Soil-less Gardens

Soil-less Gardens are those projects and goals in our daily lives that are not rooted in water or soil — our job, home, family, profession, classroom, education program, writing project, speech presentation, the arts, business, research projects . . . Perelandra soil-less gardens include a vital element that enhances and ensures new levels of mind-bending success — nature. In a Perelandra soil-less garden you work "hand-in-hand" with nature to provide all the matter, means and action that is required to bring your project or goal to fruition.

Machaelle Wright began her research with nature through a simple vegetable garden. She quickly learned that nature's definition of a garden is broader than we might imagine. It doesn't have to be growing in soil.

A "garden" is any environment initiated and given its purpose by humans, and maintained with the help of humans.

That changes things! Cooking, a restaurant, artwork, a museum or a memorial, design, construction, racing, an event, mechanics, business management, cleaning, governing, repairing, recycling, manufacturing, engineering . . . each of these things is a garden. It just isn't growing in soil. We call it a "soil-less garden" or "SLG" for short. Anyone can work in partnership with nature to establish, sustain and achieve success with a soil-less garden project.

The resources to begin this grand adventure with nature are listed below.

DVD: Working with Nature in Soil-less Gardens

BOOK/eBOOK: Perelandra Soil-less Garden Companion

Soil-less Garden Kit

Blank Charts and Checklists

There is a dedicated series of blog posts to take you step by step through the process of activating and working in a soil-less garden in partnership with nature.

Soil-less Garden Step-by-Step Series

Machaelle answered a number of questions related to Soil-less Gardens in a past Virtual Forum.

Q & A (Soil-less Gardens)

You can partner with nature to balance, strengthen and support your projects and goals, large and small. That may sound complicated. It's really not.

SLG Articles

And last but not least, if you need some encouragement and ideas, be sure to read people's experience working with soil-less gardens in our Voices newsletter.

Voices: Soil-less Gardens

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Perelandra Solutions for Soil-less Gardens Worksheet

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