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84Hugelkultur: Using Woody Waste in Composting
Hugelkultur is an ancient form of sheet composting developed in Eastern Europe. It uses woody wastes such as fallen logs and pruned branches in order to build soil fertility and improve drainage and moisture...
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77Reduce Rabbit Hutch Maintenance With Worm Bins
Whether you keep rabbits as pets, for show, or for meat and fur, you can reduce rabbit hutch maintenance by incorporating worm bins into your hutch design. Rabbits produce a lot of manure for their size (a...
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80Forest Gardening: An Introduction
Have you begun to feel that the time you spend watering and cutting your lawn is a waste and probably doing more harm than good? Tired of using poisonous chemicals to keep that lawn green and golf course...
11 comments73Global Food Supply: What Does It Mean To You
It is time to go grocery shopping; you hop into the family car and head for the grocery store. The parking lot is as crowded as ever, after all, yesterday was payday. Once inside the store, you start...
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53Transition Towns in the United States
The Transition Town movement was popularized by permaculture instructor Rob Hopkins after founding the first formal Transition Town Initiative in Totnes, Devon, England. The movement has spread extremely...
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78Organic Pest Control with Companion Planting
One of the keys to organic gardening is to imitate nature. There are no garden rows in nature - everything appears to be in disorder. Yet each plant, fungus, insect, animal fit into the natural balance....
4 comments70Permaculture Beginnings
Permaculture has been spreading across the world for nearly fourty years now. When I tell people I have studied permaculture, both a 72 hour introduction course and a 72 hour design certificate course,...
17 comments66Taking a Permaculture Course
Permaculture is a holistic, nature inspired design methodology that can be used to grow food, build businesses and create communities. Why study permaculture?> There are a number of reasons why a...
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62Gardening With Nature's Bounty
There are only a very few ways I enjoy investing my time that surpass the moments I spend in my garden. Some of those activities such as reading only surpass gardening in the winter months when my garden...
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70Don't Plant Me Here!
A long time ago, as a young bride, we were both in the Air Force and stationed at Dyess AFB, in Abilene, Texas. I can distinctly remember thinking, "Lord, don't plant me here!" Texas back then, in my mind,...
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