Tag: Permaculture - Page 10
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An Edible Garden Makeover for a London Community (Video)
When I wrote about how young Greeks are abandoning Athens in favor of a life in the country, I suggested that cities would do well to think about resilience, not just efficiency. How do
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"Woodland House" Builder Ben Law on Why Prince Charles Rocks
Ben Law's stunning woodland house and woodsman lifestyle, and his subsequent videos on how to build a roundwood timber-frame home, have become somewhat legendary in permaculture circles. Now Permaculture Magazine has a great interview with Ben Law in
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Activists Planted 100s of Gardens Nationwide This Weekend
Bonnie reported before on San Francisco's 350 garden challenge, in which activists turned yards, planters, window boxes and empty lots across the city into productive food growing spaces. This year the effort
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Using Technology To Grow Diverse, Polyculture Food Systems
Last week I wrote about how diversity was key to sustainable agriculture, but noted how hard it can be for a culture based on linear production to wrap our heads around more complex natural systems and how to manage them. That's especially true if you
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If There's a War on Weeds, What Does Victory Look Like?
The other day I took an unidentified, overly vigorous plant sample from my yard to my local garden center to figure out what it was. The staff looked at the leaves, checked out some
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Wilted Lettuce, Bolted Broccoli, and What to Do With Them (Video)
We've said it before. Food waste sucks. Wasted food contributes to climate change. It exacerbates the water crisis. And let's not forget that discarded food represents an astounding economic waste too. Colleen has already given us
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Diversity is Key to Sustainable Farming, So Why's It So Damn Hard?
As Collin explored in his slideshow of permaculture principles, diversity has to be a central part of any approach to sustainability—especially one that models itself on natural
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How to Build a Vertical Pallet Garden in the Tiniest of Spaces
Live in a tiny apartment with no room for a garden? Life on the Balcony may just have the answer to gardening in even the narrowest of spaces—and it all comes down to a recycled shipping pallet. We've already
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Grub Composting Turns Waste into Animal Feed in Hours (Video)
We TreeHuggers have been known to get pretty excited about the rise of worm composting as big business. But one composting advocate is arguing that the next phase of compost evolution does not lie with worms, but grubs. Most
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How Community Investing Can Help End Fossil Fuel Addiction
From community-owned solar power stations to cooperatively-operated breweries, community investing offers a great way for grassroots groups to create change in their towns, villages and neighborhoods. From revolving loan funds to community shares and
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How Portland's Tool Libraries Build Community (Video)
Good Magazine has urged us to share more with our neighbors, and it's the basis behind the whole concept of collaborative consumption. But more and more companies and community initiative are exploring what this kind of
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Garden Mulch Makes the Simplest Composting Toilet of All
From peeing in public to plush and fragrant composting toilets, there was a time when I was writing an awful lot about pee and poop. It's been a while since I visited this important topic, but as I was going through my morning
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Royal Wedding Leads to Raid on Community Garden
The carbon footprint of the royal wedding, not to mention the wacky and wasteful royal wedding souvenirs that go with it, are not the only way that Will and Kate's big party impacted the environment over the weekend.
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Why and How Every Gardener Should Go Peat Free
The Chelsea Flower Show may have declared its intentions to go peat free, and peat alternatives for the garden may be increasingly available, but many gardeners continue to use peat despite the fact that peat mining is stripping vital habitats at a far
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Landshare Movement Reaches Australia
Bonnie already reported on how the landshare movement was connecting landless growers with land owners, turning unused garden and farmland into productive food growing spaces. Then Alex followed up with a post on how
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How to Build a DIY Solar Tracker (Video)
Image credit: TheJabbaPoint Solar trackers can get pretty huge, but they are not just for large-scale installations anymore. When I wrote about the increased popularity of solar trackers, many commenters noted that commercial models were often
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How Native Americans Managed "Wild" Land Long Before Settlers
When European settlers first came to North America, they assumed they were looking at "untouched" nature. Sure, there were native peoples, but history tells us they didn't value the skills or knowledge of the existing
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Tsunami Inspires Community Garden, Makes Case for Resilience
The Japanese tsunami and the nuclear crisis that followed may have prompted many to rethink the value of nuclear power. But, according to one voice from Japan, it may also be encouraging a broader rethink of how we organize ourselves for resilience and
