Soil Conservation
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Keyline Design as an Organizing Pattern for Permaculture Design, Part 2 (Sweden)
This is part 2 of a series of 5 articles looking at design considerations for our Cold Climate Permaculture site…
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Desert Food Forest and Organic Commercial Production in Three Years – Update on Wadi Rum Consultancy (Jordan)
Outside the fence On August 6, 2010 Craig Mackintosh posted on my initial consultancy for the site I’m reporting on…
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Addressing the Causes of Land Degradation, Food/Nutritional Insecurity and Poverty: a New Approach to Agricultural Intensification in the Tropics and Subtropics
by Roger RB Leakey, Agroforestry and Novel Crops Unit, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.…
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UNCCD Land for Life Award Winners for 2013 (India, Mexico, Africa): Practical, Doable, Magic
Educating small-holder farmers in India Every year the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) presents awards and supportive prize-money…
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Rough, Ready, But Very Real – a November 2013 Update on the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’ Site)
Project from above, featuring a garbage-accumulating fence edge Well, you would be hard pressed to find a tougher block of…
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India’s Foundation for Ecological Security Awarded Land for Life Award
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsBBT3OAMME India’s Foundation for Ecological Security is currently in the process of restoring over half a million acres of common…
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Surviving Global Warming – Localized Food & Energy Systems in Nature’s Circular Economy
Record-breaking heat waves destroying harvests and worse predicted, localized food and energy systems urgently needed if we are to survive.…
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OrBio – a Cover Crop Strategy for Market Gardens
A bug’s eye view of the sky, from a stand of cover crop Photo © Craig Mackintosh A recent post…
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Soil, not Dirt – Dr Elaine Ingham Talks Soil Microbiology
Dr. Elaine Ingham talks about soil fertility and the role of soil microbial life. Dr. Ingham is a world-renowned soil…
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Paradigm Shift Urgently Needed In Agriculture – UN Agencies Call for an End to Industrial Agriculture & Food System
A rising chorus from UN agencies on how food security, poverty, gender inequality and climate change can all be addressed…
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Wildlife Friendly Gardening Begins Beneath Us
Why dig? Why turn over tonnes of topsoil year after year. We know permanent soil has properties that annual crops…
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Maximum Yield Cropping System (MYCS)
There are many economic, social and environmental benefits to be gained by increasing the current yield from existing food production…
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