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A Farm for the Future
"Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family's farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key." BBC - Natural World
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Vela Creations is a documentation of our experiences and projects living off the grid. We are a young couple striving to fulfill our lifestyles through sustainable means. Our hope is that our experiences will serve as guidence to those interested in the technologies and methods illustrated on this site.
Welcome to FreeRange Permaculture. Permaculture Design and Education for Far North Queensland
FreeRange Permaculture provides world class design & education services appropriate to both urban and rural landscapes.Our range of courses and workshops, in a variety of sustainable practices including Permaculture and Keyline Design, aim to empower you with the skills and knowledge required to design and develop sustainable systems anywhere in the world.
Permaculture Research Institute of Australia » Bill Mollison Interview from 1991
Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don’t just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong. For example, if you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they’ll die in the next fire, or where you can’t get water to them. Or they’ll sit in all the dam sites. Or they’ll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.
Polyface, Inc.
Polyface, Inc. is a family owned, multi-generational, pasture-based, beyond organic, local-market farm and informational outreach in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
High Priest of the Pasture - New York Times
For 44 years on the western edge of the Shenandoah Valley, three generations of Salatins (of which he's the middle) have raised grass-fed livestock on rough and hilly land without recourse to an ounce of chemical fertilizer or a fistful of seed, in close touch with the soil, the seasons and themselves, using methods meant to mimic nature. The result is lush fields of unusual greenness -- even in the sodden melting snow of a late winter morning -- and pork, eggs and poultry of uncommon cleanliness and indescribably good taste.
No Bar Code
An evangelical Virginia farmer says a revolution against industrial agriculture is just down the road.
Food Forest DVD
Join Geoff Lawton on a Permaculture adventure as he demonstrates how to grow a food forest from start to finish.\nOver 90 minutes of quality information to get you on the right track in creating your own garden of Eden.
Landline - 06/04/2008: Food Forest . Australian Broadcasting Corp
One of the more interesting developments in Australian agriculture over the past decade has been the growing influence of the permaculture movement.
Whether you're talking sustainable water and land management, integrated pest control or organic fertilis
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The Food Forest is a permaculture farm producing 160 varieties of organically
certified food; it is a busy centre for people interested in learning skills for a
sustainable way of life through short courses and it is the base for a
consultancy
Amazon.com: How to Make a Forest Garden: Patrick Whitefield: Books
A forest garden is a food-producing garden, based on the model of a natural woodland or forest. It is made up of fruit and nut trees, fruit bushes, perennial vegetables and herbs. It can be tailored to fit any space, from a tiny urban back yard to a large
Amazon.com: Earth User's Guide to Permaculture: Rosemary Morrow, Rob Allsop: Books
the book focusses on two different real-life examples, a small suburban house and an eighty acre farm. Seeing permaculture in action in real places is very helpful.
Amazon.com: Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture: Toby Hemenway, John Todd: Books
explains how gardens can function as ecosystems, describes the basic parts of an ecological garden (soil, water, plants, and animals), and shows how to create backyard ecosystems through guilds.
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper.
"It's technically possible that the traditional older suburbs could actually produce all of the food needed to sustain the people living there," he says.
TED | Talks | Michael Pollan: The omnivore's next dilemma (video)
What if human consciousness isn't the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game, the ultimate prize of which is world domination? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see things from a plant's-eye view
Welcome to ALS - To Aussies Living Simply
We are a community focused on sustainability, permaculture, organic gardening, backyard livestock, simple living and stepping lightly on the planet. We invite you to become a member, it’s free and you’ll be part of one of the most interesting and fri
Berkeley: Urban farmers produce nearly all their food with a sustainable garden in their backyard | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
What makes the salads prepared by Jim Montgomery and Mateo Rutherford different is that almost every component has been grown, raised or made in their West Berkeley backyard -- the purple endive, the lettuce, the tomatoes, the carrots, the green beans and
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