decades-long battle against weeds, such as in lawns and in gardens (and especially where I live in America)… …most weeds are around for a (natural) reason. No, I’m not saying you should let weeds crowd out and choke your plants! (Tha...

Fascinating!

Peter Wohlleben, author of the best-selling The Hidden Life of Trees, discusses an experiment with Nautilus.

In the experiment, Venus flytraps are given an anesthetic that deactivates their electric activity and they can’t snap their traps shut.

When the plants “wake up,” all is well, and they are back to snatching flies.

But to wake up, writes Wohlleben, you need consciousness. So do plants have consciousness?

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Learning from Indigenous Coast Salish peoples about forest gardens:

Ancient Indigenous forest gardens promote a healthy ecosystem: SFU study - SFU News - Simon Fraser University A new study by Simon Fraser University historical ecologists finds that Indigenous-managed forests—cared for as “forest gardens”—contain more biologically and functionally diverse species than surrounding conifer-dominated forests and create important habitat for animals and pollinators. The...