Food Plants – Annual
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Adding Calcium One Egg at a Time
by Rick Pickett, Eco-Ola Building soil fertility in the humid tropics is a difficult project. Not only because the soil…
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Vandana Shiva and Geoff Lawton Talk Together About Freeing the Seed
Regular readers will know we are doing what we can to support Vandana Shiva‘s "Occupy the Seed" campaign, running between…
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Perennial Food Plants, Food Forest Gardens, and Food Security
This article and research proposal were initially inspired by reading Eric Toensmeier’s article User-Generated Food Forest Resource is Online, encouraging…
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A Victory Garden’s First Year in Six Slide Shows (North Carolina, USA)
November 2010-November 2011 went by quickly with a lot of hard labor double digging our compacted clay to see us…
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Perming the ‘Burbs in Queensland, Australia
With 80% of Australians living in the suburbs, this reality is a hurdle for responsible edible landscapers who know that…
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‘Quaquaponics’ – How to set up Aquaponics with Ducks!
You don’t need to eat fish to set up a backyard aquaponics system! Ducks are a great alternative and produce…
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Manifestos of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture
by Navdanya International The Manifesto on the Future of Seeds outlines ways and means to strengthen and accelerate the movement…
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Abundance in the Garden: the Backyard Grocery Store
Our abundant garden: pineapple, leeks, spring onions, strawberry beds, greens, broccoli and numerous other edible plants visible in this picture.…
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How to Attract Beneficial Predators & Pollinators
It was recently reported in a research study conducted by Michigan University that predatory insect attracting plants saved American farmers…
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Method for Beautiful Gardens with Little Work
Now I will share with you my Beautiful Gardens with Little Work method, so you can enjoy a nice garden…
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Share the Love – Seed Saving
Onion going to seed When I started to take an interest in permaculture, one of the first things I wanted…
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