Agriculture
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Desertification
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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Food
A Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Could Lead to a Sustainable Future
National Geographic in this short film shows us an example of forest gardening of food forests from the UK. Martin…
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Bees
The battle against bugs: it’s time to end chemical warfare
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Lizzy Lowe, Macquarie University;…
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Videos
An Urban Food Forest and Therapy Garden: Angelo and Lana’s Journeys
Once a novice gardener, Lana’s garden now contains 50 beds and produces enough for her to sell $500/week at the…
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Fungi
Where is the World?
Professor Claude Bourguinon, co-founder of the Laboratoire Analyses Microbiologiques Sols (LAMS), an independent soil testing laboratory helping farmers understand their soil…
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Biodiversity
Crisis, Hope, and Permaculture
A “Green New Deal” is on everyone’s lips, but how do we actually get there? Our brand new “Green is…
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Compost
A Homemade Vegan Version of Natural & Organic Fertilizer
Featured Photo : Photo: Corn, Beans, Squash, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Amaranth and Gardener Last year I worked a couple of gardens…
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Food Plants - Annual
Fixes for Nutrient Deficient Soil
Basic understanding of plant health comes from the soil they grow in. Their nutrition is vital to their health and…
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Revisiting Ethics in Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable agriculture is by nature, an ethical industry. By definition it is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive…
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Phayao Permaculture Center – Soil Building Strategies (Thailand)
The Phayao Permaculture Center (PPC) is a two acre permaculture design implemented to be the retirement farm for myself and…
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Wendell Berry – Agriculture for a Small Planet, 1974
Many will have been interested to see a video interview with Wendell Berry that I submitted previously. Here is another…
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Making Seedballs: An Ancient Method of No-till Agriculture
Dried and Finished “Clay Dumplings” What’s a Seed ball? Seeds balls are an ancient technique for propagating plants from seeds…
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