One of the big themes of the podcast this year is exploring how we can find more ease and joy in our gardens this season.

And when I realized that was a theme that was going to keep coming up, I knew I needed to do an episode on permaculture, which is a practice that makes your garden more resilient and more low maintenance and more eco-friendly by capturing rain, building healthier soil, supporting pollinators, all at the same time.

It's a gardening practice that gives back to the world and to you. So I invited permaculture

designer. She's a permaculture expert. All sorts of homeowners go to her to add permaculture concepts

to their landscapes. Her name is Brandy Hall.

She owns Shades of Green permaculture, and she really is the expert of helping homeowners

rethink their landscapes from a permaculture lens for two decades, and she gives us a great

crash course. As a new homeowner, she really had me thinking about the different ways that I

could use her three pillars of regenerator of gardening and how even a small suburban yard

can become a thriving ecosystem. Let's dig in.

Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants podcast, where we not only learn how to care for plants

successfully, but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more joy

in our lives by doing so. I'm Maria, former plant killer turned happy plant lady, author

of Growing Joy, The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness, speaker, podcaster, and most importantly, your new best plant friend.

On Growing Joy with Plants, you'll find conversations about house plant care, gardening tutorials,

and wellness through the lens of plants.

Plant care is self-care.

On Growing Joy.

Hello, plant friends. My name is Maria. I'm here to help you care for plants and grow

joy by doing so. If you're new here, welcome. If you are a returning listener,

welcome home. I'm so happy that you're here. I'm excited to bring you to today's episode,

but I just wanted to ask, if you haven't

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