Food Plants – Annual
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Preparing Our Children For a Resilient Future, Part II: Food Security
I doubt many would disagree that food is one of the most important things that we are going to need…
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Pasture Cropping: an Integrated Approach to Grain and Pasture Production
Harvesting oats as green native perennial pasture grows up between the cereal rows (Seis, 2006) Pasture cropping is a farmer-initiated…
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Raised Beds and Soil Rehab with Yard Waste
Clean up Over the last two years, here in South West Pennsylvania, a snow and wind storm knocked down a…
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Permaculture: a Path Toward a More Sustainable Amazon?
Originally published on Mongabay.com An Eco-Ola permaculture plot with yuca, beans, sacha inchi, bananas, charapitas, herba luisa, and moringa in…
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Perennial Plants and Permaculture
Currently, approximately 80% of the food crops grown in the world are annual plants, and it’s been this way for…
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Geoff Lawton’s Zaytuna Farm Video Tour (Apr/May 2012) – Ten Years of (R)Evolutionary Design
Paradise Dam, April 2012, from the now-climaxing food forest Zaytuna Farm Video Tour, duration 41 minutes Having spent the last…
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Plant Families – Patterns in Nature
Climbing bean flowers have only one axis of symmetry A practical thing botany teaches is too look at similarities and…
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Getting Kids Into Gardening, Part IV: Creativity in the Garden
Inspiring our children to develop an enthusiasm for gardening is a wonderful gift we, as parents or caregivers, can give…
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Getting Kids Into Gardening, Part III: Creating a Resilience Garden
Hands-on experience in getting the most out of a garden is going to be an invaluable skill in the challenging…
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Food Forests, Part 3: Closing the Loop
Local legend around here has it that at some point in the past a guy by the colourful name of…
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Indigenous Land Management Practices in the USA (Videos)
I’ve been interested in indigenous land management for many years, but since the publication of M. Kat Anderson’s phenomenal Tending…
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Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi – Watch for Free
In September 2008 Seed Savers released their first film, “Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi”, a 57 minute documentary that celebrates…
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