Soil Rehabilitation
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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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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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General
Weeds Aren’t Actually All That Bad
Weeds, many say, are but misunderstood plants, plants that have somehow fallen out of favor. Often, they are ready growers,…
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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
Ducks in a Permaculture System (Scotland)
by James Reid, PRI Tap o’ Noth You don’t have a slug problem, you have a duck deficiency. — Bill…
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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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Maximum Yield Cropping System (MYCS)
There are many economic, social and environmental benefits to be gained by increasing the current yield from existing food production…
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Managing the Working Chicken (video)
Almost everyone who is exposed to permaculture concepts has seen the above graphic (from Bill Mollison’s Introduction to Permaculture). It’s…
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Reversing Climate Change in Just Ten Years, With Plants!
We are all pretty concerned these days about the ongoing battle for biodiversity and life on this planet. With new…
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John Todd Living Machines Lecture
I’m so blown away by the work of John Todd. He works on a huge scale cleaning horrendous toxins out…
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A Computer Geek Starts a Garden, Part I – Background, Design and Initial Implementation
The yard in winter, before work begins… A great many people today are living in fear. The future looks uncertain,…
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