Food
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A Happy Garden
When growing a garden, we rarely plant just one vegetable or fruit. We like to have many of favorites growing…
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Are Bugs More Nutritious Than Meat?
A new research study shows that eating edible insects could provide as much or even more iron and other micro-nutrients…
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Reducing Your Footprint When You Haven’t Built a Permaculture Site from the Ground Up
In the ideal world of most budding permaculture enthusiasts, which I still consider myself, we would have pieces of land…
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Installing an Urban Food Forest – Updated
Last year, the city of Pottstown, Pa., saw new growth and opportunity in the world of permaculture, as several local…
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How and Why to Rotate Your Annual Crops
Sure enough the bulk of us permies are working to establish perennial sources of food, cultivating food forests for high…
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The Peace in Knowing Yeast: How to Brew Your Own Ginger Beer
I knew there was something wrong when the fraternity brothers put codeine in the keg, when my friends got so…
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Getting Consistency in Cheesemaking
The seasonal differences in the milk flora sometimes create unwanted results in the end product. There are things you can…
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Successional Planting Spreadsheet Tool
After reading an article in the latest Pip (Australian Permaculture magazine) a couple of weeks ago on pages 38-42, about…
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Natural Cheesemaking
We spend money on sachets of cultures for different types of cheeses and moulds for aroma and washing, rennet and…
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Learning More on How to Think about Soil
I don’t know why it is, but I’ve taken to waking up at about five every morning. I kiss my…
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The Food Forest: A Shining Example Of Permaculture in Australia
A direct pupil of Bill Mollison, the father of permaculture, Geoff Lawton takes his decades of experience on the road,…
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How to Harvest Enough Dry Beans and Other Legumes to Feed a Family
I’ve been growing beans now for a while. They are a big part of my diet, and the nitrogen-fixing bacteria…
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