Plant Systems
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Advanced Cell Grazing with Geoff Lawton
Last year on Permaculture News there was an excellent article on Advanced Cell Grazing by Nick Burtner who documents the…
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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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The Benefits of Permaculture Education and Sack Gardens in Kenya, East Africa
You may have previously read about the work of FoodWaterShelter in Tanzania, East Africa, where they use permaculture solutions to…
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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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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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Cold Climate Food Forest
This food forest system is well established and has a number of mature trees that are well over 30 year’s…
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Under Cover Farmers (videos)
While researching cover cropping, I came across the video above, featuring an explanation from the Rodale Institute (U.S.) of their…
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From Desert to Oasis in 4 Years (Jordan)
Geoff Lawton’s next video in his ever-expanding lineup takes you to Wadi Rum in Jordan where he consulted on a…
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Wake up Before it is Too Late – Make Agriculture Truly Sustainable Now for Food Security in a Changing Climate
Click to download (5mb PDF) In late September of last year (2013) the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development…
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Over 200 Food Plants on Just a Tiny 1/10th Acre of Cold Climate Urban Land
The scattergun technique in permaculture – planting over 300 edible plants in your backyard to see what sticks, what takes…
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Keyline Design as an Organizing Pattern for Permaculture Design, Part 3 (Sweden)
This is the third of a series of articles looking at design considerations for our Cold Climate Permaculture site using…
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