Breeds
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5 Best Chicken Breeds and Picking The Perfect Flock Mate
Struggling to choose the right breed for your flock? Read on to learn about five of the best! In this…
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Permaculture chickens – 6 practical lessons from the evolution of chickens
One of the fundamentals of permaculture design is to observe, understand and work with natural ecosystems. It sounds simple enough…
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How to Set Up and Maintain Your Own Flock of Chickens
The idea of keeping chickens at home is one that appeals to a growing number of people around the world.…
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Permaculture for Pastoralists in the Jordan Valley – Part I
Awassi sheep ready to go to market (and random standards inspector) I’ve been to the Greening the Desert “Sequel” site…
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Urban Garden Demonstration Update (New Zealand)
by Kay Baxter, PRI New Zealand (Koanga Institute) This is an update on our urban permaculture garden experiment which integrates…
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Ducks in Backyard Permaculture (Alaska)
Here in the northernmost tip of North America’s temperate rainforest, Alaska’s infamous cold meets some of the wettest weather in…
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Of Mice and Men and Chooks
Some of the motley chook collective A good mate of mine described the chook (chicken) collective here as a “motley…
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Geoff Lawton’s Zaytuna Farm Video Tour – Part II
Last year I took some time out to make a Zaytuna Farm Video Tour for you all (embedded here, with…
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A Complete Guide to Using Slugs as a Resource with Indian Runner Ducks
This article is for all those people out there who are under regular attack from the cursed slug. If you…
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Integrating Livestock in the Food Forest
Cattle grazing under alder in silvopasture system at Las Canadas, Huatusco, Mexico Integrating livestock seems to be the best way…
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VEG Design Solutions, Part One: the Chicken/Fox Filter
by Dan Palmer, Very Edible Gardens When designing edible gardens, a site-specific problem will often crop up. One of the…
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Animal Systems at HEPA, Vietnam
At SPERI’s Human Ecology Project Area we have a number of Farmer Field Schools (HEPA FFS) which are host to…
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