Plant Systems
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Learning About Permaculture Design from Organic Annual Vegetable Farmers
Some people will tell you that there is no place in permaculture for annual crops. I’m known as something of…
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Weeds – What Are They Good for? (Victoria, Australia)
The subject of ‘weeds’ has always seemed to me to incite far more controversy than it should. The best description…
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Spontaneous Organization for Polyculture
I think one reason monocrop agriculture has pervaded history is mental simplicity. It is a process that removes all possible…
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Over 1 Hour Presentation on Food Forest Establishment (video)
by Jack Spirko This is a presentation I gave in November 2013 when we installed the swales for our 3/4th…
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Brooklyn Grange: A Rooftop Farm in New York (video)
Geoff Lawton at Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm “That view behind me is not a painted backdrop!” said Geoff Lawton to…
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Cold Climate Permaculture Video
A lot of people wonder if they can apply Permaculture design to their farm if they live in a cold…
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How Goats Built My Food Forest and Gave Me Fuel for My Rocket Stove
When Geoff Lawton told me that he had discovered a novel way to use goats to design his food forest,…
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America’s Forgotten Food Forest Suburb
Years ago, Permaculture founder, Bill Mollison made a TV series called Global Gardener. In a 10-minute segment of that series…
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Desert Food Forest and Organic Commercial Production in Three Years – Update on Wadi Rum Consultancy (Jordan)
Outside the fence On August 6, 2010 Craig Mackintosh posted on my initial consultancy for the site I’m reporting on…
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Addressing the Causes of Land Degradation, Food/Nutritional Insecurity and Poverty: a New Approach to Agricultural Intensification in the Tropics and Subtropics
by Roger RB Leakey, Agroforestry and Novel Crops Unit, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.…
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My Visit to the Greening the Desert Sequel Site, November 2013
The Jordan Valley Permaculture Proejct (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’) in November 2013. (Photo: Geoff Lawton) I experienced…
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