Garden Girl Farm: Your premier permaculture education spot in Southern Oregon.
Permaculture is a way of designing garden spaces that function more like healthy natural ecosystems. It helps people grow food, conserve resources, and build regenerative communities with less waste and more resilience.
Regenerative farming is a way of growing food that rebuilds soil, supports biodiversity, and strengthens the long-term health of the land.
A food forest is a layered garden of edible perennial plants designed to mimic a forest ecosystem and produce food, habitat, and long-term sustainability.
Meet 5-Acres of Glorious Soil
A - Front Orchard: Strawberries, Peaches, Apples, Cherries, Onions, Figs, Calendula, Grapes, Plums, Roses, Chives, Garlic, Echinacea, Rudbeckia, Medlar, Shasta Daisy, Black Elderberry, Aronia, Artichokes & Bee Hive (No Bees).
B - Pollinator Garden: Calendula, Rosemary, Poppies, Mugwort, Lambs Ears, Sage, Milkweed, Showy, Lavender, Manzanita, & Bee Hive (No Bees).
C - Medicinal & Superfood Orchard: American Black Elderberry, Hops, Peonies, Goji Berry, Aronia Berry, Grapes, Blackberries, Artichokes, Fennel, Lavender, Squash, Tomatoes, Daikon Radish, Yarrow, Zucchini, Lemon Balm, Asparagus, Black Seed (Love-in-a-mist), Borage, Goldenrod & Calendula.
D - Fruit & Berry Guild: Blackberries, Elderberries, Comfrey, Strawberries, Currants, Raspberries, Tay Berry, Thimble Berry, Grapes, Kiwi, Plantain, Nettle, Peonies, Calendula, Peaches, Jujube Tree, Goumi Bush, Raspberry, Rosemary, Red Salvia, Oregano, Pineapple Guava, Cherries, Hawthorne Berry, & Apples.
E - Herb & Vegetable Garden: Brussels Sprouts, Kale, Broccoli, Strawberries, Comfrey, Horseradish, Lemon Basil, Lemon Balm, Daikon Radishes, Feverfew, Purple Nettle, Pineapple Weed, Squash, Pumpkin, Sweet Peas, Borage, & Hyssop.
F - Chicken, Ducks, Geese Pin & Run + Composting and Worm Bin and Potting Station: Paw Paw & Blue Elderberry.
G - Hügel Mound: (A horticultural technique where a mound constructed from decaying wood debris and other compostable biomass, plant material is layered as a raised bed used to help improve soil fertility, water retention, and soil worming.): Peaches, Apricot, Staghorn Sumac, Grapes, Raspberries, Kiwi, Blackberries, Sunchoke, Artichoke, Egyptian Walking Onions, Potatoes, Calendula, Clary Sage, Lambs Ear, Nettle, Persimmon & Black Seed (Love-in-a-mist), Yarrow.
H - Back Orchard: (Hügle Mound + Chicken Run) Walnuts, Almonds, Peaches, Mulberries, Pomegranates, Hazelnuts, Onions, Goldenrod, Plantains, Figs, Chestnuts, Red Clover Flower, Calendula, Apricots & Oak Trees.
I - Native Blue Elderberry Orchard: Rogue Valley Native Blue Elderberries
J - Hayfield: No Mow Strip for Pollinators.
Teamwork
Terry and James bought 5 acres in Southern Oregon in 2016. After years of rehabilitating the soils with permaculture principles, the land has flourished, producing thousands of pounds of produce, herbs, tinctures, syrups, and more. Garden Girl Farm has become a haven for native bees, worms, friends, family, animals, and community.
Terry makes the magic; James does the heavy lifting. All are welcome at the farm, and they can’t wait to meet you!
The Future is Permaculture
Working with Nature
Permaculture is about designing with nature, not against it. It offers a practical way to grow food, restore soil, and build more resilient landscapes and communities
Creating for the Future
Whether you are creating a garden, a farm, or a larger land project, permaculture principles can help you use resources more wisely and support long-term health for people and the planet.
Abundance and Sustainability
From food forests to regenerative farming, these systems show how thoughtful design can create more abundance with less waste. The goal is not just to produce, but to regenerate.