Guilds
Plant of the Month: Chenopodium Album, Lambsquarters
Chenopodium Album: Lamb’s Quarters, Fat Hen I expect that we will be harvesting lamb’s quarters here in Southern Illinois for 10 or 11 months this year. Because of our very mild winter the plants had an early kick start this spring. I have seen lamb’s quarters grow up to 10 feet tall in good organic [...]
Permaculture Plant of the Month: Comfrey
When I think about the penultimate plant for Permaculture sites I go immediately to comfrey (symphytum officinale). Simply by cutting a button sized piece of tap root and planting it, within two weeks a new plant emerges. In Southern Illinois I take four cuttings of the above ground portions a season and use them in [...]
Permaculture Plant of the Month
Each month we will be posting information on a significant plant for Permaculture systems: guilds, food forests, main crop, etc. Read our first post tomorrow: Comfrey (symphytum officinale). Look for the plant of the month link in the upper left hand corner of this page…
Plant Guilds in Permaculture and Plants for a Future
I found this blog to be informative about guilds, the question of which comes up several times in most Permaculture courses. We structure a guild the way a forest or an ecotone (the transition between ecosystems or habitats) or a disturbed sight recently colonized by plants, structures the groupings and layers of plants and animals [...]










