Food Plants – Perennial
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Perennial Vegetables and The Other Reasons You Should Consider Them for Your Garden
Luckily for me, my mother was the sort who insisted that I taste something before deciding I didn’t like it.…
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Growing Queensland Arrowroot- Canna Edulis
Canna edulis is a perennial root crop also known as Achira or here in Australia as Queensland Arrowroot. I’m not…
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Varieties, Additives and Sourcing: What’s Happening with your food?
Photography by Ingrid Pullen Eating: one of the most simple and basic human activities. Yet as our food systems become…
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Permaculture in Paradise
34 Years ago Dano Gorsich asked his old permaculture teacher, Bill Mollison, what he should do with his land on…
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Seed Saving, Part 2: Practical Ways to Save Seed
Saving wildflower seeds can be a great way to spread biodiversity – like this selection harvested by Josie Jeffrey Having…
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Ameenah Gurib-Fakim: Humble Plants that Hide Surprising Secrets (TED video)
In this intriguing talk, biologist Ameenah Gurib-Fakim introduces us to rare plant species from isolated islands and regions of Africa.…
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Miracle Farms on TV (Canada)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtOaxbZbN_M Duration 11 minutes. English subtitles available. This is a feature on Miracle Farms on a French Canadian TV show…
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A Bit About Bananas
In his fantastic book Complete Book Of Fruit Growing in Australia Louis Glowinski wrote that "the banana is the most…
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Guerilla Gardening in Rural Panama
A gnome (the author) in the Communal Garden Make no mistake, the war is on. The commodity is food, the…
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Report on 5-Day Permaculture Workshop for the Etse Fewus Herbalists Association in Fitch, North Soha, Ethiopia: Part 2
Continuing from Part 1. Sunday 21/09/14: Day 4 The group were very happy with the biole preparations we did on…
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Accidental Propagation, For the Best in Gardening (Panama)
Many of the most successful gardens we’ve propagated have been as much luck and accident as they have been my…
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