The Verge Blog

How Permaculture Changed My Life, by Jen Nobel

Welcome to “How Permaculture Changed My Life”, our blog series featuring personal stories from Verge grads speaking on how permaculture shaped their careers and their lives. This time we’re featuring Jen Nobel, founder of Northbound Bloom Ecological Land Design in Timmins, Ontario: I [...]

How a Resilient Home Addresses Global Risks

This week, I want to go over a case study in rainwater harvesting design. This example is special to me because it’s about how we partnered with my mother-in-law to transform her property into a permaculture oasis. Let's roll back to the mid-2000’s. After traveling for almost four years [...]

What We Talk About When We Talk About Solar

This week, I want to go over a case study in rainwater harvesting design. This example is special to me because it’s about how we partnered with my mother-in-law to transform her property into a permaculture oasis. Let's roll back to the mid-2000’s. After traveling for almost four years [...]

Seabuckthorn: A Permaculture Crop Spotlight

Looking for an ideal pioneer species for your cold climate permaculture food forest? I highly recommend seabuckthorn, a plant that grows quickly, fixes nitrogen into the ground, and produces multiple useful yields. Here’s a video of Michelle going over it in more detail over at the [...]

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