Plants
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Fixes for Nutrient Deficient Soil
Basic understanding of plant health comes from the soil they grow in. Their nutrition is vital to their health and…
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Real food does not come from supermarkets: 6 steps from bare ground to homegrown cauliflowers
I imagine that when our grandchildren and great grandchildren read in history books about the supermarkets we relied upon for…
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Straw Bale Gardens
What do straw, paint brushes and the human blood circularity system have in common? The answer is capillaries, very narrow,…
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Permaculture chickens – 6 practical lessons from the evolution of chickens
One of the fundamentals of permaculture design is to observe, understand and work with natural ecosystems. It sounds simple enough…
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Ornamental Plants That Are Edible and/or Edible Plants That Are Ornamental
When I first began growing food and working with ideas of permaculture, I lived in the tropics where many edible…
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8 Abundant “Fodder Forest” plants, and how to use them
This morning when I went to feed the animals I thought I’d start with collecting some pigeon pea for our…
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Planting by Schedule & Plagiarizing Instinct
With a recent transition from the wet-dry tropics to Zone 7b in temperate USA, this year’s planting schedule has been…
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What to do with bad soil
After watching the sun set and the full moon rise atop my neighbour Sergey’s hill which overlooks the entire eco-village,…
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Flexitarianism
DISCLAIMER: These are my thoughts and experiences on what can be a deeply cultural, charged and personal topic: diet. There…
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Texas Food Forest and the Results of Good Design.
Five years ago we moved to our current property in North Texas. While the general area is not particularly challenging,…
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Raised Garden Beds in the Bush – Growing Your Own Food in Poor Soil Conditions
“We acknowledge and pay respects to the Dhurga people of the Yuin Nation, the traditional custodians of the Country where we…
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Pure Hop-iness
When you hear the word hops, you may think of beer or bunnies. While I love the ever-bouncy bunny, I’m…
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