Plant Systems
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A Bit About Bananas
In his fantastic book Complete Book Of Fruit Growing in Australia Louis Glowinski wrote that "the banana is the most…
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Natural Swimming Pools for Passive Holistic Education, Increased Diversity, and Health
Where I grew up, I had two swimming choices. The first was in various rivers and ‘swimming holes’ (deeper parts…
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A Canadian Rocket Stove Powered Greenhouse
How does Permaculture function in cold climate latitudes? Recently Geoff Lawton and his crew visited engineers Rob and Michelle Avis…
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World’s Largest Aquaponics Project, in China’s Third Largest Aquaculture Lake
Lake Taihu experienced its worst ever algal bloom at the height of summer 2004, pushing researchers to search for new…
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Create a Hugelmound Landscape
Hugelmounds are a truly amazing regenerative landscaping technique. They could be your preferred method of soil re-building and regeneration, and…
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Intensive Silvopasture – a Win-Win for Carbon and Yield
I don’t have rights to a photo of intensive silvopasture, but in this image we have high density of leucaena…
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Plants That Attract Beneficial Insects
by Fred Hoffman Nature wants to make your job as a gardener as easy as possible; but you have to…
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When Engineers Grow Food Forests (TED video)
Dr. Akira Miyawaki has a job many of us would enjoy — planting forests on degraded land. He once was…
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Mycelium Running: How Fungi Can Help Save the World
by Paul Stamets. Review by Sher June. When research biologist Paul Stamets suggests fungi can help save the world, he…
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UN: Only Small Farmers and Agroecology Can Feed the World
Governments must shift subsidies and research funding from agro-industrial monoculture to small farmers using ‘agroecological’ methods, according to the UN’s…
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Sheep Vegetation Management in British Columbia, Canada
Permaculture principle #11: Use edges and value the marginal. The interface between things is where the most interesting events take…
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Alihuen: An Agrarian Conservation Story (Chile)
Click the ‘CC’ button to choose subtitles (English and French available) Alihuen means big tree in the language of the…
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