Soil
How to learn the nutrient composition of your garden soil
What is a soil test?
Collecting food and garden waste
What is composting?
the development of agricultural ecosystems intended to be sustainable and self-sufficient.
What is permaculture?
What are invasive species?
Wildlife that collect and distribute pollen
What are pollinators?
Planting Oats following a potato harvest is one example
What are cover crops?
A way to collect rainwater from your gutters
What is a rain barrel?
These can extend your growing season during colder weather.
What are row covers?
an example of an indigenous culture’s agricultural method involving planting corn, squash, and beans
What are the Three Sisters?
The process a Monarch butterfly undergoes with four distinct stages: egg, larva, pupa, adult.
What is metamorphosis?
invertebrate animals that typically have soft, slender, elongated bodies and help build soil
What are worms?
the practice of using water efficiently and avoiding waste to ensure a sustainable and reliable supply for current and future needs
What is conservation?
a barrier, often a row of trees or shrubs, designed to reduce or redirect wind, protecting areas from strong winds, wind erosion, and other wind-related issues
What is a wind break?
the practice of collecting, drying, and storing seeds from plants, vegetables, herbs, and flowers to grow crops the following year, promoting self-reliance and preserving plant varieties
What is seed saving?
An invasive planthopper which is native to eastern Asia and first detected in Pennsylvania in 2014.
What is the spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula)?
A valuable soil conditioner created by the fungal decomposition of leaves
What is leaf mold?
Water that comes from sources not containing human waste, such as kitchen sinks, showers, and washing machines.
What is greywater?
Four ways of preserving food harvests
What is canning, freezing, dehydrating, or fermenting?
A planting method useful for attracting pollinators and beneficial insects as well as deterring harmful insects
What is companion planting?
This wildlife can take care of most of your insect pests.
What are beneficial predators?
What is 30:1?
a shallow, open channel lined with vegetation designed to slow, filter, and convey stormwater runoff,
What is a vegetated swale?
An Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist who knowns for or developing and promoting the theory and practice of permaculture.
Who is Bill Mollison?
A group of mutually beneficial plants assembled into an interactive community
What is a guild?
Food, water, and shelter
What the three most important needs of wildlife?