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Building
Living the Homesteader Dream – Part 2
Facing the encroaching winter and water-damage to all of the 100-year-old lumber we’d painstakingly repurposed, we had to improvise. We…
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Medicinal Plants
Yarrow for Wound First Aide
The herb yarrow (Achillea millefoleum) has had many names, attesting to its many, many uses. Its particularly well known for…
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Design
Living the Homesteader Dream – Part 1
I’ve just switched the overdrive off so the truck can more easily handle the trip up the mountain, and beside…
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General
Permaculture design for Stephan Schrotter at Cairo Montenotte, Italy – Part 2
Context The context is where the design is happening and in what condition it is before we start designing. The…
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News
Annual Prize Supports Projects Tackling Climate Change
Imagine if you could give £25,000/$34,000 directly to projects that plant regenerative food forests, help people in practical ways and…
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Bees
The mystery of the blue flower: nature’s rare colour owes its existence to bee vision
Adrian Dyer, RMIT University At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favourite colour frequently results in…
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Commercial Farm Projects
Permaculture design for Stephan Schrotter at Cairo Montenotte, Italy
This article is in three parts. The entire series will take us through a Permaculture Design Project at a property…
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Permaculture Projects
The Polyculture Project 2020 – Week 19
With the forest garden churning out new delights and the successful hatching of broody duck number two’s eggs, it’s been…
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Why Permaculture?
Why You Should Take a Permaculture Design Course
It took me a long time to get around to taking a permaculture course. By the time I did so,…
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Permaculture Projects
Permaculture Project at Patos Suertudos in Costa Rica – Part 2
Ongoing Projects: Here’s an example of the weekly planning tool I developed to keep us focused on our goals. It…
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Why Permaculture?
Ancient Gardens in Europe
Often times European/Western cultures get raked over the coals for ruining agriculture around world, which perhaps is deserved. Mass-scale monocultures…
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