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Language and Permaculture, Part 2: Practical Ideas for How We Use Terminology
In the first part of this article I explored a few of the key terms associated with permaculture and how…
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Ways We Harvest Food on a Small Homestead
There are so many avenues of food cultivation on the Earth. Our Earth is constantly creating food for us, but…
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Toby Hemenway – Permaculture Crusader – Needs Your Help
For years, Toby Hemenway has been a crusader for permaculture and other ecological issues within the United States. At first…
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Spread the Word and Share your Harvest: A Backyard Farm to Table Tasting!
Living in the suburbs and taking on a permaculture project can be an isolating task. What keeps us motivated is…
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The Great Hay Stack
Come the end of the annual monsoon, all eyes turn to the rice paddies, watching for the ripening of the…
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Dealing with Amish Neighbors through Sharing and Bartering
I find myself to be lucky enough to have many Amish neighbors. I feel lucky because they generally make the…
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Raising Rabbits: My Source of Manure
I love raising rabbits, mainly because of rabbit pellets also known as rabbit manure. When people ask me why I…
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Language and Permaculture, Part 1: Why we need to focus on Terminology to take Permaculture to the next level.
One of the most universally applicable attractions of permaculture is that it is a practical set of design tools, based…
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Farming the Garden
How small is too small? Depending in what year you asked this question I would have given a different answer.…
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Rock Phosphate
Phosphorus is needed by plants in relatively large amounts; this is why it is classified as a primary plant nutrient.…
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Swales Bring Life to Your Soil
Everyone knows water means life, but not everyone pays attention to the amount of water going to your soil. Dirt,…
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Reducing Your Footprint When You Haven’t Built a Permaculture Site from the Ground Up
In the ideal world of most budding permaculture enthusiasts, which I still consider myself, we would have pieces of land…
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