Animals
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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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The Secret Life of Plankton and the Acid Test
Take a fish’s eye view of the world. It’s both beautiful and fascinating. You’ll be peering under the waves to…
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Maya Mountain Research Farm Update: Pigs and Biochar
Maya Mountain Research Farm (MMRF) is a small NGO and working farm located in southern Belize. The farm has about…
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Geoff Lawton’s Zaytuna Farm Video Tour (Apr/May 2012) – Ten Years of (R)Evolutionary Design
Paradise Dam, April 2012, from the now-climaxing food forest Zaytuna Farm Video Tour, duration 41 minutes Having spent the last…
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Paper Parks
The UK’s marine reserves offer no meaningful protection to the life of the sea. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic…
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A Small-scale, Traditional, Sustainable Way to Fish
Indigenous peoples have employed various sustainable ways of obtaining food. Using a fish trap is just one of them. by…
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Visiting an Urban Permaculture Installation, Five Months On (Video)
by Dan Palmer, Very Edible Gardens Two days ago Dan and Will returned to a large VEG permaculture design and…
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Peak Meat: U.S. Meat Consumption Falling
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute U.S. meat consumption has peaked. Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that…
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Getting Kids into Gardening, Part I: Creating a Butterfly Garden
Involving our children in hands-on explorations of the natural world is essential if we are to create a generation who…
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3CR ‘Food Fight’ Show Excerpts Evan Young on Omnivorous Diet
Zaytuna Farm – Photo © Craig Mackintosh In the middle of Winter 2011, Trades Hall in Melbourne hosted a debate…
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Mythologists of the Glen
A report on deer in the Scottish Highlands is a sycophantic paean to Balmorality and landed power. by George Monbiot:…
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City Kids Move to the Country – Part VII
My property has been behaving itself since my last City Kids update. Without the tropical downpours and flooding Queensland suffered…
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