The Power of Self-Seeding Landscapes
Greetings from Coastal California! Depending on your context you may be working too hard. Are your landscape aesthetic needs making you cringe at an over grown garden? I get it! I know that feeling to want to have a beautiful looking landscape and that itch to get out...
Erik Ohlsen on Globalized Localization
On April 8, Erik Ohlsen was a guest on The Permaculture for the Future Podcast, a program of the...
Pandemic Resilience Garden: Harvesting Best Practices
In this video, we review the best ways to harvest so you can make the most of your gardening...
Pandemic Resilience Garden: Cover Crops, Sheet Mulching, & Bed Prep
In this video, I walk through the steps you can take to prep your beds for summer...
Pandemic Resilience Garden: The Economy of Nature
Take a video tour of the Ohlsen Homestead, where I delve into a different kind of...
Erik Ohlsen Featured in Sonoma Magazine
In Sonoma Magazine's March/April 2020 edition, Erik Ohlsen was asked their "Gateway Question."...
The Power of Self-Seeding Landscapes
Greetings from Coastal California! Depending on your context you may be working too hard. Are your...
The Fires Will Return, Avoid Catastrophe Through Right Relationship
3 Lessons I Learned from a Native American Ecologist in the Midst of a California...
Reading Spring Blossoms
An important strategy for designing a food forest system is to choose plant species...
Eagles, Floodplains, and Permaculture
Greetings From the Floodplain, Listening to the land and observing the relationships...
Spring Vegetation Management of Nutrient Pumps
Greetings from a blossoming California, With the vernal equinox around the corner...
Natural Check Dam Captures Massive Erosion
Greetings from the Creek Bottom! While hiking in a beloved park I came upon this...
Pruning a 100-Year-Old Apple Tree
Greeting from a 100 Year-Old Apple Orchard! I live on a small patch of what was once a...
Earthen Pond Water Harvesting System
Greeting from …Uh, Earth? Catch and Store water from your homestead! Check out this...
Roof Water Harvesting: Part 1
Greetings from (hopefully) rainy California! Today we are talking about catching the...
Raging Wildfires in California Part 1: Destruction through Mismanagement
As I write this, wildfires continue to rage in Northern California just 40 miles from...
From Drought to Deluge: An Ecological Approach to California’s Water Crisis
Climate change is the greatest threat to human civilization and a major driver of...
Raging wildfires in California (part 2)
Originally published by Resilience.org. If you haven't read part one of this article,...
Reading The Land After Fire
Rising from the ashes, the land responds to the 2017 California Firestorm. Check out...
The Future of Landscaping is Ecological: 5 Tips for Professionals and Homeowners
Landscaping is a massive industry in the United States grossing over 70 billion...
