Animals
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The Perfect Permaculture Fish Pond
Geoff's 800 square meter pond is shaped like a soup plate with a perfectly flat 2m deep bottom, ideal for…
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Goat Observations: Herding Loose Goats
All photos by David Ashwanden Animal attention When interacting with any animal it is important to develop a certain kind…
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A Horse Education at Zaytuna Farm
The author with Star Photos: Erik Klockemann Ever since the rise of the combustion engine, horses have had less and…
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Beekeeping – An Essential Part of Permaculture
Beekeeping can be labour-intensive during certain times of the year. Working with bees requires a gentle touch and calm disposition.…
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How Goats Built My Food Forest and Gave Me Fuel for My Rocket Stove
When Geoff Lawton told me that he had discovered a novel way to use goats to design his food forest,…
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Less Than 3 Percent of Oceans in Marine Parks Despite Recent Growth
by J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute Photo credit: Dr. James P. McVey, NOAA Sea Grant Program In May 1975,…
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How to Grow Chickens Without Buying Grain – by Only Feeding Them Compost
Whilst on a tour of the US, Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton was giving a talk at Montpelier, Vermont, when a…
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Aquaponics on the Cheap!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaKDQiWYJow You don’t have to be loaded to get started with a really simple aquaponics setup! As a variation on…
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Rough, Ready, But Very Real – a November 2013 Update on the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’ Site)
Project from above, featuring a garbage-accumulating fence edge Well, you would be hard pressed to find a tougher block of…
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A Worm Farm in Your Duck Coop! (Alaska)
In my last article I discussed the challenges of keeping ducks in backyard permaculture. There are two primary problems, at…
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Report on a Permaculture Internship – Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge (Sept-Oct, 2013, Ethiopia)
Editor’s Note: Beginning 2 December 2013, Alex is running another PDC at the developing Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge in southern…
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Ducks in Backyard Permaculture (Alaska)
Here in the northernmost tip of North America’s temperate rainforest, Alaska’s infamous cold meets some of the wettest weather in…
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