Earthworks & Earth Resources
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Hugel Swales May be a Bad Idea
Ok, so this conversation has been addressed in the correct way and was explained by Jack Spirko at http://permastaging.wpengine.com/2015/11/06/dont-try-building-hugel-swales-this-is-a-very-and-i-mean-very-bad-idea/. This…
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Creating the Mainframe Design for our Farm
This article is about how we figured out our mainframe design for roads, swales and ponds/dams. The pictures that show…
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Evolutions on Mr. Phiri’s Water-Harvesting Plantation, 1995–2016
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to return to Zimbabwe and to the farm of some of my prime…
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Infrastructure: Dams, Roads and Swales
In the past 2 years a lot of our focus was on getting the main infrastructural elements in place. We…
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Morocco Project Update
The earthworks have progressed nicely and below is a series of photos of when we were installing the earthworks and…
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Mogendoura Earthworks 1 Year On
Recently I had the opportunity to check out the earthworks performance where I installed a mainframe design in January 2015.…
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Save our Soils
All terrestrial life depends on soil, directly or indirectly. Although our understanding of topsoil has grown by leaps and bounds…
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Onsite in Jordan at “The greening of the Desert, The Sequel”
I am facilitating a Permaculture Design Certificate course over the next two weeks. We have eleven students that have come…
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To Swale or Not To Swale
Do you want to protect your property from flooding and drought? What’s a swale? A swale is a excavated depression…
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Geoff Lawton Goes to Malaysia
Murujan Permaculture Design is a growing and dedicated group of Permaculturalists, based in Malaysia working to spread awareness and education…
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