Food Plants – Perennial
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Geoff Lawton’s Zaytuna Farm Video Tour – Part II
Last year I took some time out to make a Zaytuna Farm Video Tour for you all (embedded here, with…
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Top Five Fruit Trees for Canberra Backyard Food Forest Gardens
As we move into the winter months here in Australia, it’s a great time to start planning and design your…
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If You Plant It, They Will Come – Friendly Pollination Practices
Blazing Star and Little Sulphur (source) Encouraging pollinators into our gardens is one of the biggest contributions we can make…
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Cow Horns, Weeds and Worms (Lesotho)
Miles Durand (right), in Lesotho Introduction Lesotho is a small, mountainous country in Southern Africa. There has been an alarming…
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Companion Planting Chart
Click for larger view Further information: Companion Planting Information and Chart Companion Planting Guide Biodiverse Systems are More Productive
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Food from Perennial(ising) Plants in Temperate Climate Australia, for April 2013
This is the mid-Autumn post for the ongoing research project about perennial plants and self-perpetuating annual plants providing food in…
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Mark Shepard’s Proven Technique – “Sheer, Total, and Utter Neglect” (video)
Broadacre permaculturist Mark Shepard takes us on a tour of his 106-acre farm, where he grows dozens of crops with…
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How Plants Repel Insects – an Observation of Monarchs, Brix and Nutrient Dense Plants
I will always remember this day, as my first day actually witnessing a practical understanding of the Reams Biological Theory…
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Chinampas 2.0 – an Elegant Technology From the Past to Save the Future
Chinampas in Tenochtitlan My name is Rodrigo Lañado and I’m known as “El Hombre de Maiz” (the maize man) and…
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Next-Generation Polycultures
Excerpted from Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Urban Oasis…
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Food from Perennial(ising) Plants in Temperate Climate Australia for March 2013
This is the early Autumn post for the ongoing research project about perennial plants and self-perpetuating annual plants providing food…
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Staple Fruits of the World
This article is an excerpt from my forthcoming book Carbon Farming: A Global Toolkit for Stabilizing the Climate with Tree…
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