Working Animals
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Reforesting With Goats
Photos: Ingrid Pullen At Zaytuna Farm we have been using our Boer meat goats to fast-track the weed-tree-infested forested valleys’…
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Attracting Wild Animals for the Good of the Garden: Which, Why, and How
A colony of bats in a mango tree Permaculture designs, especially on a large-scale, incorporate domesticated animals. For organic gardening,…
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Ducks in a Permaculture System (Scotland)
by James Reid, PRI Tap o’ Noth You don’t have a slug problem, you have a duck deficiency. — Bill…
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Beaver Baiters
The government’s decision to capture England’s only free-living population is unjustified and irrational. An opinion poll in Scotland found that…
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Building the Chicken Tractor on Steroids
"Who can weld?" Geoff asks. Keen to impress, my hand goes up. “I will see you at the shed after…
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Keeping Chickens
The scientific name for chickens is Gallus domesticus for domesticated chickens. Domesticated chickens have been bred by humans from Asian…
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Earthworms at Work
The last post of Phillip Bradley was about no till farming practices, cover cropping and direct sowing. We have farmers…
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The Royal Buffalo Bank – Promoting Animal Traction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqK2CN0J_jM Water Buffalo have been a community staple throughout Southeast Asia for centuries, especially in Thailand where the largest agricultural…
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A Horse Education at Zaytuna Farm
The author with Star Photos: Erik Klockemann Ever since the rise of the combustion engine, horses have had less and…
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How Goats Built My Food Forest and Gave Me Fuel for My Rocket Stove
When Geoff Lawton told me that he had discovered a novel way to use goats to design his food forest,…
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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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Ducks in Backyard Permaculture (Alaska)
Here in the northernmost tip of North America’s temperate rainforest, Alaska’s infamous cold meets some of the wettest weather in…
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