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Design
Tips For Productive, Low Maintenance Food Gardens
If we make our food gardens as much like natural ecosystems as we can, full of diversity and interconnections, they’ll…
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Soil
How to start composting
Making compost is the single best thing you can do for your garden because it adds organic matter to the…
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Compost
How to Compost Efficiently At Home?
Composting at home is a good way to recycle daily wastes into valuable fertilizer, whilst minimizing environmental impact. However, composting…
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Animals
Deep Litter Composting With Chickens
An earth floor, deep-litter system has big benefits for the health and well-being of chickens, and it’s also the easiest…
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Soil
My Little Bokashi Farm
Today I’d like to introduce you to my new roommates of eight months. They came as a matter of necessity.…
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Soil
Breaking Ground With Dynamic Accumulators
Since the term was first introduced in the 1980s, the use of dynamic accumulators on the permaculture homestead has become…
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Compost
How to Make Compost
The joy of seeing a home garden thrive is akin to seeing a child grow in the way we desire.…
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Plants
5 Reasons Why You Should Plant Cover Crops
In permaculture, one of our main preoccupations is that of building soil and fertility. It’s a means by which the…
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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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How to Increase the Rate of Biological Nitrogen Fixation
This short article is a chapter from my book “Fertilizer for Free: How to make the most from Biological Nitrogen…
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Animal Forage
How to Grow Chickens Without Buying Grain – by Only Feeding Them Compost
Whilst on a tour of the US, Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton was giving a talk at Montpelier, Vermont, when a…
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Worm Bin and Chicken Poop Compost Catch
by Rick Pickett, Eco-Ola Rehabilitating degraded land in the Peruvian Amazon requires utilizing many tools in ecological agriculture’s arsenal. We…
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