Irrigation
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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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Drip Irrigation in Ethiopia – the Need, the Equipment, the Set-up and Establishment
Prior to July 2010 we had been over-using water at Strawberry Fields. This disturbed me for a number of reasons.…
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Ollas: Unglazed Clay Pots for Garden Irrigation
I first encountered the concept of using unglazed clay vessels for sub-surface irrigation in Bill Mollison’s “The Global Gardener” film…
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Letters from Jordan – On Consultation at Jordan’s Largest Farm, and Contemplating Transition
Preamble: From my recent trip to Jordan, I shared with you all the news, with loads of pictures, about the…
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Soil Carbon – Can it Save Agriculture’s Bacon?
Editor’s Note: Thanks to Darren Doherty of ReGenAg for sourcing and getting permission to run this. by Christine Jones, PhD…
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Morocco Observations, Past, Present and Future – Part I
Written by Alex Metcalfe. Photo credits to Alex Metcalfe, Asiya Brock, Helen Evans and Houssa Yacoubi. The view from the…
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Flavours of Kinesi
It’s 2am. I’m sitting on a nice toilet in a nice hotel room in a nice little town in Africa.…
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Discovering Permaculture in Jordan
This great little clip by Emma Piper-Burket takes an early 2009 look at a couple of permaculture projects in Jordan.…
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Water Harvesting and Storage
by Adrian Buckley, Permaculture Designer, B. of Community Design, Calgary, Canada Good soil is nothing without water! Fortunately, there are…
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Thinking Outside the Square In Wagga Wagga: Thoughts on Contour
Permaculture solutions have come to life at a Wagga Wagga farm in the midst of a heated debate over water.…
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Regeneration – an Earth Saving Evolution
Regeneration – an Earth Saving Evolution How biological farming builds healthier soils, healthier plants, healthier animals and certain hope in…
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Podcast: Buy Water Rights, Sell Riverina’s Future
Last week Permaculture consultant Nick Huggins spoke to Anne Delaney from the ABC Riverina Breakfast radio program in Wagga Wagga,…
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