Soil Conservation
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This Zero-Cost, Waste-Eliminating Practice Can Produce Abundant Crops from Healthy, Restored Soils for Generations to Come
Photography by Jasmine A Koster What is zero-cost, waste-eliminating and can restore soils to fertility to produce abundant crops for…
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Swales (Continuous Contour Trenches) Bring Water and Life Back to Maharashtra, India
This (unfortunately low-res) video shares the clear, practical benefits of bringing sensible low-tech Permaculture water harvesting techniques such as swales…
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Experimenting with Overflowing Circles and Slow-Flow Swales (Panama)
The jungle garden I am not Bill Mollison or Geoff Lawton, they will both happily report; rather, I am but…
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Fred Kirschenmann: Soil – from Dirt to Lifeline (TED video)
Fred Kirschenmann has been involved in sustainable agriculture and food issues for most of his life. He currently serves as…
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Nitrogen: the Double-Edged Sword
Dutch clover cover crop between cabbage rows Nitrogen is a component of protein and DNA and as such, is essential…
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The Secret Of El Dorado – Terra Preta
In this documentary a legendary civilization thought to be too good to be true on the basis of the stories…
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Report on 5-Day Permaculture Workshop for the Etse Fewus Herbalists Association in Fitch, North Soha, Ethiopia: Part 2
Continuing from Part 1. Sunday 21/09/14: Day 4 The group were very happy with the biole preparations we did on…
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Tiger Hill Permaculture: Phase 1, Water Harvesting Earthworks
In February 2011 I took over the farm, ‘Tiger Hill’, in Tasmania, Australia. The planets aligned at that time in…
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Intensive Silvopasture – a Win-Win for Carbon and Yield
I don’t have rights to a photo of intensive silvopasture, but in this image we have high density of leucaena…
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How to Prepare and Take Care of a No-Dig Vegetable Garden (Slovenia)
Welcome to no-dig gardening. This is a tutorial which is written in a form of questions and answers. Questions will…
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TERA (Tracked Earth Repair Apparatus) For Large Scale Earth Repair
“Mechanized labour” in the form of earthmoving equipment, tractors, and the myriad attachments that may be utilized in conjunction with…
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Composting Toilets Made From Wheelie Bins
I just read a post on composting toilets here on the PRI site and remembered that I never posted about…
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