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Achenyo Idachaba: How I turned a Deadly Plant into a Thriving Business
The water hyacinth may look like a harmless, even beautiful flowering plant — but it's actually an invasive aquatic weed…
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A Tool for a User-Generated Polyculture Pattern Language
This article describes the efforts of the Apios Institute to use our website to develop a user–generated pattern language of…
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Polyculture Pattern Language: Nitrogen Fixation Patterns
When Dave Jacke and I were writing Edible Forest Gardens, we discussed polyculture design extensively. We felt that we were…
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Plant Allelopathy
Plant allelopathy is the ‘chemical warfare’ among the plants imposed by one plant on another to suppress the latter and…
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How to get your Permaculture Project Funded
The biggest hurdle with setting up a self-reliant property is the upfront cost. Most of us would love to be…
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The Future of Solar Energy in the U.S. – The Case of Nevada
Solar Energy obtained a steady increase in growth rate in the recent past both globally and in the U.S. The…
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Embracing Urban Permaculture
Permaculture is both a scientific and artistic method used to design human settlements with the intention of meeting basic human…
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Converting a Swimming Pool to Grow Fish
Aquaponics is becoming an increasingly popular method of permaculture, probably because it can start with a backyard swimming pool. While…
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A Global Wiki of Perennial Crops, Polycultures, and Food Forest Sites
Designing perennial polycultures (guilds) can be a big challenge. It can be hard to find information on perennial crops and…
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Fungal Growth Energetic Constraints
Saprotrophic fungi utilize energy to grow, reproduce, and substrate digestion. To understand the mechanism of how this takes place, researchers…
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If That’s Not Permaculture, What Is?
I call myself a permaculturalist, a word that still doesn’t officially register as valid on my spell check. I read…
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Guidelines for Perennial Polyculture Design
Polyculture design can be bewildering and even intimidating. I’ve been planting and thinking about polycultures for over two decades. During…
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