Medicinal Plants
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Self-Sufficiency and Survival Foods… Are You Prepared?
Planting a garden with food potential is one of the most valuable things we can do. Will we always have…
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City Kids Move to the Country (and One Moves Back Again) – Part VI
Pit-falls, projects and laughs from our Permaculture journey. Ah… Autumn… beautiful! “It’s just too hard!” the voice in my head…
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My Beloved Weeds
by Mari Korhonen I’ve been exploring the world of edible weeds, and so found a new layer of bounty in…
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The Grass Isn’t Greener…
by Rob Avis If you’ve been following permaculture, then you’ve probably been hearing about Permablitz – the transformation of lawns…
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Contentious Perspectives on Weeds
Adam Grubb holds up some shepherd’s purse on an edible weeds walk Photo: Phuong Le The permaculture movement has long…
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Lessons from an Urban Back Yard Food Forest Experiment
Editor’s Note: Some of you may remember my Magic in Melbourne post, where I covered the back yard of a…
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Wa`a Moloka`i: Island-Sized Food Security Through a 21st Century Living Canoe
Original Atrwork by Anthony Dohanos of Pahoa, Hawaii Food security and canoes go hand-in-hand in Hawaii. When the Hawaiian Islands…
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Use of Biological Resources in Establishing a Food Forest
by Tom & Zaia Kendall, Queensland, Australia This article talks about how we use biological resources to direct and accelerate…
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Sustainable Tropical Agriculture Systems in Southern Belize
by Albert Bates Getting to the Maya Mountain Research Farm in southern Belize is its own wild side adventure. You…
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All About Borage
Beautiful. Traditional. Functional. Therapeutic. What am I talking about you say? Why borage of course! Borage is a wonderful plant…
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Enset – the ‘False Banana’ Gives Food Security and More
The really fascinating thing about south Ethiopia is its diversity, both cultural and ecological. And the crossover between these two…
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