Medicinal Plants
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Plants That Attract Beneficial Insects
by Fred Hoffman Nature wants to make your job as a gardener as easy as possible; but you have to…
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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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Why Juicing Is SO Permaculture
I resisted juicing for a long time because I thought it was an extreme activity carried out by obsessive health-food…
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Design and Build a Low Maintenance Perennial Fruit and Herb Front Garden (UK)
Perennial Fruit and Herb Garden Note: The plants listed below are as a guide — it is not a list…
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Rashtriya Guni Mission – Promoting Traditional Medicinal Systems (India)
A mission to revive and promote traditional health care systems — Guni traditions — in India. Abstract Herbal medicine is…
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New Trees in Guatemala That Are Not Just for Reforestation
Special bicycle for shelling coffee beans It sounds strange to speak of poverty as an exciting opportunity, but many of…
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The Tropical Salad: Leaves of a Different Cut (Panama)
Leaves of a different cut I love the tropics as a place for permaculture, specifically the ability to grow tropical…
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Minor and Uncultivated Fruits of Eastern India
Averrhoa bilimbi A new agricultural paper describes the wild, uncultivated fruit that have long been an excellent source of nutrition…
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Herb Spirals and Herb Circles
Fresh herbs right outside the kitchen door The herb spiral is more or less an ubiquitous installment at the permaculture…
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Saving Seed on the US/Canadian Border
For the last three years, the best-performing seeds in my garden have come from a little local outfit called Heart…
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Plant Cuttings Made Simple
CERES plant propagation brings back some memories. I volunteered for a day when it was first launched. The CERES team…
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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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