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If you have a larger farm, how do you keep track of what’s been planted.
Our farm is 3 acres and is planted very densely.
– I started out on paper but I quickly got overwhelmed with the dozens of types of Durian I planted and I wanted to store more date of my trees.
– Now I use the app I built Fruit Forest App (for now only iOS)

What do you use? Would you try my app and give me feedback?

Too often, I find that new permaculturists narrow the field of Permaculture down to a complex gardening practice. In reality, however, I see Permaculture as a decision-making process for designing sustainable and regenerative systems—an approach that can be applied to all areas of life to support a broader transition toward a sustainable ecosystem.

As I work on new teaching materials, I’m being intentional with my language to promote a clearer understanding of the different dimensions of Permaculture.

I’m considering using the term Permaculture Land Care to describe activities aimed at increasing biodiversity, health, and land productivity.

Permaculture Social Care would refer to educational, community, and social initiatives.

Permaculture Economic Care would cover technologies, financial systems, and prosperity-related activities.

These terms are directly inspired by the three ethics of Permaculture: Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share. In my view, any Permaculture project should ideally incorporate aspects of all three.

What do you think? Do you believe that reinforcing these concepts would help beginners better grasp the holistic nature of Permaculture?

So I’ve been having some bad luck with trying to establish perennials in the more “foresty” part of my property. I’ve tried planting blueberries, honeyberries, raspberries, asparagus and some other stuff. But even with mulching they get so overrun with weeds that they end up not thriving and just being choked out. Meanwhile online everyone seems to just plant things randomly in similar overgrown forest/field settings and those do seem to thrive? am I doing anything wrong and should I just cut the weeds very regularly then?

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