Animal Forage
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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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Intensive Silvopasture – a Win-Win for Carbon and Yield
I don’t have rights to a photo of intensive silvopasture, but in this image we have high density of leucaena…
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Reforesting With Goats
Photos: Ingrid Pullen At Zaytuna Farm we have been using our Boer meat goats to fast-track the weed-tree-infested forested valleys’…
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Plants That Attract Beneficial Insects
by Fred Hoffman Nature wants to make your job as a gardener as easy as possible; but you have to…
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Goats Better Than Chemicals for Curbing Invasive Marsh Grass (USA)
Periodic livestock grazing keeps invasive plant in check, helps restore views and biodiversity. This image shows goats in a fenced…
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Sheep Vegetation Management in British Columbia, Canada
Permaculture principle #11: Use edges and value the marginal. The interface between things is where the most interesting events take…
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Ducks in a Permaculture System (Scotland)
by James Reid, PRI Tap o’ Noth You don’t have a slug problem, you have a duck deficiency. — Bill…
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Seeding Into Frost Heaves: Leveraging a Natural Soil Disturbance Event
A close up of frost heaves A common winter sight in most cold temperate regions are frost-heaves; areas of water-saturated…
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Growing Trees and Reforestation
Acacia tree With Autumn in the Southern hemisphere it is an ideal time to plant trees, as the sap of…
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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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Building the Chicken Tractor on Steroids
"Who can weld?" Geoff asks. Keen to impress, my hand goes up. “I will see you at the shed after…
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Advanced Cell Grazing with Geoff Lawton
Last year on Permaculture News there was an excellent article on Advanced Cell Grazing by Nick Burtner who documents the…
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