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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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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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Chinampas 2.0 – an Elegant Technology From the Past to Save the Future
Chinampas in Tenochtitlan My name is Rodrigo Lañado and I’m known as “El Hombre de Maiz” (the maize man) and…
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Permaculture Design on the Edge – Patterns of Coastal Settlement and Regeneration
by Jason Gerhardt The author scopes out an oyster reef in Pamlico Sound, NC Photo Credit: Jason Gerhardt Being a…
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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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Planning for Permanence with Yeomans’ Keyline Scale
The Keyline Contribution to Permaculture Without Percival Alfred (P.A.) Yeomans and his Keyline concepts Permaculture as we know it would…
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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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Who Needs Grass?
The Kniskerns’ yard is a sustainable smorgasbord Over a period of less than 10 years, James and Mary Kniskern transformed…
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Permaculture at The Farm
Former stockbroker Brian Bankston now calls himself the “Keyline Cowboy” after a carbon farming course at The Farm’s Ecovillage Training…
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City Kids Move to the Country – Part IV
Editor’s Note: This article was written in mid-December, when Queensland’s rains were nothing like that witnessed of late, and which…
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Got Water?
A grassroots effort to increase, catch and store rainwater on Molokai Kanawai. Ka-na-wai literally means “belonging-to-the-waters”. Under traditional Hawaiian law…
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Letters from Sri Lanka – The World’s Largest Water Harvesting Earthworks Project
A mahout and his elephant (the elephant is the one on the left) Photos Copyright © Craig Mackintosh Preamble: Okay,…
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