Plant Systems
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Talking Teds
by Zaia Kendall, PRI Sunshine Coast Using a safe deterrent for bush turkeys… A good friend of mine had a…
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How To Survive the Coming Crises (free Geoff Lawton video)
At time of writing, our Zaytuna Farm Video Tour video has had almost 11,000 views, after only six months. A…
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Tony Lovell on Soil Carbon: Putting Carbon Back Where It Belongs – In the Earth (TEDx video)
I love the nice progression of logic in this presentation. Running the numbers like this shows not only how powerful…
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Planting Days Are Here! (Al Baydha, Saudi Arabia)
by Neal Spackman This week the project started planting the swales with 1000 very hardy desert trees. The team is…
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Food Forests, Part 6: Diversity, or Picking a Garden Salad
One benefit of a single crop farm is that it isn’t hard to remember what it is that you are…
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Update on Permaculture Implementation and Design Development at Hafto Site, Hadiya Zone, Ethiopia
Editor’s Note: Regular readers will have appreciated Alex McCausland’s regular and comprehensive reports from precariously positioned Ethiopia, and the great…
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Goodbye Columbus
A.Eisenstaedt, Oklahoma Farmer 1942, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Forest gardening is about as close as any strategy comes to…
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Food from Perennial(ising) Plants in Temperate Climate Australia for September 2012
This is the first monthly post for the research project about perennial plants and perennialising annual plants providing food in…
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A Computer Geek Starts a Garden, Part I – Background, Design and Initial Implementation
The yard in winter, before work begins… A great many people today are living in fear. The future looks uncertain,…
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Lettuce Tree – Using Vertical Space for Balconies and Small Spaces
I am trying to get the most out of my balcony space. Obviously, the vertical direction is the way to…
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The All-Native Ethnobotanical Rainwater-Harvesting Food Forest
Planting at OAEC as part of food forest workshop One of the basic ideas of permaculture is that its principles…
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