Soil
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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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The Truth About Trees
by Julia Mitchell When one thinks of trees and the benefit they have for us as humans, the obvious comes…
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Gabions: Water Soaks in the Desert
Gabions are one of the crucial feature elements of dry land landscape water harvesting design. A gabion is a leaky…
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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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Piped Swale Crossings
Permaculture is a connecting system between disciplines and elements in a matrix of design, and swales are a mainframe element.…
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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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Bio-Agriculture – a Solution to Climate Change
Carbon deficient soil at left, carbon rich soil at right. It’s not difficult, but it could make all the difference.…
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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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Strawberry Fields Update – Flood Protection and Water Control in Ethiopia
One of the biggest challenges of doing Permaculture in a semi-arid place like Konso is the drought-flood hydrology besets in…
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