permaculture design
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Aquaculture
Integrating Aquaponics Into Your Permaculture System
Sustainability has become a key focus for many people, and the popularity of sustainable living is increasing. Unfortunately, the world’s…
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General
Living the Homesteading Dream – Part 7
I’m in the middle of the garden, dusk just tipping into darkness, wearing nothing but my underpants when I realise…
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Insects
These 3 tips will help you create a thriving pollinator-friendly garden this winter
The busy buzz of pollinating bees is a sound most of us associate with summer. If you live…
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Water
DIY Universal Measured Irrigation Controller Kit User Manual
Introduction to the DIY Universal Measured Irrigation Controller Kit Measured irrigation is an irrigation scheduling method that satisfies the following…
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Courses/Workshops
A Free Introduction to Permaculture with Geoff Lawton Videos
Permaculture has been consistently growing in popularity for the last four decades. As contemporary regimes have further proven themselves in…
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Building
Living the Homesteader Dream – Part 2
Facing the encroaching winter and water-damage to all of the 100-year-old lumber we’d painstakingly repurposed, we had to improvise. We…
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Design
Living the Homesteader Dream – Part 1
I’ve just switched the overdrive off so the truck can more easily handle the trip up the mountain, and beside…
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Earthworks & Earth Resources
A Simple Principle to Overcome Permaculture Design Overwhelm
When you’re face to face with your new property, planning to create your safe, self-sufficient permaculture farm there – where…
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Bees
The mystery of the blue flower: nature’s rare colour owes its existence to bee vision
Adrian Dyer, RMIT University At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favourite colour frequently results in…
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Commercial Farm Projects
Permaculture design for Stephan Schrotter at Cairo Montenotte, Italy
This article is in three parts. The entire series will take us through a Permaculture Design Project at a property…
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Why Permaculture?
Ancient Gardens in Europe
Often times European/Western cultures get raked over the coals for ruining agriculture around world, which perhaps is deserved. Mass-scale monocultures…
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Trees
A Year in the Life of a Deciduous Tree and Understanding Our Role as Facilitators
Unlike other methods of growing food, in permaculture, we try to understand the natural order of things and do our…
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