Soil
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Seeding Into Frost Heaves: Leveraging a Natural Soil Disturbance Event
A close up of frost heaves A common winter sight in most cold temperate regions are frost-heaves; areas of water-saturated…
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Waste Not! Transform Your Waste Into Soil, Water, and Energy
by Watershed Management Group Watershed Management Group’s newest video Waste Not! — featuring Brad Lancaster and narrated by Lisa Shipek…
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How To: Wire Mesh Compost
I live in an area with a very defined and intense rainy season, and had been wanting to start a…
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FoodWaterShelter Fast Fact: Recipes for Healthy, Happy Plants (Tanzania)
The spoils of Kesho Leo’s permaculture garden beds (Arusha, Tanzania) Healthy plants in healthy soil shouldn’t generally suffer from serious…
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Propagation Using Willow Water
There are many ways to propagate plants, which can be broadly divided into sexual and asexual. Taking cuttings is an…
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Differences in Tilled and No Till Soils – A Demonstration
In this video agronomist Mark Scarpitti of USDA-NRCS Ohio state demonstrates the differences between tilled and no-till soils by doing…
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Building Up Soil for a Nutrient-Rich Raised Bed
All photos by David Ashwanden A lot of permaculture involves utilising waste streams and turning problems into solutions, and I…
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Soil: The Hidden Frontier
Permaculturists everywhere are crazy about patterns. We are taught to “zen-out” so we can observe patterns in nature and society.…
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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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Dune Stabilisation in the Mali Inner Delta
The Sobé village located in Deboye Rural District, just like the northern part of the Mali inner delta, is threatened…
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Composting Toilets in Thailand
Newly completed composting toilet This is an analysis of a humanure composting toilet designed and built at the Panya Project…
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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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