Soil
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Slash-mulch: High-Productivity, Regenerative Farming without Fertilizer, Plastics, Poisons, or Tilling.
This material is adapted from the upcoming book Beauty in Abundance, now on pre-order. Thanks to the Permaculture and Regenerative…
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My Little Bokashi Farm
Today I’d like to introduce you to my new roommates of eight months. They came as a matter of necessity.…
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Soil Testing: Why Is It So Vital For The Natural Environment?
Improving productivity is the core goal of each farmer, and good soils assist to gain it. Soil structure, composition, and…
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Enrich Garden Soils without Paying for Amendments
A big part of permaculture is building soil. The loss of quality soils is one of the largest, most prevalent…
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The Biomass Belt Revisited
Back in May of 2016, I published an article on an experimental polyculture for meeting the fertility demands of the…
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Breaking Ground With Dynamic Accumulators
Since the term was first introduced in the 1980s, the use of dynamic accumulators on the permaculture homestead has become…
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How fungi’s knack for networking boosts ecological recovery after bushfires
The unprecedented bushfires that struck the east coast of Australia this summer killed an estimated one billion animals across millions…
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Making Mushroom Beds and Growing Organic Wine Cap Mushrooms
After moving to Western North Carolina and the Blue Ridge Mountains, Emma and I became fixated with mushrooms. Our life…
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How to Make Compost
The joy of seeing a home garden thrive is akin to seeing a child grow in the way we desire.…
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Natural Services From A Cultivated But Somewhat Unmanicured Lawn
It occurs to me that the disdain of lawns amongst many of us sometimes makes it sound as if the…
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The Greening The Desert Project Internship
Every year at The Greening the Desert Project in Jordan (which is a PRI approved demonstration site), Nadia and Geoff…
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5 Reasons Why You Should Plant Cover Crops
In permaculture, one of our main preoccupations is that of building soil and fertility. It’s a means by which the…
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