Trees
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A Quick Guide To Tree Climbing Gear For Arborists
Trees have always been a valuable element in the environment. Without trees, there won’t be any fresh air nor do…
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Growing Trees From Seed
As a permaculture designer, I think, I should be growing my trees from seeds I collect. There is a lot…
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Growing a fig tree up a wall
Our garden has some constraints: (a) available space; and (b) available sunlight. Taken together it was not possible to generate…
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A Year in the Life of a Deciduous Tree and Understanding Our Role as Facilitators
Unlike other methods of growing food, in permaculture, we try to understand the natural order of things and do our…
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Wild about Persimmons
I didn’t grow up eating persimmons. Somehow they made it into my vocabulary but never my diet. My British wife…
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Why I Love to Research
I have three distinct memories of trees, other than as objects to climb, when I was a child. At my…
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Fast-Growing Trees for the UK Climate
We think of gardening as a time-consuming, patient, often passive activity. This is often true, but even the best and…
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Tropical Permaculture Perspectives
Visiting Por Phat Aphaimool’s forest farm in Mae Tha, Chiang Mai, again after a long time was a chance to…
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Advice on planning your own forest garden
It always helps to plan a forest garden and you definitely don’t need complicated computer software. Here are some…
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Can you help us save the trees? EU asks citizens for ‘solutions’ to deforestation
As the world continues turning into a new calendar year, many people may be reflecting on what actions they can…
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Multi-Functional Living: Wood Heat
This year Emma and I are taking something we did last year and making it more functional: We are heating…
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Useful Garden Projects for Autumn Leaves
Despite having spent many of my most recent years in the tropics, and despite having grown up in Louisiana, where…
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