Soil Conservation
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Why Pasture Cropping is Such a Big Deal
Pasture cropped oats growing in symbiosis with native perennial pastures at Col Seis’s farm Grain cropping is something that, for…
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City Kids Move to the Country – Part IV
Editor’s Note: This article was written in mid-December, when Queensland’s rains were nothing like that witnessed of late, and which…
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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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The Man Who Stopped the Desert
by 1080 Films Trailer: The Man Who Stopped the Desert “The Man Who Stopped the Desert” is a full High…
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An Agriculture that Stands a Chance: Perennial Polyculture & the Hard Limits of Post-Carbon Farming
More and more articles are being written that continue to hit the proverbial "nail on the head". This one was…
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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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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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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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