Earthworks & Earth Resources
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Experimenting with Overflowing Circles and Slow-Flow Swales (Panama)
The jungle garden I am not Bill Mollison or Geoff Lawton, they will both happily report; rather, I am but…
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Broadacre Farm Design – Regenerative Agriculture at Work (Australia)
Over the past year Yandoit Farm has been going through a few changes. Located in Victoria, Australia, north of Hepburn…
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More Thinking Out Loud About Earth Repair Tools: The Agricultural Specification Unimog
Continuing with the theme of my last piece, another ideal potential equipment platform is the agricultural spec’d Unimog, manufactured by…
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Swale Pathways (Tasmania, Australia)
by Good Life Permaculture Diagram of a traditional swale system Hobart is Australia’s second driest capital city (Adelaide’s first) so…
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Making Swales with a Tractor and Loader
by Dale Bunger Just a quick update to show how I have been making swales with a small Kubota and…
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Swales Filled by Melting Ice and Snow (Texas, USA)
We just harvested over 20,000 gallons of ice and snow melt into our swales. Last week we had about 4…
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Keyline Design as an Organizing Pattern for Permaculture Design, Part 2 (Sweden)
This is part 2 of a series of 5 articles looking at design considerations for our Cold Climate Permaculture site…
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Desert Food Forest and Organic Commercial Production in Three Years – Update on Wadi Rum Consultancy (Jordan)
Outside the fence On August 6, 2010 Craig Mackintosh posted on my initial consultancy for the site I’m reporting on…
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Wadi Mukheris and the Wonder of Gabions (Jordan)
The year 1999 was a busy one, with the potential of Y2K and “the end of world as we know…
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Making a Terrace Garden
Terraces have been used sustainably for centuries. Why not make a down-scaled version for your garden? One of the first…
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