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How & Why We Are Going to Build a Mandala Garden
Let it be said from the outset that the following discussion of mandala gardens is based on a relatively large…
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Urban Agriculture and Food Sovereignty
Urban agriculture (UA) in public spaces may have been the unloved child that mainstream western society abandoned in the 17th…
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Reducing Your Footprint When You Haven’t Built a Permaculture Site from the Ground Up
In the ideal world of most budding permaculture enthusiasts, which I still consider myself, we would have pieces of land…
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Installing an Urban Food Forest – Updated
Last year, the city of Pottstown, Pa., saw new growth and opportunity in the world of permaculture, as several local…
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Building Ponds & Talking Liners
We all know that harvesting and storing rainwater is a huge part of designing a garden, and while swales are…
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Comparative look at Organic and Conventional Farming
Organic farming has in the recent past gained popularity. Farmers are willing to take up the risks associated with this…
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Intercropping: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and Why We Do It
Get into permaculture and within no time an entire field of jargon is sprouting up around you, and while it…
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Creating the Mainframe Design for our Farm
This article is about how we figured out our mainframe design for roads, swales and ponds/dams. The pictures that show…
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Property purchase guide: what to look for when buying land?
Finding the perfect piece of land can be rather expensive; nonetheless, once you have it, you’re setting a solid foundation…
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Using a Drone in Permaculture Design
Until recently, going to google maps, to get a birds eye view of a location was the default option for…
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Crop Rotation – A Vital Component of Organic Farming
Long before we had synthetic fertilisers to maintain the land’s nutrients, and chemical pesticides and herbicides to keeps pests and…
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Make a Living Growing Food
A new system for growing organic food successfully. Growing food organically should be at low cost and give high production…
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