Permaculture
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Food Forests
What is a Food Forest
Forests are ecosystems with a diversity of plants, animals, and fungi. They were designed by nature to have perfect balance.…
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Demonstration Sites
Herbs of Zaytuna – Mint
On our last stops of the herbal tour of Zaytuna Farm we met Rosemary, Yarrowand Aloe. This stop is with the iconic, delicious, aromatic…
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Design
Spring in the Gardens, Fruit Trees in Blossom and Ground Covers
Just one week to go before the arrival of our 2019 Polyculture Study team and we’re getting ready and looking forward to…
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Desert Green: Jordanians on frontline of climate change turn to permaculture
This article by Marta Vidal was first published in Middle East Eye Olive, lemon and palm trees provide shade over…
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Animals
Permaculture Patterning With Animal Systems – Part 1
Animal systems can be used to clear gardens for permanent systems, or they can be used as part of system…
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Earthworks & Earth Resources
The Earthen Spillway Project
The Picture To put things into perspective, our dam is relatively shallow, peaking out at maybe two meters. It’s fed…
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Design
Designing a Small Forest Garden
I really think that your small garden can be a forest garden, because to be a forest garden is more…
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Soil Rehabilitation
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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Plants
Herbs of Zaytuna – Aloe Vera
So here we are, on the Zaytuna Farm Herb Tour. We met Yarrow here and after him, the most multi-functional plant…
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Design
Theory In Practice : A Tour of Zaytuna Farm
Take a sweeping 20-minute tour of our 66-acre Zaytuna Farm property. Throughout, I explain specific features of the farm, how…
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Videos
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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Insects
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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