Ancient Origins Permaculture

Ancient Origins Permaculture Permaculture Design, Food Forest, Agroforestry, Gardening coach, and Landscape design. Specializing

Place based design is vital to the balance and harmony we seek on planet earth. A plant that has naturalized and grown i...
05/27/2026

Place based design is vital to the balance and harmony we seek on planet earth. A plant that has naturalized and grown in a region for thousands of years is the best choice. If that plant can provide beauty and human fuel while also stacking functions such as biodynamic accumulation of nutrients, erosion control, mulching in place, habitat, pollinator food, and so on... well then of course, that's even better.

While we love to eat all the fruits, nuts, and berries, some projects are more about creating ecological harmony where it has been stripped away. Native garden design puts what I think are important parameters on the endless Polyculture guilds we could dream up. This is not a virtue signal. It is about real longterm success that honors culture and place while being able to provide valuable foods, medicines, and resources. Just because we can ship bananas around the world and purchase them for pennies does not mean they are healthy or that we should be doing it at all.

I didn't always think this way. When we first started Ancient Origins Permaculture, I wanted to plant anything folks would ask us to if I thought it would survive. Over the years, I've learned more deeply how flawed our thinking as a society is and the effects it truly does have on the whole of nature. In the end, it is ourselves we are robbing. Shiny new objects aren't always best. We don't need Himalayan plants in Appalachia, and vice versa.

I'll be honest, I'm a big fan of the people of the past and their place based resilience. Not only do we love watching the matrix of these designs mature and provide such beauty, but we feel good in our hearts knowing we stand on principles that truly hold the earth in balance for future generations.

The space in the photos is a quickly thrown together shaded eastern PA dryland due to slope and soil type. Not the biggest job, but the choices were made for so much more than beauty. The earth itself reshaped for much more than beauty, now water can be harvested naturally and plants that belong here can thrive on their own and provide just as they always have.

What do you do on a rain day? Personally, I mulched at For the Future Community Forest Garden because I couldn’t find ot...
05/21/2026

What do you do on a rain day?

Personally, I mulched at For the Future Community Forest Garden because I couldn’t find other time. Then I delivered a ton of natives to a cute townhouse project we’ll build out tomorrow rain or shine. Hopefully shine.

In all seriousness, we need a good long soak. Here’s to the rain and the life we would never have without these things we take for granted.

Speaking of things we take for granted, how about one another... The second set of photos here is of the folks who showed up on Community Day to help us plant and bring For the Future Forest Garden to life in East Vincent Township at The Park on the Ridge. I sincerely can’t thank each of them enough, and I also can’t thank the Township enough for running with a child's idea and then offering the space to allow us to bring it to life.

It was a task at times. The big take away is that we were able to orchestrate this offering to the community. It is a beautiful return to how food used to be grown and harvested in this land long ago.

Peace, Love, and Permaculture,
Tyler

PS. Here is a link if you're interested in learning more about this specific project.
https://www.eastvincent.org/index.asp?SEC=30D6975B-8A84-4F45-83B8-EC492F19746E

What does it mean to be human? We play pretend, as far too many of us are now entirely incapable of the feats our ancest...
05/15/2026

What does it mean to be human? We play pretend, as far too many of us are now entirely incapable of the feats our ancestors accomplished. Most of us are honestly more machine than man, and it shows.

Conveniently, the machine with all the answers never really is accurate. Generic responses aren't a nuanced solution. AI makes promises, but nothing is a replicator of deep dives into your own research. Also, they never explain the real cost for what is simply too cheap and too easy to be true.

We've already rapidly integrated these technologies into our lives to an extent that they are embedded and almost unavoidable if you participate in the modern world. No guiderails, just captains of industry, true robber barons telling us what's best. They'll be dead wrong for the sake of profiteering while we fall for the SLOP they've made of our lives.

Creativity and compassion aren't manufactured on machines. Real change happens within human hearts, with human minds and human hands. Think whatever you want about that statement.

Maybe creativity, togetherness, and earned knowledge are better answers. The "real" work isn't always easy, but it's always satisfying to know our integrity prevented us from contributing to further ecological and societal collapse.

Haven't you been lied to enough. Time to listen to your mother. We share her with all life and we only have one.

