Soil Rehabilitation
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Soil Microbes Help Save Plant-growing Input Costs (Video)
by Doug Weatherbee Learn how beneficial soil microbes can provide soluble nutrients and plant disease suppression to your farm or…
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APC11 Presentation: Regenerative Agriculture, A Case Study – by Dan Palmer
Dan Palmer, of VeryEdibleGardens (VEG), gives an interesting look at the basis of Regenerative Agriculture, and how it applies in…
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Food Forests, Part 3: Closing the Loop
Local legend around here has it that at some point in the past a guy by the colourful name of…
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APC11 Presentation: Albert Bates on Biochar (Video)
Albert Bates talks about biochar at APC11 (Turangi, New Zealand) Photo © Craig Mackintosh I’m personally unsure about biochar. This…
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When “Eww” Turns to “Ooh!”
Photos © Craig Mackintosh You’ve heard the Zaytuna Farm composting loo story before, but since this is the first time…
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The Frontiers of Crop Science
by Nico Snyman: B.Sc. Agric (Agron.)Pret. Six years after we started farming in the tropics, in the upper catchment areas…
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A Recipe for a Hugelkultur Raised Bed
I’ve been wanting to do a hugelkultur bed ever since I saw an article about a village store garden where…
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Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg
Richard Heinberg not only talks the talk, but also walks the walk, as we get to see in the video…
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Visiting an Urban Permaculture Installation, Five Months On (Video)
by Dan Palmer, Very Edible Gardens Two days ago Dan and Will returned to a large VEG permaculture design and…
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How to Make a Worm Mansion
This is no ordinary worm farm: it is a fun project to do with the kids, it works like the…
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Getting Kids Into Gardening, Part II: Create a Pizza Garden
Pizza making with home grown produce Gardening can be an invaluable tool for helping children explore all kinds of things…
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Stabilizing the Climate with “Permanent Agriculture”
Trees are one of our most powerful tools to pull carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in the soil…
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