Fungi
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Fungal Soil: What Is It and Why Do We Want It?
Look at all those Fun Guys! Do not eat! Little brown mushrooms can be poisonous… and extremely whimsical. Wood chips…
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Bioremediation of Industrial Pollution – Utilizing Fungi, Bacteria, and Plants to Reduce Oil Pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin and the World
Natural resource exploitation affects almost every corner of the earth, and the extraction of crude oil is just one excessive…
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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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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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How to Grow Chickens Without Buying Grain – by Only Feeding Them Compost
Whilst on a tour of the US, Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton was giving a talk at Montpelier, Vermont, when a…
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Introduction to Naturalised Nursery Practice
Applying the understandings of ecosystem mimicry to create alternative solutions to current nursery practices of disease control, fertilisation and sterile…
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Mohamed Hijri: A Simple Solution to the Coming Phosphorus Crisis (video)
Biologist Mohamed Hijri brings to light a farming crisis no one is talking about: We are running out of phosphorus,…
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Paul Stamets – Solutions From the Underground (Video)
Many readers of Permaculture News will be familiar with Paul Stamets and his amazing research with all things fungi. This…
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Soil, not Dirt – Dr Elaine Ingham Talks Soil Microbiology
Dr. Elaine Ingham talks about soil fertility and the role of soil microbial life. Dr. Ingham is a world-renowned soil…
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Making Mushroom Growing Sustainable – Part 2, Planting Your Logs
Following along from the previous article (the set-up) we’ll now cover planting your oyster mushrooms into straw logs. Oysters mushrooms…
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Making Mushroom Growing Sustainable – Part 1, the Set-up
Oyster mushrooms Gourmet mushrooms are an excellent addition to a Permaculture farm. They are nutritious and delicious and they really…
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Get Your Food from a Firehose
We have been delving into the dirty secret behind our food, which is that it comes from bacteria — primarily,…
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