Food Plants – Perennial
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Jerusalem Artichokes – like Diamonds, are Forever
PIJ #54; March – May 1995; page 47 Margaret Lynch explains how to grow, store and prepare the edible section…
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‘Project Thoreau’ Updates
Ezanee Cooper gives us some excellent updates on progress with ‘Project Thoreau‘. Use the comments form below to share your…
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Weeds or Wild Nature?
Reprinted with permission from the “Permaculture International Journal” (PIJ) (No. 61, Dec-Feb 1997). The world’s striving for racial tolerance doesn’t…
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Leaves to Live By
Perennial Leaf Vegetables by Craig Elevitch (see bio at bottom), originally published in the Permaculture International Journal, #61 Dec-Feb 1997…
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Desert Ways
Mongongo Tree Whether it is an issue of conserving water of using suitable plant species, thriving in a desert environment…
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Look Locally, See Globally
It’s just amazing how many of life’s lessons can be learned in the garden. It is also amazing that even…
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Trees Giving Up Battle, But Sustainable Farming Offers Hope
The silver bullet solution to climate change in many people’s book is to simply ‘plant a tree’. A recent study…
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Nitrogen Fixing Trees – The Multipurpose Pioneers
The myths about the wonders of nitrogen fixing trees are many. Craig Elevitch (see bio at bottom) and Kim Wilkinson…
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Food Forest DVDs Being Shipped
Profuse apologies to all the eager Food Forest customers. We had a slight delay on their arrival. But, they’re here…
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Biodiverse Systems are More Productive
Sustainable farming across the world relies on cultivating a diversity of crops and livestock to maximise internal input, and this…
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Strange Fruit
A hard commercial logic dictates that the only way to get good fruit today is to grow your own. by…
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Build a Banana Circle
A banana-paw paw circle is an excellent way to grow fine fruit and root vegetable crops whilst using up excess…
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