Animal Forage
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Pig Tractors
Pigs in Vietnam Photos © Craig Mackintosh unless otherwise indicated I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look…
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Why Pasture Cropping is Such a Big Deal
Pasture cropped oats growing in symbiosis with native perennial pastures at Col Seis’s farm Grain cropping is something that, for…
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An Agriculture that Stands a Chance: Perennial Polyculture & the Hard Limits of Post-Carbon Farming
More and more articles are being written that continue to hit the proverbial "nail on the head". This one was…
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Managing Gorse (Ulex europeaus) – a Permaculture Approach
by Samantha Downing If you’re a first generation farmer and you manage to find a dirt cheap property to begin…
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Holistic Management
Allan Savory has an interesting background. Amongst his experiences, he is also a biologist. I think this will have served…
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The Wonderful Multi-Purpose Comfrey Plant
Comfrey (Symphytum spp.) has been cultivated and valued by many cultures for almost 2500 years. A native to Europe and…
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The Power of Enterprise Budgets: Permaculture, Holistic Management, and Financial Planning
Resource alert: At bottom of this blog post is a download option for more than a thousand enterprise budgets. Permaculture…
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The Farmers Are At It Again
There they go again, making liars out of us, undermining our critique that their industry is contributing to the wholesale…
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Green Manure Resources
Editor’s note: Red clover is a useful leguminous green manure. Growing taller than other clovers, it can be easily cut…
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Permacooking – Milk, Tongue, Eel and Pizza Night
More Meat I promised last week that I would tell you about the cows here at Zaytuna and I’m going…
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Grazing and Browsing? Forage Trees and Shrubs for Horses
By Mariette van den Berg B.(Hons), MSc. (Equine Nutrition) This photograph © copyright Craig Mackintosh Introduction Within the Equine industry…
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Vetiver – One Grass Revolution
During my relatively short time in the Permaculture movement I have only heard Vetiver mentioned a few times. Could it…
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