Tag: Permaculture
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How the coconut tree provides food, fuel, roofing, rope and more for Sri Lankan farmers
Waste not, want not. Coconut farmers know a thing or two about the efficient use of resources.
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9 Products That Help Gardeners Create Healthy, Organic Soil
A teaspoon of healthy soil contains more microbes than there are humans on this planet. These products can help you maintain that diversity.
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Chicken coop gets cool & contemporary treatment in Sicily
Who says chickens are boring? Check out this fun-looking wooden chicken coop built as part of a permaculture workshop in Sicily.
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10 Heirloom Seed Companies Pioneering a Revival
Over the past several decades, we've lost countless varieties of fruits, vegetables, and flowers that once flourished in the U.S. A new generation of seed companies has set out to reverse the trend.
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Can Permaculture Transform Industrial Agriculture?
Permaculture is spreading across backyards and community gardens at a rapid pace. But what about farms? A new study aims to find out.
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Farming on the Rooftops of Brooklyn
A video profile of a food rebel turning the concrete jungle into a working farm.
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How to Use a Raised Garden Bed as a Compost Bin
This neat little trick is an efficient way to keep fallow garden beds fertile.
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How to Grow All Your Food on a Tenth of an Acre
Proponents of biointensive gardening claim it could offer the answer to our ongoing food crises. It's certainly an impressive way to grow vast amounts of food.
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Using Chickens to Plant a Food Forest
Permaculture legend Geoff Lawton walks us through a ten-year evolution from meadow to food forest. And it all starts with some chickens.
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How to Build Irrigation-Free Raised Beds with Hugelkultur
With water becoming an increasingly precious resource, growing techniques that limit or even eliminate irrigation become ever more valuable. Advocates claim that hugelkultur holds that promise.
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Chicago Truck Farm Makes Urban Agriculture Mobile
It's certainly an eye catching spectacle, but is a farm on the back of a truck really green?
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Egg Maps and Green Routes Create Vegetable Tourism in the Incredible Edible Town Todmorden
Todmorden is a town that embraced the local food movement by growing their own fruit and veg anywhere in public spaces. They also have an Egg Map and a Green Route for the Vegetable Tourists!
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Neiman Marcus' $100k Chicken Coop is a Little 'Eggcessive'
Do you love your chickens enough to buy them a $100k chicken coop?
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4 Composting Outhouses That Provide a Room With a View
Pooping in a hole in the ground isn't everyone's cup of tea. But with views like these, relieving yourself the old fashioned way can feel positively luxurious.
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Community Supported Aquaponics Takes Off in the UK
Volunteers are trialling an urban fish farm allotment in Bristol, England. Could this help ensure food security in an uncertain future?
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A Mountain of Heirloom Pumpkins: You'll Never See This in Your Grocery Store
A gathering of heirloom enthusiasts dispels the myth of "consumer choice" in our current food system, and offers a vision of something tastier.
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"The French Laundry" Founders on the Joys of Heirloom Apple Farming
The Red Delicious is evil. It's fun to be alone. And animals play an important role in integrated, sustainable farming. Just a few of the lessons in this beautiful video.
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Strawbale Chicken Coop Demonstrates Simplicity of Good Design
From insulated strawbale walls to an automatic, rainwater-fed watering system, this coop is both smart and surprisingly simple at the same time.
