Plant Systems
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Crop Rotation – A Vital Component of Organic Farming
Long before we had synthetic fertilisers to maintain the land’s nutrients, and chemical pesticides and herbicides to keeps pests and…
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Zone Four Chop and Drop
Even though its getting to the end of the wet season and is possibly a bit late I have started…
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Upside-Down Tomato Garden DIY
We know that a lot of people want to grow tomatoes but simply do not have a backyard spacious enough…
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Food Forest “Chop and Drop”
Even though I would like to see more rain the “wet season” is here. This means that rainfall is higher…
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Sprouting Good’s Aquaponics
We would love to introduce you to the wonderful world of Aquaponics. Aquaponics is the cultivation of plants using the…
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Permaculture Animals as a Discipline to the System
The use of animals in permaculture design is a fundamental aspect which provides diversification of a system as well as…
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Nature Did It First (and best).
Aquaponics are a very interesting development in the world of permaculture and offer some great benefits and advantages. Let’s take…
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Poisonous Mushroom as the Medicine of the Future
“The difference between medicine and poison is dose” Paul Stamets on the Omphalotus Illudens or much commonly known as the…
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A Tool for a User-Generated Polyculture Pattern Language
This article describes the efforts of the Apios Institute to use our website to develop a user–generated pattern language of…
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Plant Allelopathy
Plant allelopathy is the ‘chemical warfare’ among the plants imposed by one plant on another to suppress the latter and…
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A Global Wiki of Perennial Crops, Polycultures, and Food Forest Sites
Designing perennial polycultures (guilds) can be a big challenge. It can be hard to find information on perennial crops and…
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Guidelines for Perennial Polyculture Design
Polyculture design can be bewildering and even intimidating. I’ve been planting and thinking about polycultures for over two decades. During…
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