Food Forests
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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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Bone Sauce: A Tool for Deterring Browsing
Applying the bone sauce Bone sauce is a product of the destructive distillation of bones — a process which separates…
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Life in Season: What to Do with All Those Mangoes (& Other Harvesting Conundrums)
We knew it was coming. Hell, we were excited about the fact that it was coming. We were returning to…
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Fernglade Farm – Autumn Update (May 2014, Victoria, Australia)
Well, the summer just past was interesting. Heat and drought were constant companions in all parts of the Australian continent…
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Designing Food Forests Across Three Climate Zones with Geoff Lawton
Got 10 minutes? Here’s a great little video of Geoff Lawton outlining the construction of food forests across three different…
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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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Agroforestry Support Species for Cold Climates
A silk tree in my garden, serving as living trellis to arctic kiwifruit; also shade provider for shade crops including…
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Spring: Season of Perennial Vegetables in the Cold-Climate Garden (MA, USA)
Excerpted from Paradise Lot by Eric Toensmeier with contributions from Jonathan Bates. Bates and Toensmeier will be hosting a perennial…
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Hardy Gingers for the Food Forest Understory
Turmeric (Curcuma longa) can handle 5°F/-15°C. The rhizomes make a great tea and are wonderful shredded into stir-frys or cooked…
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Permaculture Seed Planting on Holiday
I spent the last two months in the Philippines, and had a great experience with seed planting with local kids…
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Seeds of Permaculture – Tropical Permaculture (video)
An interactive film about permaculture in the tropics, with education and inspiration as the main threads running through this hour-and-a-half-documentary.
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Bhaskar Save, the Gandhi of Natural Farming
Sage of a minimalist farming system based on non-violence and all of nature’s biodiversity that produces in abundance with no…
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