Water
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Chinampas: How to Put Them in Small-Scale Designs
Anyone who has paid much attention to Bill Mollison or Geoff Lawton, which hopefully is most of us reading Permaculture…
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10 (Temperate Climate) Pond Edge Plants
In permaculture, water is one of the primary concerns because all life, from animals to plants to fungi to bacteria…
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How To Cultivate and Cook Wild Rice
When most of us think of rice, we envision paddies cascading down the mountainside of Vietnam or Indonesia. We think…
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Forest Garden Plants, River Irrigation, Paulownia Coppice & Garden Bees –
It has been a relaxed week here in Shipka where the main focus has stayed on the market garden, we…
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Building a Permaculture Homestead
Are you thinking about building a permaculture homestead? Just imagine the possibilities that living on the land in harmony with…
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Juicing Up Your Jargon – Part 2
I’m so pleased with the reception to my previous glossary article, “10 (or More) Common Garden Terms in Permaculture”, that…
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Greywater Problem? Plant Food Solution!
Moving into a new rental house (again), it was time to unroll the hose snaking from the recently arrived washing…
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Create an Artificial Manmade Wetland
So how does one in the 21st century minimise wastewater discharge in the CAFO, food processing and sewage treatment systems…
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To predict droughts, don’t look at the skies. Look in the soil… from space
Another summer, another drought. Sydney’s water storages are running on empty, and desalinisation plants are being dusted off. Elsewhere, shrunken…
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Ponds can absorb more carbon than woodland
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Mike Jeffries Associate Professor, Ecology,…
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Leaky Weirs
I cant swim, but I’ve been fascinated by water all my life and have learnt water harvesting and storage design…
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Constructed Wetland
In May 2018 I was invited to work in Western Australia, which was quite the milestone for me, as it…
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