Soil Rehabilitation
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Contentious Perspectives on Weeds
Adam Grubb holds up some shepherd’s purse on an edible weeds walk Photo: Phuong Le The permaculture movement has long…
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Lessons from an Urban Back Yard Food Forest Experiment
Editor’s Note: Some of you may remember my Magic in Melbourne post, where I covered the back yard of a…
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How to Make a Compost Tea Brewer for Under $30
This video makes two things clear: We don’t need to spend thousands of dollars to make a compost tea brewer…
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Everything You Need to Know About Composting With Worms
by Rob Avis Following my recent blog post on the Do-It-Yourself Vermipod, I’ve been receiving a ton of questions from…
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Joe Jenkins Helps Handle Humanure in Haiti
Joe Jenkins isn’t afraid of nutrients, in whatever form they may come. He’s a champion of turning waste from being…
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Observations and Interactions at the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’)
Is it any wonder with daily reminders of the widening disparity between exponential population growth and water and food scarcity,…
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Keeping Cattle: Cause or Cure for Climate Crisis?
We’ve run posts on Alan Savory’s Holistic Management a few times (here, here and here for example), but for those…
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Organic? Biological? Natural Farming?
Part I 7 week Border King maize produced with grass humus There are many articles now written about organic farming…
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Holistic Management Amongst Ted Talks’ “Ads Worth Sharing” Competition Winners
This common sense, holistic approach is indeed worth sharing. With this competition, we’re seeking to reverse the trend of online…
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The Need for Sustainable Agriculture – It’s So Obvious and Inevitable That Even The UN Has To Admit It
Editor’s Note: Quite some time ago, I shared the big 400-scientist-strong IAASTD worldwide study that concluded that small scale, localised,…
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Sustainable World Radio Interview with Doug Weatherbee: Life Within the Soil, Part II
If you missed it, be sure to check out Part I of this interview, and then come back to this…
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Update on the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert, the Sequel’): “Leave All Expectations Behind”
I felt fully prepared leaving for Jordan three weeks ago. Equipped with a 55ltr backpack laden with books, a compost…
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