Peace, Love, and Permaculture,
Tyler

I've been entirely too busy,strewn about in many directionslike spring spreading green.The news is always"breaking",full...
05/13/2026

I've been entirely too busy,
strewn about in many directions
like spring spreading green.

The news is always
"breaking",
full of depression,

stories from war,
and fashioned to fill
with misdirected rage.

For a moment,
I am just a boy in his garden,
choosing peace
in a strawberry patch.

Oh let me recall
when the world has forgotten

I need not anymore.

Your friend,
Tyler

Update: Due to quite a rainy forecast, Community Planting Day at The Park on the Ridge in East Vincent has been changed ...
05/08/2026

Update: Due to quite a rainy forecast, Community Planting Day at The Park on the Ridge in East Vincent has been changed to Sunday May 10th @ 10AM.

For the Future Forest Garden is a Permaculture Learning Commons that will serve as a living model of regenerative design—restoring soil, honoring regional food traditions, and inspiring present and future generations to become skilled stewards of the land.

Through shared harvests and shared learning, we aim to strengthen food security, ecological health, and a culture rooted in reciprocity with the living world.

Mission Statement

Designed in Partnership with Ancient Origins Permaculture. For the Future Forest Garden exists to cultivate regenerative abundance through education, ecological design, and community stewardship. Rooted in permaculture principles and inspired by the traditional foodways of the Eastern Woodlands, we restore the land while growing nourishing food for our community. Through hands-on learning, shared harvests, and collaborative care, we foster resilient ecosystems, resilient people, and a deeper connection between culture, soil, and place...
We all need to eat, but industry has divorced us from the land and it’s inhabitants who are not named human.

The ratio of how much we think we have figured out in comparison to how much we have forgotten is an embarrassment to human kind. Values, cultures, and entire ways of life in cohesion with ecosystems have been lost to the dusty winds of industrialization. We have so much information, but little time or understanding of the hands on skills that keep us tethered to the earth and to our humanity.

We know we can do better. We must forget the unnatural apparatus built by the corporate world in order to remember what was always provided for by our only earth and it’s inhabitants.

Currency is more than numbers in our accounts. In the end what is most valuable has always existed and we simply walked away.

We are grateful to provide others with a chance for a happy return.

Peace, Love, and Permaculture,
Tyler

Come join us on Saturday, May 9th, at the Community Park on the Ridge from 10 AM to 2 PM, to learn about the East Vincen...
05/04/2026

Come join us on Saturday, May 9th, at the Community Park on the Ridge from 10 AM to 2 PM, to learn about the East Vincent Township Food Forest project! You will have the opportunity to learn about, and to assist with, the planting of a native forest garden that will feed our community the ancestral foods of our region!

Mission Statement:

Designed in partnership with Ancient Origins Permaculture, the “For the Future Forest Garden” exists to cultivate regenerative abundance through education, ecological design, and community stewardship. Rooted in permaculture principles and inspired by the traditional foodways of the Eastern Woodlands, we restore the land while growing nourishing food for our community. Through hands-on learning, shared harvests, and collaborative care, we foster resilient ecosystems, resilient people, and a deeper connection between culture, soil and place.

Vision Statement:

We envision a thriving, biodiverse landscape where food, knowledge and community are cultivated in harmony with nature. For the Future Forest Garden is a Permaculture Learning Commons that will serve as a living model of regenerative design - restoring soil, honoring regional food traditions, and inspiring present and future generations to become skilled stewards to the land.

Through shared harvests and shared learning, we aim to strengthen food security, ecological health, and a culture rooted deep in reciprocity with the living world.

Come plant some trees and be part of a regenerative agriculture project that honors the past while protecting our shared future.

10AM this coming Saturday, May 9th.

04/24/2026

EVENT POSTPONED TO MAY 10 at 10:00AM.

The Township is starting a PERMACULTURE project… planting, learning, and building something that can grow over time and benefit the entire community! In partnership with Ancient Origins Permaculture, East Vincent is planning its first Food Forest at the Park on the Ridge.

May 9th at the park if you want to be a part of this worthwhile project:

https://www.eastvincent.org/index.asp?SEC=DBA5002D-5A70-4FD3-A453-FDB5B8D881E4

Wuzzup? Just me, Tyler, chillin' with the homies! It's not everyday you get to pick up truck loads of trees and plants f...
04/23/2026

Wuzzup?
Just me, Tyler, chillin' with the homies!
It's not everyday you get to pick up truck loads of trees and plants for projects paid for out of the hearts of folks who care about the future (We happen to be donating our time to this as well).

