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Water
Water Conservation and Management for Permaculture
Water is perhaps the most essential natural resource. It gives life to plants and has allowed for rich biodiversity in…
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Swales
A Walk though My Food Forest Swale System After a Rain Event at Nine Mile Farm
Every year the amount of rain we put into the ground per inch that falls increases. In this walk though…
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Design
My Permaculture Design Mistakes
Like anyone, I find it much more inspiring to talk about gardening and building successes. That rhubarb we planted last…
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Water
Collecting Clean Water from Polluted Sources with Natural Filtration Systems
Being involved with permaculture helps one develop a mild obsession (and that’s putting it mildly) with water. Long before I…
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Videos
Back From the Drought with a Vengeance
Back from the drought with a vengeance, over 300 ml of rain has fallen on Zaytuna Farm, and Geoff is…
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Design
Zaytuna Farm And The Nightcap Bushfire
Geoff has just returned to Zaytuna Farm after three months of consultancies and international aid work. Australia has been ravaged…
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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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Animals
Texas Food Forest and the Results of Good Design.
Five years ago we moved to our current property in North Texas. While the general area is not particularly challenging,…
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Experimenting with Overflowing Circles and Slow-Flow Swales (Panama)
The jungle garden I am not Bill Mollison or Geoff Lawton, they will both happily report; rather, I am but…
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Aquaculture
Cold Climate Permaculture Video
A lot of people wonder if they can apply Permaculture design to their farm if they live in a cold…
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Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Internship
Looking back to 2011, I recall the fond memories of our internship at PRI Australia. We had been volunteering and…
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Swales: The Permaculture Element That Really “Holds Water”
by Rob Avis Michelle, Rowen and I were driving home from a vacation in the mountains when we passed by…
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