Plant Systems
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Shifting to Community-Scale Food Thinking
This week I received all our yearly seed catalogs, and, as usual, started planning feverishly. How many is too many…
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Rwanda – Forests of Hope
Many of you will remember the inspiring and encouraging example of earth restoration found in the story of the Loess…
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Read the Plants, Read the Landscape
Observation is a key element of permaculture design, and plants can help us to understand the landscape under our feet.…
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Food Forest Workshop at the PRI’s Zaytuna Farm
Would you like to have food for your family now and into the future — food that is truly fresh…
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June in Dan, Amanda, & Ciela’s Garden, Melbourne, Australia
by Dan Palmer A few weeks ago, Dan and Ciela took a stroll around the garden and checked out the…
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Positive Examples of Agricultural and Community Transformation in Kenya
I’m adding the following clips as a positive supplement to the preceding post. I think it’s important to see that…
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City Kids Move to the Country (and One Moves Back Again) – Part VI
Pit-falls, projects and laughs from our Permaculture journey. Ah… Autumn… beautiful! “It’s just too hard!” the voice in my head…
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My Beloved Weeds
by Mari Korhonen I’ve been exploring the world of edible weeds, and so found a new layer of bounty in…
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What Happens When We Stop Observing?
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. —…
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Hemp for Victory?
I figure this video will stimulate some potentially useful discussion. It features portions of an interesting WWII-era production, titled Hemp…
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From Grass to Habitat Garden – Our Front Yard 2005-2011
A detailed account of the transition from a sparse and chemical dependent landscape to an ecologically diverse and resource efficient…
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