Soil
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Permaculture in Damaged Lands: Degradation and Restoration in New Mexico
A certain coal-strewn road in Madrid, New Mexico — the remnants of a now defunct railway. Alternately barren and spectacular,…
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Swale Fail?
Editor’s Note: It’d be great if more people would share their successes and failures in similar fashion as Greg has…
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Who Needs Grass?
The Kniskerns’ yard is a sustainable smorgasbord Over a period of less than 10 years, James and Mary Kniskern transformed…
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Permaculture at The Farm
Former stockbroker Brian Bankston now calls himself the “Keyline Cowboy” after a carbon farming course at The Farm’s Ecovillage Training…
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Greeks Reclaim the Land to Ease the Pain of Economic Austerity
A group of community-minded gardeners have turned a former Athens airport into a blooming vegetable plot, showing how Greece’s eroded…
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Hugelkultur: Composting Whole Trees With Ease
What is it? Hugelkultur is a composting method that uses large pieces of rotting wood as the centerpiece for long…
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The Jean Pain Way
In the book Another Kind of Garden, the methods of Jean Pain are revealed. He spent his entire short-lived life…
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ABC Rural Talks to Matt Kilby About Farm Restoration Through Installing Trees and Swales (Podcast)
Consultant Matt Kilby stands before one of the swales he has put in at Gippsland farm, Nambrok. Photographer: Kath Sullivan…
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Greening the Desert Video – now also with French Subtitles
Many thanks to Jeremy, Christina, Erik, Lamia and Kristen for all the work that went into creating the French translation…
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Urine: Closing the NPK Loop
The Stockholm Environment Institute conducted experiments and collected data that shows the usefulness of a resource every one of us…
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