Irrigation
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Greening the Desert Internship 2012 – Greener than Ever
Our one month long internship at the Greening the Desert Project (the ‘Sequel site’) just ended. Ten students arriving from…
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Food Forests, Part 7: Watering and Soil Food
Someone remarked to me yesterday that the fruit trees in the food forests here at the farm must require an…
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Wadi Hadhramaut – the Start of a Large New Rehabilitation Project in Yemen
Shibam: UNESCO World Heritage site I was recently privileged to be part of the team that accompanied Geoff and Nadia…
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Rwanda – Emerging in a Changing Climate (video)
Filmmaker and environmentalist, John D. Liu from the Environmental Education Media Project team, takes us to Rwanda again (last time…
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How To Survive the Coming Crises (free Geoff Lawton video)
At time of writing, our Zaytuna Farm Video Tour video has had almost 11,000 views, after only six months. A…
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Planting Days Are Here! (Al Baydha, Saudi Arabia)
by Neal Spackman This week the project started planting the swales with 1000 very hardy desert trees. The team is…
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Permagardens In Practice: Resilience in Action (Uganda, Africa)
PDCs are tricky. For two weeks we tumble into this community of unfamiliarly familiar, curious strangers. The constant whirlwind of…
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Update on Permaculture Implementation and Design Development at Hafto Site, Hadiya Zone, Ethiopia
Editor’s Note: Regular readers will have appreciated Alex McCausland’s regular and comprehensive reports from precariously positioned Ethiopia, and the great…
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Food Forests, Part 5: Water – Friend and Foe
I always thought that rain was a nurturing and gentle aspect of nature. You know how it is, you get…
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Blue Gold: World Water Wars (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWGzzSG-fVM This is a must-watch video for all who need water (the rest of you are excused). I actually covered…
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Tales from La Angostura, Guatemala, A Project in the Making – Chapter 3: Preparing to do Something
Click for larger view To be sure, buying a nice piece of land requires a lot of effort and a…
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