Permaculture is for everyone and that's why we are a mission driven business. No matter if the project is big or small, the purpose remains to regenerate what has been lost in the soil and our way of life.

We are all individuals, each with our own liberty. Together, we can turn away from industrial agriculture where products are grown in plastic, sprayed, and shipped across the world. Instead, we can grow regional and local regenerative and perennial foods responsibly.

Teaching the future that our soil and our time is currency more valuable than dollars is a hard lesson. I'm thrilled to have people who understand this reach out for projects like our upcoming native food forest at East Vincent Township Park.

Honestly, we love our purpose. Even if you find us strange, haha. We are grateful for every bit of permaculture we can share.

Peace, Love, and Permaculture,
Ancient Origins

Happy Earth Day! Observation is often the mother of invention. Intentional design that actually works with the earth req...
04/19/2026

Happy Earth Day!

Observation is often the mother of invention. Intentional design that actually works with the earth requires this learned skill.

Of course observation must lead to a plan, and then someone who cares enough actualizes these intentions. Through sharing of knowledge first, then being physically willing. The work is built in the mind, and then with heart and hands.

We are each the silent soldier. The ones who see and do what must be done inspite of the reality that our true responsibility is no longer understood.

There’s many reasons we have a world full of loss. A world of hurting human beings who are desperate to be seen and heard by a system literally built to make them feel like a subservient failure...
We will not be another reason. We will lead by example. That is what permaculture is, an example.

Maybe you aren’t spiritual, but just as the good book is to the soul, a permaculture knowledge base serves the body, the land, and fills the mind with purpose.

It’s not some self serving mission for accolades. If anything, we prefer the life of a loner. Many nature loving folks enjoy the solitude, but choose to serve because they really do just care. It is not because we desire attention. We speak because we must.

The prize for this is an understanding of ancient knowledge, holding space for traditions like local food and culture. The prize is land that doesn’t need any plastic to provide. This is a big one. Please stop thinking farming needs plastic! Our ancestors did not know what plastic row cover or drip lines were.

The prize is nutrient rich soil for the futures sake. The prize is habitat coupled with production that can last and feed folks for centuries. This earth day, I hope you step into your personal ring for mother earth. I hope you find the fight worth training for even if it has to be in silence.

It’s woven in the fabric, all of creation relies upon you and the choices you make. May your heart be light knowing the good your hands have done.

Peace, Love, and Permaculture,
Tyler

$82 US dollars to fill the work truck today. We always have more for GOOD OLD WAR. AM I RIGHT?Compost is still free behi...
04/02/2026

$82 US dollars to fill the work truck today. We always have more for GOOD OLD WAR. AM I RIGHT?

Compost is still free behind the barn.

Thank heavens for the permaculture knowledge to make and mend from the land as good as or better than can be purchased.

This is not the prettiest pile ever, but it's got everything a compost pile should have. I have literally gone through the effort to verify that under a microscope.

Not only does it smell like a fresh forest duff layer, but we can see a high amount of balanced activity, with bacteria vibrating, protozoa swimming, and nematodes moving... This indicates a healthy, living, and mature compost.

Good organic compost, when viewed under a compound microscope at 100x-400x magnification, should show a diverse, active ecosystem of microorganisms, indicating decomposition and nutrient cycling.

Wetmount testing is pretty simple. Put a drop of compost on the slide, then place a drop of water on it. Next put a cover slip on top and find your focus. Lastly, watch the magic of carbon chain breakdown and soil being built right before your very eyes.

What to look for includes bustling bacteria, branching fungi (white and often stringlike mycelia which is colonized enough to obvious to the naked eye when turning the pile), moving protozoa (amoeba, ciliates), and beneficial nematodes (these will be the worm like looking critters in your sample.

You can tell a lot by the smell of a pile, by the temperature, by the moisture, and by squeezing it in your hands. It should want to crumble if touched gently, but should form a nice structure when squeezed. It does not have to be super fine, but it should be getting dark or almost black, and there should be no whole foods left.

As you are checking on your compost or wondering where to order some in the excitement of spring, I hope this helps inform your decisions.

Peace and Permaculture,
Tyler

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