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The original was posted on /r/permaculture by /u/goth-jane-austen on 2024-08-04 00:06:19+00:00.

my property has been in my family for four generations. my grandpa was an avid gardener though not very aware of sustainable gardening practices at all. he left a beautiful bank of established perennials left behind him. my dad has a bizarre gardening style. he’s planted tons of big beautiful trees and shrubs because he has the money to, but he also sprays to kill all the weeds, has his landscaping guy pull up every wild plant that escapes the spray, and leaves these big bare patches of soil around his plants that are now dry fine dust or hard packed and eroded where heavy rainfalls have washed over them.

today i covered a big patch of that bare depleted soil under a maple tree with a nice thick layer of mulch. it felt like such a sigh of relief. like that earth can begin to heal. idk, i’m sentimental but it feels like such a privilege to have learned about permaculture and to be able to take care of this soil that’s taken care of my family for so many years…