Retrofitting
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Living the Homesteader Dream – Part 2
Facing the encroaching winter and water-damage to all of the 100-year-old lumber we’d painstakingly repurposed, we had to improvise.  We…
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Living the Homesteader Dream – Part 1
I’ve just switched the overdrive off so the truck can more easily handle the trip up the mountain, and beside…
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Constructed Wetland
In May 2018 I was invited to work in Western Australia, which was quite the milestone for me, as it…
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THREE FREE TOOLS THAT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE PERMACULTURE LAND DESIGN
I’ve been teaching permaculture for the past decade, as I feel it’s one of the best ways to deal with…
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Repurposing Wood
Not so long ago, my wife Emma and I bought our property, a place for which we’d been looking for…
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What might buildings, settlements and even regions look like through the lens of Permaculture design? Part 1
This is part 1 of 2 of a transcript of a talk given by Paul Jennings to the recent SBUKÂ Big…
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How Dry Composting Toilets Work
Dry composting toilets are an efficient, cyclical way of dealing with human waste without using and/or fouling fresh water, which…
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Win-Win Situation. Retrofitting Farm Dams to Increase Freeboard and Increase Wildlife Habitat and Productive Edge
The first thing I look for in a dam retrofit other than the spillway, is the freeboard. The freeboard is…
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Battery Technologies for Off-Grid Living
There are so many battery technologies out in the marketplace, and it is highly likely between me writing this and…
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Creating the Alternative: Inside Look into the SolTrekker
by Mo Lohre and Will Redwine Sorry for the hiatus, but would you believe we came across a few bumps…
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