Edible Native Plants: Grow These To Lower Grocery Bills
Edible Native Plants
Enhance Local Official's Garden
The Naturescaping Program specialist who hired me to design her property in NE Portland, Oregon, wanted her property to do more than she'd accomplished using what she knew. She was familiar with rain gardens from her job, but she sought me out to provide her with the full range of benefits that permaculture offers.
She had learned about some of the great reasons to attract pollinators to her yard, but she needed help to make that happen as well as incorporate multiple improvements in one overhaul. I decided to add multifunctional plants, that is plant species that provide more than one service. I especially wanted to show her how she could incorporate native plants she could eat, too, so that both she and the pollinators local to her area would get what they needed.
In addition to these special plantings, I included other habitat elements that are crucial for precious species like dragonflies, birds, and bees.
- I set her up to capture storm water so she could irrigate with rain in the Portland's hot, dry summer season and put rainwater to use for healthier plants, better soil, and a balanced insect and bird community.
- I added moisture-holding elements that served multiple other functions, much like the edible native plants I added to her yard; from attracting beneficial organisms that aerate as well as fertilize soil, to slowing evaporation, to inhibiting weeds.
- I regraded her site to create an underground water cache.
These are just a few of the additional components I incorporated in her master plan. When you utilize permaculture, rather than just traditional landscaping, your benefits multiply beyond what you might expect.
As a result, her property became a place she could hang out in, educate others with, protect precious wildlife, and from which she could obtain a harvest.
I developed Eco-Launchers to make it easy for anyone to increase pollinator habitat while restoring degraded land.
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