Jim Bruner 12/24/24 Jim Bruner 12/24/24

The Power of Permaculture

This is the story of systems design and permaculture in the service of sustainability on an urban farm. This collage of images showcases 7 years of successful permaculture that transformed 30 cut stems of hydrangea, and 36 cut branches into the hornbeam allee that exists at Mezzacello Urban Farm today. This is the power of permaculture.

8/29/23 8/29/23

A River Ran Through It; Alum Creek, Kerr Mill, and a Farmhouse

This house will be 155 years old this year. A quick history of the house and the land around it.

7/7/22 7/7/22

Mezzacello: Home Is Where The Lab Is

My home and my non-profit Mezzacello are the same place. This is the future of food security, creating networked gardens.

11/11/21 11/11/21

Energy Gardens For The Future of Food

After years of providing power to the garden this was the year that the garden began providing power back as a "crop".

6/3/21 6/3/21

The Manure That Infected Mars

5/5/21 5/5/21

The Rule of Sustainability - 3 and 5 Strategy

Sustainability is an important topic right now. We need more of it, and better metrics to define what "it" is.

4/15/21 4/15/21

Redefining Mezzacello

4/1/21 4/1/21

Spring 2021 at Mezzacello

3/23/21 3/23/21

Don't Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth

3/11/21 3/11/21

Changes, Evolution, and Chicken Coops

3/3/21 3/3/21

Spring 2021 and the Brunerform

An update on the gardens this spring and a candid little confessional and observation on Spring, Beauty, Life, and Fashion.

Jim Bruner 2/17/21 Jim Bruner 2/17/21

The Vision for the Formal Gardens

Six years ago around this time we started mapping out the "rooms" of the formal gardens. We cut out the sod and recycled as much of the dirt as we could and turned the rest into sod rolls for our neighbors. We had 60 rolls of sod.