For the Love of Paw Paws Online Course
Take Me to the Course! Are You Ready To Start Growing? This immersive course will teach you everything you need to know about paw … Read More
Grow Gourmet Mushrooms Mini Course
Grow Your Own Mushrooms! Join master grower Michael Judd as he guides you into the wonderful and delicious world of growing your own gourmet … Read More
Agroforestry for Small Farms & Homesteads
The old John Eyler Homestead – once completely logged – is now Regenerating into a Dynamic Food Forest
Growing Fruit at Home – Starting a Food Forest
Imagine a yard where trees are dripping with fresh fruits, shrubs are bejeweled with delicious berries, gourmet mushrooms sprout in the shade, hardy kiwis … Read More
Fruit Tree Care
Fruit trees that have been potted or transplanted often need continued care and support in balancing their form, especially for good fruit production. Fortunately, … Read More
Most Recent Podcasts
View the archives of various podcast speaking with Michael Judd. Fruitful Landscapes: the start of a food forest, with Michael Judd Read the transcript … Read More
Hugelkultur – Mounds of Fertility
Get my Hugelkultur Chapter From Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist! Hugel – What?? “Hugelkultur” roughly translates from German to mean “mound culture.” It’s … Read More
Consulting
Whether it is a first time garden or diversification of an already productive landscape our consultations are tailored to your goals and site potentials. … Read More
Volt Edible Courtyard
Top Chef competition finalist Bryan Voltaggio commissioned author Michael Judd, of Ecologia Design, to prepare an edible landscape for Volt, his restaurant in Frederick, … Read More
Agroforestry
The culture of working with trees has a myriad of relationships and benefits key to our times. The practice of “agroforestry” has been in … Read More
Talks
Talks by Michael Judd Principle designer/founder of Ecologia, Edible & Ecological Landscapes, author of Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist and For the Love … Read More
Natural Structures
Adventures in Strawbale Building The following is a chronicle of our adventures in building a round wood timber frame circular strawbale home on our … Read More
Raised Beds/Swales
When it comes to growing anything, it’s all about water. You want to catch every drop of it. Moisture in the soil builds organic … Read More
Move Over, Açai—It’s the Pawpaw’s Time – From The New Yorker
Read on at The New Yorker Michael Judd visits a rooftop garden in Brooklyn to evangelize about the pawpaw, which, if he has anything … Read More
Pawpaws & Permaculture
Interested in the intersection of PawPaws and Permaculture? This permaculture primer is your guide to introducing techniques and tips to help pawpaws thrive for … Read More
Wish You Were Here – My Story of Green Burial
This is a personal story of my fathers passing and how it has inspired me to share our green burial experience with others. A … Read More
Online Webinars
U.S. Botanic Garden Online Lecture: Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist Have you ever wondered how to have your yard and eat it too? … Read More
Garden Design & Edible Landscapes
Edible landscaping is the new American garden. Hanging fruit is one of the most beautiful features on a landscape. It hits an emotional cord, … Read More
Growing Fruits
“Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Trees full … Read More
Rain Gardens
Rain gardens basically are upside down baseball mitts in the ground, water-sinking depressions that come in many shapes and forms. They are simple imitations … Read More
Ecologia Stone Work
Stone in the landscape serves multiple functions. Obviously done well it adds massive aesthetic appeal and year round architecture to the landscape but as … Read More
Edible Architecture
The Art of Espalier, Arbors & Trellis’s – Growing fruit vertically! Growing fruit on attractive supports not only helps the plants thrive and bear abundantly … Read More
Naturescapes
Designing for wild flowers, food and wildlife adds an extra dimension to the landscape. It is an exciting way of gardening and can help our local … Read More
Earthen Ovens
What is an Earthen Oven? It is a wood fired oven made from a mixture of clay, sand and straw, that flavors and insulates … Read More
Natural Building Structures
Other considerations for natural building are horse enclosures, earthen ovens, shrines, root cellars, well houses, meditation huts, wood sheds and living roofs.