When the concept of sustainability moves past buying things labeled “green” into personal action, the cold hard truth is that…
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The main thing in renewable energy systems is the embodied energy: the energy over the lifetime of the product versus…
This is Part 4 in a Series about using Permaculture design principles to train your “lizard-brain” – a name I’ve…
How to determine a starting point for surveying: Dams For me the starting point to survey is often a dam…
This is Part 3 in a Series about using permaculture design principles to train your “lizard-brain” – a name I’ve…
So, you have been contacted by a client and you’ve discussed the client’s brief. You’ve started to look at the…
I love discovering new, useful plants to incorporate into garden design schemes. Of course, there are a great number of…
This is Part 2 of a series about the “lizard brain” – made up of the oldest parts of the…
With organic gardening, especially at the outset, comes a few new challenges for transitioning growers. Pesticides and other chemicals…
Did you know there’s a lizard in your brain that’s the source of all your resistance to difficult, boring,…
Weeds, many say, are but misunderstood plants, plants that have somehow fallen out of favor. Often, they are ready growers,…
Like any new venture, starting an urban farm is a daunting and difficult task. Not only do you have to…
Six months into our pool to pond conversion and the problem really has become the solution. For some time, we…
A common problem when just starting a garden is dealing with the fact that we’ve not had time to condition…