Urban Projects
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Urban Garden Tour – How We Grow Food For Our Family of 6 in Our Backyard
Feeding a family of six is no easy feat, nor is it without high expense. What’s more, starting an urban…
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Is Climate Change the Shock We Need to Make the Switch to Urban Farming?
The rising demand for food around the globe is prompting the need for both scientists and farmers to deal with…
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Why Our Urban Areas Need Permaculture: The Problem is the Solution!
According to the United Nations, it has been estimated that approximately 66% of the world’s global population will be living…
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Urban Agriculture and Food Sovereignty
Urban agriculture (UA) in public spaces may have been the unloved child that mainstream western society abandoned in the 17th…
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Green Roofs: The Urban Gardens Of The Future
Cities all over the world are turning green as people plant gardens on the roofs of towering buildings. These green…
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Letter From a Forest Garden
Small is not just possible, small is inevitable. Creating autonomous control of our economics requires people to be able to…
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Playing with Cow Poo – Bio Digester Routines Part 4
Tom Kendall from the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast describes the process after the cow manure goes through the biodigester.…
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Geoff Lawton on Urban Permaculture
The Permaculture Research Insitute’s, Geoff Lawton, stopped by the Hunt Utilities Group and took a tour of the campus. He…
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Up Market Permaculture
Trailer Only.> Geoff Lawton dusts the dirt off his boots, puts on a clean blue shirt and steps into the…
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Low Cost Worm Farm ‘Tractors’ For Small Spaces
Worms may not have a backbone, but they are the backbone of our soil. In a suburban garden with no…
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Alessandra Orofino: It’s Our City. Let’s Fix It.
Too often, people feel checked out of politics — even at the level of their own city. But urban activist…
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Perennial Polyculture Prevails over Peak Oil
KrisCan visits Eric Toensmeier in his Holyoke, Massachusetts home garden that was transformed from a bleakly barren backyard into a…
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