Animal Forage
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Biological Carpeting
Biological Carpeting is a method introduced to us by Rodger Savory of Savory Grassland Management. Rodger is the son of…
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Trophic Cascades – On the Reintroduction of Wolves to Yellowstone National Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.…
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How to Grow Chickens Without Buying Grain – by Only Feeding Them Compost
Whilst on a tour of the US, Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton was giving a talk at Montpelier, Vermont, when a…
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Addressing the Causes of Land Degradation, Food/Nutritional Insecurity and Poverty: a New Approach to Agricultural Intensification in the Tropics and Subtropics
by Roger RB Leakey, Agroforestry and Novel Crops Unit, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.…
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Delicious and Nutritious – Moringa is a Miracle Tree!
The uses and health benefits of Moringa are amazing; some even call it miraculous! It is truly a ‘jack of…
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Humanitarian Vetiver Project, East Sumba, Indonesia
Lined up for free treatment I am a young Christian missionary doctor on the Island of Sumba in Eastern Indonesia.…
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Cover Crops Solutions Chart
Click pic to download PDF As most readers of this site will recognise, nature always works to protect the soil…
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Advanced Cell Grazing – Permaculture Livestock Systems at Zaytuna Farm
Cell grazing is not a new option when it comes to large animal management. However, brewing at Zaytuna Farm is…
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Geoff Lawton’s Zaytuna Farm Video Tour – Part II
Last year I took some time out to make a Zaytuna Farm Video Tour for you all (embedded here, with…
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If You Plant It, They Will Come – Friendly Pollination Practices
Blazing Star and Little Sulphur (source) Encouraging pollinators into our gardens is one of the biggest contributions we can make…
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Carbon-Sequestering Perennial Industrial Crops
This article is an excerpt from my forthcoming book Carbon Farming: A Global Toolkit for Stabilizing the Climate with Tree…
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Integrating Livestock in the Food Forest
Cattle grazing under alder in silvopasture system at Las Canadas, Huatusco, Mexico Integrating livestock seems to be the best way…
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