How To Make a Banana Circle for an Organic Garden

A banana circle design for a permaculture site in the Dominican Republic.

A banana circle is a valuable permaculture idea. In warmer climate zones where banana trees grow, it is one of the best ways to create a sustainable edible garden. A banana circle incorporates a number of different organic gardening ideas. It is a kind of guild, or polyculture of plants that aid one another in various ways. It also allows gardeners to grow food sustainably, and makes it easier to return surplus to the system and maintain fertility in the ecosystem.

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