Permaculture
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General
A Permaculture Poem: The System
What’s wrong with The System? It’s systemically flawed. The soil is starving, The water’s un-stored. The rivers weep And then…
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Food
Seven Ways to Start Growing Your Own Food in Small Spaces
Supermarket Strategy #7 – Seven Ways to Start Growing Your Own Food in Small Spaces Why would you want to…
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DVDs/Books
Nurturing Ecological Sublimity
Sacred-Earth Land-Nurturing, a book by Steven D Redman, has been compiled for farmers, homesteaders, land-carers, environmental educators, conservationists and more.…
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DVDs/Books
Sacred-Earth Land-Nurturing – An Introduction
Sacred-Earth Land-Nurturing, a book by Steven D Redman, has been compiled for farmers, homesteaders, land-carers, environmental educators, conservationists and more.…
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Videos
Down the Carrot Hole
In March 2020, David Trood, a master photographer, became bound to his home, like most people on the planet. His…
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Food
Edible Flowers of the Tropics
As we look to find niches and stack functions in our tropical permaculture homesteads, one often overlooked group of plants…
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General
Farming on Fork Mountain
The 4WD pickup truck bumps along the half mile dirt road to Pat Tompkins’ Blue Ridge homestead. She stops briefly…
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Animals
Happy Meat, Happy Ecosystems, Happy People
What is “happy meat?” Is meat-eating inherently destructive, or can we have “happy ecosystems” along with happy meat? What does meat-eating…
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Society
Ecological Civilisation – Introduction (Free Course)
Dr Samuel Alexander co-director of the Simplicity Institute brings to us this free online course – “Ecological Civilisation: Beyond Consumerism…
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How to
5 Questions to Help You learn from Last Year and Make the Most of This Year
This year instead of just setting New Year intentions, I looked back first to see what I could learn from…
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Permaculture Projects
The Tropical Homestead
“One must begin in one’s own life the private solutions that can only in turn become public solutions.” Wendell Berry…
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Society
The Winter Solstice
My wife Emma and I are big fans of the holiday season. Though neither one of us is particularly religious,…
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