Food Forests
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General
How to make your garden drought proof, using unglazed clay pots.
A step by step guide how you can make your own ollas, clay pots for irrigation for your organic permaculture…
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General
Useful Garden Projects for Autumn Leaves
Despite having spent many of my most recent years in the tropics, and despite having grown up in Louisiana, where…
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Food Forests
Invasive Thoughts: A Battle with Conscientious Consciousness
I did a lot of research. I hummed and hawed, danced around the issue, came up with a veritable pros…
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Land
How to Green the Desert: Europe’s Heatwave and some Holistic Suggestions
In the Northern Hemisphere, the balance of light is turning ever more towards darkness as we approach the Autumn Equinox.…
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Biodiversity
Ornamental Plants That Are Edible and/or Edible Plants That Are Ornamental
When I first began growing food and working with ideas of permaculture, I lived in the tropics where many edible…
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Animals
Texas Food Forest and the Results of Good Design.
Five years ago we moved to our current property in North Texas. While the general area is not particularly challenging,…
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PDC in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Peru
Come join us June 14-27 2015 for our Permaculture Design Course. Adam Woodman author of Gabions for Gully Erosion Peru…
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Food Forest Implementation at Phayao Permaculture Center (Thailand)
Small area of food forest Introduction The Phayao Permaculture Center (PPC) is a new two acre permaculture design implemented to…
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Tips and Insights from Miracle Farms (Canada)
Recently Michelle, Rowan, Naomi and I embarked on a cross-country train trip to attend a family reunion in the eastern…
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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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My Visit to the Greening the Desert Sequel Site, November 2013
The Jordan Valley Permaculture Proejct (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’) in November 2013. (Photo: Geoff Lawton) I experienced…
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