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Water Shortages Threaten Food Future in the Arab Middle East
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Captured from a bus window, while crossing the no-man’s land between Jordan and…
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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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PRI Ridge Point Dam Earthworks
by Gordon Williams On the 31st of January the Permaculture Earthworks course at Zaytuna Farm began with good weather and…
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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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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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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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Jordan Valley Permaculture Project – November 2010 Update
The Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’) in Al Jawaseri in the Dead Sea Valley…
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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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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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Designing Swales in Central Victoria
by Samantha Downing One of the major assets of our property in Central Victoria is a storm water culvert which…
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How to Build a Permaculture Vegetable Garden
– Tiny Eglington’s method, educator Geoff Lawton This is a photo report of a vegetable garden built for Ann Foster…
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