Food Plants – Perennial
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Spreading Seeds
The seed regulation proposal from the European Union (1, 2), which could have severely disrupted the biodiversity of the entire…
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Designing Food Forests Across Three Climate Zones with Geoff Lawton
Got 10 minutes? Here’s a great little video of Geoff Lawton outlining the construction of food forests across three different…
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Natural Pest Control – North American Survey Worth Revisiting
I just had a lovely phone call with my sister. One discouraging note was her recent decision to finally give…
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Urban Garden Demonstration Update (New Zealand)
by Kay Baxter, PRI New Zealand (Koanga Institute) This is an update on our urban permaculture garden experiment which integrates…
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Agroforestry Support Species for Cold Climates
A silk tree in my garden, serving as living trellis to arctic kiwifruit; also shade provider for shade crops including…
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Banana Circles
Banana circles can be used in tropical and sub-tropical areas to utilise waste water, run-off or overflow from rainwater tanks,…
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Spring: Season of Perennial Vegetables in the Cold-Climate Garden (MA, USA)
Excerpted from Paradise Lot by Eric Toensmeier with contributions from Jonathan Bates. Bates and Toensmeier will be hosting a perennial…
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Exploring Sustainable Livelihoods in Laikipia (Kenya)
Elin Lindhagen, Director, PRI-Kenya Some members of the women’s group Since it started in 2013, the Laikipia Permaculture Project in…
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Edible Weeds
Last monday morning I had a chance to go for an edible weed foray with my friends Adam and Annie…
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Hardy Gingers for the Food Forest Understory
Turmeric (Curcuma longa) can handle 5°F/-15°C. The rhizomes make a great tea and are wonderful shredded into stir-frys or cooked…
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Seeds of Permaculture – Tropical Permaculture (video)
An interactive film about permaculture in the tropics, with education and inspiration as the main threads running through this hour-and-a-half-documentary.
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Bhaskar Save, the Gandhi of Natural Farming
Sage of a minimalist farming system based on non-violence and all of nature’s biodiversity that produces in abundance with no…
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