Soil
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Compost
How to Compost Efficiently At Home?
Composting at home is a good way to recycle daily wastes into valuable fertilizer, whilst minimizing environmental impact. However, composting…
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Plants
5 gardening tips to keep your plants healthy
Sometimes, it may be difficult to know the best ways to keep your plants healthy, especially if you’re not a…
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Soil
My Little Bokashi Farm
Today I’d like to introduce you to my new roommates of eight months. They came as a matter of necessity.…
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Soil
Soil Testing: Why Is It So Vital For The Natural Environment?
Improving productivity is the core goal of each farmer, and good soils assist to gain it. Soil structure, composition, and…
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Soil
Enrich Garden Soils without Paying for Amendments
A big part of permaculture is building soil. The loss of quality soils is one of the largest, most prevalent…
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Insects
Integrated Pest Management – Part 1
In these times of global uncertainty and transition, where the globalised food system has become halted or reduced1, there is…
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Health & Disease
10 Ways to Boost Your Immune System
While it’s no time to make light of the health predicaments humanity finds itself in, there are some very simple…
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Food Forests
Four Things For An Orchard
Orchards are magical spaces and productive places, requiring relatively little maintenance. If you’re thinking of planting one, there are 4…
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Videos
The Greening The Desert Project Internship
Every year at The Greening the Desert Project in Jordan (which is a PRI approved demonstration site), Nadia and Geoff…
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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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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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Soil
Where is the World?
Professor Claude Bourguinon, co-founder of the Laboratoire Analyses Microbiologiques Sols (LAMS), an independent soil testing laboratory helping farmers understand their soil…
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