Regenerative gardening blog

An experimental garden 8 months into soil regeneration

This blog focuses on the regenerative gardening theme, but there is also an art blog and a blog including all the writing on art and gardening on this website.

My latest direction in regenerative gardening is gardening against extinction, or gardening for wildlife, while protecting food plant diversity. Of course the solution is to use native plants for both and there are many many reasons for it that I hope to outline with time.

Below that you will find some elements of regenerative gardening due to new experiences after the following: the 4 regenerative questions series, and below that the 'how to' series with 12 simple tips for regenerative gardening. These 12 tips were the first project for the regenerative gardening blog, a series of articles designed to make it really easy to do regenerative gardening, one task at a time. This comes in response to a demand for simple and practical suggestions, tips and activities. I wrote a polemical article titled poly-regeneration, but based on the reaction, I see that many people prefer practical solutions on how to do it, rather than theory.

Tap on the green text in each entry to go straight to the blog posts. The practical, how to series sometimes duplicates some topics I've written on in greater depth, so I will link you to those topics as we go.

Gardening against extinction

December 14th, 2021.

The benefits of snails. What are they really doing in your garden ?

December 8th, 2021.

Snail behavior: senses, brain, learning, mating and feeding.

December 3rd, 2021

How do snails build and grow their shells ?

December 3rd, 2021.

How snails move.

November 27th, 2021.

Snails and what to do about them, an introduction.

November 9th, 2021.

A trip into the wild and being an activist's child.

October 20th, 2021.

Learning about small secretive mammals and more in the Cape Flats Nature Reserve.

October 16th, 2021.

Beginner's workshop on growing South African plants.

October 21st, 2021.

Grow against extinction ! Garden for wildlife using native food plants.

Elements of regenerative gardening

May 13th, 2021

Know our native plants. The hedge plant with benefits. Gymnosporia.

Jan 30, 2021

Shock. A new discovery about water.

Dec 23, 2020.

It matters so mulch ! What is mulch, what are its benefits and how to get it free.

Nov 12, 2020.

Growing trees from seed

Transplanting seedlings.

4 Regenerative questions

Dec 19, 2020.

Should I go regenerative ?

Dec 5, 2020.

How does one do

regenerative vegetable growing ?

Dec 1, 2020.

Am I really a regenerative

gardener ?

Nov 24, 2020.

Aren't regenerative and

organic the same thing ?

Growing trees

12 Simple steps to a regenerative garden :

Nov 6, 2020.

Summary of activities. .

Benefits next !

Nov 4, 2020.

Regenerative activity 12.

Tell your neighbours.

Oct 31, 2020,

Regenerative activity 11.

Grow native trees from seed.

Oct 26.2020.

Regenerative activity 10.

Make beer for your plants.

Oct 25, 2020.

Regenerative activity 9.

Sow biodiverse cover crops.

Oct 16, 2020.

Regenerative activity 8.

How to make biochar.

Oct 15, 2020.

Regenerative activity 7.

Feeding worms

Oct 13, 2020.

Regenerative activity 6.

Know your weeds better.

Oct 12, 2020.

Regenerative activity 5.

Making laundry and dish soap with KOH.

Oct 8, 2020.

Regenerative activity 4.

Clipping for diversity.

Oct 7, 2020.

Regenerative activity 3.

Drenching with dilute urine

Oct 9, 2020.

Regenerative activity 2.

Trampling weeds.

6th October, 2020.

Regenerative activity 1.

Clipping for fertility.

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