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Rough, Ready, But Very Real – a November 2013 Update on the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’ Site)
Project from above, featuring a garbage-accumulating fence edge Well, you would be hard pressed to find a tougher block of…
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A Worm Farm in Your Duck Coop! (Alaska)
In my last article I discussed the challenges of keeping ducks in backyard permaculture. There are two primary problems, at…
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Report on a Permaculture Internship – Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge (Sept-Oct, 2013, Ethiopia)
Editor’s Note: Beginning 2 December 2013, Alex is running another PDC at the developing Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge in southern…
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An Adventure with Bees in Guatemala
This is a story of young permaculture practitioners with big dreams, a gang of plucky volunteers, and a wiley Mayan…
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Poo-Free Self-Filling Duck Waterer
If any of you have had any experience with ducks, you’ll know that they produce and deposit enormous amounts of…
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Managing the Working Chicken (video)
Almost everyone who is exposed to permaculture concepts has seen the above graphic (from Bill Mollison’s Introduction to Permaculture). It’s…
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Worm Bin and Chicken Poop Compost Catch
by Rick Pickett, Eco-Ola Rehabilitating degraded land in the Peruvian Amazon requires utilizing many tools in ecological agriculture’s arsenal. We…
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Is Organic Supermarket Food a Lie?
These days organic food is a major trend and a multi billion dollar business. We find organic food in supermarkets…
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A Complete Guide to Using Slugs as a Resource with Indian Runner Ducks
This article is for all those people out there who are under regular attack from the cursed slug. If you…
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VEG Design Solutions, Part Three: How to Drain a Duck Pond Without Getting Poo on Your Hands
Dan Palmer Photo © Craig Mackintosh by Dan Palmer, Very Edible Gardens The Site-Specific Design Problem The problem was how…
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VEG Design Solutions, Part II: The Magical Chicken Tunnel
by Dan Palmer, Very Edible Gardens Introduction In late 2009 we were engaged to complete a design for a ¼…
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VEG Design Solutions, Part One: the Chicken/Fox Filter
by Dan Palmer, Very Edible Gardens When designing edible gardens, a site-specific problem will often crop up. One of the…
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