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Livestock
House Cows, Golden Eggs, and the True Cost of Cheap Supermarket Food – Part 2 – Updated
Part 1 of this Series told the story of Pixie, the house cow who made too much milk, and why…
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Plants
Forest Garden Plants – Ground Cover Plants for Deep Shade
Ground cover plants play an important role in the forest garden, protecting the soil, providing refuge for wildlife at ground…
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Animals
Snakes in the Garden
Perhaps with this being published on an Australian website, home to so many of the world’s most poisonous snakes (Check…
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Animals
House Cows, Golden Eggs, and the True Cost of Cheap Supermarket Food – Part 1 – Updated
Pixie’s Story The little house cow herd in the picture above is made up of Pixie, her bull calf, Tinaroo,…
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Storm Water
How to Build a Rain Garden to Capture Runoff
There are many reasons to build a rain garden. Rain gardens help filter out pollutants like bird guano from stormwater…
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Permaculture Projects
Polyculture Trial – Apple Polyculture vs Monoculture
I’m so looking forward to the spring to meet our Polyculture Study crew and get back into the gardens. This…
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Soil
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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Videos
All About Weeds
Weeds are a symptom, not the cause, of a problem. We can observe weeds to read the landscape, deduce what…
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Insects
Integrated Pest Management – Part 2
In part 1(1) of this article, we looked at the history of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and the spectrum of…
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Fermenting
How to make Kombucha
Kombucha is a drink made from fermented green tea that enjoys a great reputation among many people as a health…
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Soil
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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Health & Disease
Why Meditation Is Worth The Time
Despite the fact that meditation is supposed to be this groovy, relaxing thing, I used to feel somewhat intimidated by…
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Food Plants - Perennial
Okinawa Spinach
Okinawa spinach is not a spinach at all, but a perennial leafy green. The tops of the leaves are dark…
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Plants
The Essential Guide to Everything you Need to Know about Growing Grapes
The Grapevine, the Rolls-Royce of fruit, a truly magnificent plant that is super easy to grow, ridiculously productive, wonderfully seductive, flourishes…
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Plants
Nitrogen-Fixing Trees for North Carolina (USDA Zone 7)
A piece of me feels guilty when I look at trees now. I used to love them for the simple…
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