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Hugelkultur raised bed gardening. This is perhaps one of the most ancient of the no-dig gardening techniques for growing fruit and vegetables, originating in the Black Forest region of Germany, it has been around for many centuries. Created as a way to grow food in areas where good arable land was limited, the Hugelkultur makes use of material that would otherwise be discarded as useless - forest debris and other garden waste.

Growing vegetables in a raised bed grid garden (a.k.a. square foot garden) is a great way to maximize your vegetable growing efforts, and at the same time dramatically reduce your workload. A grid garden is simple to assemble and operate. Growing in one-foot squares means that you can truly maximize your vegetable production in an environment that is great fun to operate and will assure a regular harvest of healthy vegetables. If you are growing vegetables in raised beds, then your production and crop rotation can be maximized by using the simple techniques employed in grid gardening.

Hugelkultur, also sometimes referred to as hugel bed, is a permaculture gardening technique for growing vegetables in heaps made from timber and covered over with topsoil. In this short introduction to a well established but little known growing concept, you will discover what it involves and how it can be used to great advantage particularly in dry arid regions. With a proper understanding and application of this simple technique, vegetables can be grown with minimum irrigation—and less backache!

You're excited, you're enthusiastic...and you're just a little bit nervous. Don't worry—all new dads and first-time dads feel this way. Discover how to prepare yourself for success. Pregnancy and a new baby is a scary concept to new fathers, but imagine if there was some sort of a new dad's survival guide or a first-time dad's pregnancy handbook? Something that gave the best pregnancy tips for dads and offered a way to win at parenting? Let's call it the New Dad Playbook to Win at Parenting!

Imposter syndrome is an unavoidable pitfall for all of us in the healing and helping professions. We mistakenly believe that the key to overcoming it is lies in mastering our occupation. In truth, overcoming imposter syndrome requires coming to terms with our identity holistically and attending to our unhealed wounds.