Food
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Life at Zaytuna – Meet Red
Editor’s Preamble: People are increasingly disgusted with the cruelty, disease and pollution associated with factory farms. Events like the recent…
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An Urban Gardener Feeds a Community
Bronwyn’s urban backyard is teeming with diversity. It is providing local families with nutritious food through her Community Supported Agriculture…
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BK Farmyards – a Subversive Urban Farming Concept
Here’s a worrying trend – people growing food in back yards! Whatever next!? Stacey Murphy is obviously an enemy of…
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Life at Zaytuna – Potato Storage Tip
Mmm…. I don’t know about you, but potatoes are one of my favourite foods. Here at Zaytuna we were a…
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Permaculture Main Crops of Special Importance – Salad Mallow
Salad Mallow (Corchorus olitorius) (Mulaheyah, Egyptian Spinach, Jews Mallow) Salad Mallow was the first name I knew for this amazing…
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How to Turn Astringent Persimmons into Enchanting Natural Confections, Japanese Style
by Cecilia Macaulay This week I’m shopping for a persimmon tree for the Edible Japanese Garden I’m creating. Of course…
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Jerusalem Artichokes – like Diamonds, are Forever
PIJ #54; March – May 1995; page 47 Margaret Lynch explains how to grow, store and prepare the edible section…
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Get Behind the Raw Milk Campaign
by Cathé Fish of Practical Permaculture Help Raw Milk Diary Producers in Australia! As you probably know, many small dairy…
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Strange Fruit
A hard commercial logic dictates that the only way to get good fruit today is to grow your own. by…
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Look Mom, There’s a Farmer in Our Back Yard
Normally the words ‘business’ and ‘environmentally friendly’ do not fit harmoniously together in one sentence, but here’s a money-making venture…
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A Refrigerator that Runs Without Electricity
Sometimes there are simple solutions to universal needs that don’t require coal fired electricity, fossil fuels, or even solar panels…
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