Garden Design | Permaculture: Learn How To Maximize Yard To Grow Food, Attract Wildlife
Permaculture, a design system for edible gardening focused on sustainability, ease, organic practices and land nourishment, is gaining momentum around the South Sound.
Local homeowners are opting in for a way of gardening that allows for maximum diversity, edible produce and wildlife habitat.
Sustainable Tacoma-Pierce, a community group that organizes many local sustainability and permaculture events, is holding its second Tacoma-based permaculture design course from September through February.
Folks can discover what it’s all about during a free information night Thursday.
“Many people choose to study permaculture for the sheer enjoyment of growing food and living in more sustainable neighborhoods,” said Kelda Miller, a permaculture professional and course organizer who runs Divine Earth garden design in Puyallup.
An added benefit, Miller said, is that 33 percent of permaculture design graduates go on to create their own businesses in fields such as garden design, home retrofit, water management, neighborhood energy systems and more.
Patricia Menzies is a course graduate who found the course completely changed her yard, as well as her view on using her own land.
“You learn how to modify what you have,” said Menzies, whose North End Tacoma house had a complete backyard permaculture redo as one of the parts of last year’s course.
Assisted by course participants, she covered her lawn with mulch, pathways, fruit trees, shrubs and food perennials.
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