Plant Systems
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Introduction to Naturalised Nursery Practice
Applying the understandings of ecosystem mimicry to create alternative solutions to current nursery practices of disease control, fertilisation and sterile…
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Rough, Ready, But Very Real – a November 2013 Update on the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’ Site)
Project from above, featuring a garbage-accumulating fence edge Well, you would be hard pressed to find a tougher block of…
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Food Forestry With Tom Kendall at PRI Maungaraeeda, Sunshine Coast (Qld, Australia)
by Tom Kendall, PRI Maungaraeeda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEqhNOq9jjE Tom Kendall talks about the food forest he is creating at the Permaculture Research…
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Weeds or Wild Nature: a Permaculture Perspective
by David Holmgren Summary Land design and management informed by permaculture principles tends to regard naturalized species of plants as…
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Miracle Farms – a 5-acre Commercial Permaculture Orchard (Southern Quebec)
Twenty years ago, Stefan Sobkowiak bought a commercial apple orchard with the intention of converting it to an organic orchard.…
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Permaculture Paradise at Val & Eli’s Garden (Jacksonville, Florida)
Val and Eli take us on a tour of their permagarden in Jacksonville FL. They have created a wonderful, natural…
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Mohamed Hijri: A Simple Solution to the Coming Phosphorus Crisis (video)
Biologist Mohamed Hijri brings to light a farming crisis no one is talking about: We are running out of phosphorus,…
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Hill Country Permaculture: The Way of the Fox (Central Texas)
Foxes are renowned for being clever and nimble — elusive when sought as prey and very hard to keep out…
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A Hugelkultur Pumpkin Patch (Netherlands)
This year I made a hugelkultur area in my veggie garden. I love it — they bring a nice shape…
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What Plants Talk About
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7MOe5clOtI In 1973, Lyall Watson, a South African botanist, claimed that plants had emotions that could be recorded on a…
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PRI Zaytuna Farm Internship Project – Slope Stabilisation
My chosen internship project at PRI Zaytuna Farm was to stabilize and prevent erosion on a steep slope from an…
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OrBio – a Cover Crop Strategy for Market Gardens
A bug’s eye view of the sky, from a stand of cover crop Photo © Craig Mackintosh A recent post…
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