Soil Rehabilitation
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Does Comfrey Really Improve Soil?
All of us who have studied permaculture have heard some impressive claims about comfrey. It is a dynamic nutrient accumulator;…
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Building the Chicken Tractor on Steroids
"Who can weld?" Geoff asks. Keen to impress, my hand goes up. “I will see you at the shed after…
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Seeds of Permaculture – Tropical Permaculture (video)
An interactive film about permaculture in the tropics, with education and inspiration as the main threads running through this hour-and-a-half-documentary.
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Swale Pathways (Tasmania, Australia)
by Good Life Permaculture Diagram of a traditional swale system Hobart is Australia’s second driest capital city (Adelaide’s first) so…
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Advanced Cell Grazing with Geoff Lawton
Last year on Permaculture News there was an excellent article on Advanced Cell Grazing by Nick Burtner who documents the…
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Biological Carpeting
Biological Carpeting is a method introduced to us by Rodger Savory of Savory Grassland Management. Rodger is the son of…
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Bhaskar Save, the Gandhi of Natural Farming
Sage of a minimalist farming system based on non-violence and all of nature’s biodiversity that produces in abundance with no…
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Trophic Cascades – On the Reintroduction of Wolves to Yellowstone National Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.…
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Earthworms at Work
The last post of Phillip Bradley was about no till farming practices, cover cropping and direct sowing. We have farmers…
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Under Cover Farmers (videos)
While researching cover cropping, I came across the video above, featuring an explanation from the Rodale Institute (U.S.) of their…
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