Soil Biology
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Wildlife Friendly Gardening Begins Beneath Us
Why dig? Why turn over tonnes of topsoil year after year. We know permanent soil has properties that annual crops…
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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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Report on Permaculture Training in Dembe Dollo, Western Ethiopia (Part 3)
This is part three of a report on a community training program we ran in Dembe Dolo, Wolega, Eastern Ethiopia…
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A Computer Geek Starts a Garden, Part II – We Are Chlorophyll Managers
Last night I ate a couple of dozen cherry tomatoes from my just-getting-started garden. A little pepper and salt and…
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Cover Crops Solutions Chart
Click pic to download PDF As most readers of this site will recognise, nature always works to protect the soil…
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New Allan Savory Podcast and Free Webinar
We are getting pretty excited about welcoming Allan Savory to Australia in a couple of weeks to enliven a discussion…
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Re-Mineralizing Soils with Bio-Fertilizer
Remineralizing soils that have been damaged by shortsighted agriculture practices can be done using Bio-Fertilizer. This video shows you how…
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Cow Horns, Weeds and Worms (Lesotho)
Miles Durand (right), in Lesotho Introduction Lesotho is a small, mountainous country in Southern Africa. There has been an alarming…
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Living Soil Saves Lives!
A non-profit teaches a soil education program to combat the farmer suicide epidemic in rural India. By Tejal Heblekar, and…
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Humus – the Essential Ingredient (TEDx video)
Learn all about Humus, the layer of soil essential for healthy food production which is being gradually depleted by unsustainable…
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Different Degrees of Compost
Before and during shots of a compost pile built for demonstration during a PDC.So this is 14 days into the…
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How Plants Repel Insects – an Observation of Monarchs, Brix and Nutrient Dense Plants
I will always remember this day, as my first day actually witnessing a practical understanding of the Reams Biological Theory…
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