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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/solxyz on 2024-08-01 17:41:20+00:00.

And let’s get specific.

Until now, my focus on my land has been establishing a food forest in which everything below the tree layer has been planted in a hyper-diverse chaos gardening style, watching to see what does well. Now I’m getting ready to plant some more orderly vegetable beds and realizing that I don’t have a lot of good models on how to design the plant communities in these beds.

On the one hand, most discussion of guilds in permaculture contexts tends to focus on the general theory and general categories (deep roots and shallow roots, ground cover, N-fixer, etc), with a few specific patterns thrown in here and there as illustration of the principle. On the other hand, a lot of discussion of companion planting in other contexts is said to be pretty unreliable. I thought it might be helpful for us to start compiling and discussing particular garden guilds that we have found to be real winners.

I’m especially interested in perennial crops, but interested in applying these principles to annuals as well.