Tobias Roberts
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Oct- 2017 -30 OctoberAnimals
The Importance of Pasture: How to take Advantage of What Animals Bring to the Farm
While barns are important on any farm, keeping animals on pasture is almost always the better option. Pasture raised animals…
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25 OctoberEnergy Systems
The Need to Limit Energy Use
Energy: An Addiction or a Necessity? Energy is arguably the most defining aspect of industrial civilization. For the first couple…
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22 OctoberGeneral
The Importance of Guilds and Nitrogen Fixers
How is it that the natural world provides excessive abundance while not relying on any external sources of nutrients? Nature…
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21 OctoberGeneral
What Zone 5 Has Taught Me
Defining those infamous “zones” across your landscape is one of the first and most cherished challenges that newcomers to permaculture…
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18 OctoberCompost
The Top Composting Toilet Designs
One of the most unsustainable aspects of our current civilization is related to how we deal with our own waste.…
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16 OctoberAnimals
The Perks of Raising Chickens
For many people who have grown interested in gaining a certain sense of autonomy through taking responsibility for growing a…
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13 OctoberSoil
A Primer on Creating Soil
Good agriculture depends on good soil. The problem over the past 10,000 years of our human attempt to live off…
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11 OctoberGeneral
Ethical Investment Harbors
Investing locally in Ethical Companies One of the defining characteristics of our modern day civilization is that our language has…
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10 OctoberSoil
The Truth behind Shivansh Fertilizer
In recent months, the internet has exploded with talk of Shivansh fertilizer that is supposedly revolutionizing agriculture in India and…
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9 OctoberGeneral
The New Suburbanism
Many people in industrial societies live in the suburbs which are really neither city nor country living. Many people have…
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6 OctoberGeneral
Questioning the Growth Economy
If you have ever driven through rural Kentucky or Ohio or Pennsylvania, chances are you have run across a horse…
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5 OctoberGeneral
What Defines Appropriate Technology?
Our Current Addiction to Technology If there is one defining aspect of our modern civilization it´s that we are a…
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