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Happy Little Accidents
Last October (2010) I travelled from the Gold Coast to Melbourne to do my first PDC, with Geoff Lawton and…
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Sustainable World Radio Interview with Doug Weatherbee: Life Within the Soil, Part I
I had the pleasure of meeting Doug Weatherbee at Geoff Lawton’s PDC course at Quail Springs in California in August…
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Building a Mandala Garden
Building a mandala garden is a great way to break up your garden beds into a riot of living colour,…
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From Danger to Diversity – Mr Phuoc’s Farm
Jonathon (Joni) is writing from his volunteer Permaculture position with the Social Policy Ecology Research Institute (SPERI), based at their…
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Compost Power Hot Shower Report, Ethiopia
We recently submitted a short report on our hot-fast-composting system, which gave some detail on the theory and practice of…
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Saving our Soils and How the Old Peach Tree was Brought Back to Life
by Niki Neave It’s not the soil itself — it’s the soil life that is the most important element. —…
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Biochar – Potential or Pitfall? Carbon Storage vs. Soil Quality
We’ve been having a pretty lively discussion on biochar in a recent post. One of the commenters, Rhamis Kent, found…
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Beware the Biochar Initiative
Turning bioenergy crops into buried charcoal to sequester carbon does not work, and could plunge the earth into an oxygen…
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Rob’s DIY Vermipod
by Rob Avis For some time now I’ve been anxious to get a worm composting system for our kitchen scraps…
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Fast Hot Composting System
At Strawberry Fields Eco-Lodge (SFEL) we use a fast hot composting system that can deliver well decomposed compost within 3…
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Reducing Urban Water Use
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt once noted that "civilized people ought to know how…
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How to Handle Biomass in Dry Tropical Systems: Mulch Pit Gardens
The dry tropics cover a significant land area of the planet, particularly around the regions of the tropics of Cancer…
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