Swales
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Ridge to Valley – a Holistic Watershed Perspective
This excellent little 20-minute video does a great job of covering the basics of watershed management and landscape rehydration. You…
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Talking Swales
While at Wadeye, Northern Territory, Australia, installing a permaculture design for Earth Ethics, this video was taken when I was…
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My Experience of Permaculture Aid Work in Ethiopia
I’m not sure it’s possible, looking back now, to say exactly what I was expecting when I hopped on that…
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Pigscavation to Help Water Penetration
Capturing water before it runs off your property is key to rehydrating parched landscapes. Building ‘swales’ or channels along contour…
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How To Survive the Coming Crises (free Geoff Lawton video)
At time of writing, our Zaytuna Farm Video Tour video has had almost 11,000 views, after only six months. A…
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Planting Days Are Here! (Al Baydha, Saudi Arabia)
by Neal Spackman This week the project started planting the swales with 1000 very hardy desert trees. The team is…
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Permagardens In Practice: Resilience in Action (Uganda, Africa)
PDCs are tricky. For two weeks we tumble into this community of unfamiliarly familiar, curious strangers. The constant whirlwind of…
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Update on Permaculture Implementation and Design Development at Hafto Site, Hadiya Zone, Ethiopia
Editor’s Note: Regular readers will have appreciated Alex McCausland’s regular and comprehensive reports from precariously positioned Ethiopia, and the great…
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Food Forests, Part 5: Water – Friend and Foe
I always thought that rain was a nurturing and gentle aspect of nature. You know how it is, you get…
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Report on Implementation Activities in Konso Secondary and Jarso Primary Schools in July 2012 (Ethiopia)
In May 2012 we ran a PDC at Strawberry Fields Eco-Lodge on which we trained four local teachers, along with…
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Swale and Garden Improvements
by PRI Sunshine Coast A swale dry rock wall built by WWOOFers and revamping some garden beds. To further improve…
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