Earthworks & Earth Resources
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Piped Swale Crossings
Permaculture is a connecting system between disciplines and elements in a matrix of design, and swales are a mainframe element.…
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Designing Swales in Central Victoria
by Samantha Downing One of the major assets of our property in Central Victoria is a storm water culvert which…
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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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Permaculture Creek Repair
Story by Nick Huggins. Video by Patrick Blampied. For the past month I have been in and out of airports…
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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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A Call to Large Scale Earth Healing and Lessons from the Loess Plateau (Video)
The world is coming unglued. The world burns. What are we going to do about it? Map of fires in…
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What (and not) About that Natural Pool Conversion on the Gold Coast?
April 2008 It’s been about a year now since I had the pleasure of Craig at my house to do…
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How to Plant Bamboo and its Application in Creek Restoration
Recently I joined Nick Huggins on a farm near Wagga to see what he was up to. (Here are the…
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Parking Lots to Parks: Designing Livable Cities
Rush hour in Utrecht, Holland by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute As I was being driven through Tel Aviv…
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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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