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101 Permaculture Designs, Downloadable Imgur Album. Creative Container Gardens: Free PDF. To make all of these Instructables, download this collection of How To’s as an ebook.

Creative Container Gardens: Free PDF

Download » Whether you feel constrained by space or are just looking for new ways to display your garden, "Creative Container Gardens" is for you! You'll find unique ways to display your plants using everything from bottles, to walls, to imaginatively re-purposed household objects. All projects come from Instructables.com, are written by our creative community, and contain pictures for each step so you can easily make these yourself. Instructables is the most popular project-sharing community on the Internet. DIY Hydroponics: Free PDF. To make all of these Instructables, download this collection of How To’s as an ebook.

DIY Hydroponics: Free PDF

Download » DIY Hydroponics gives you full step-by-step instructions for 18 projects to get your indoor harvest growing. Learn how to get started in the field of hydroponics with projects that range from beginner to fully automated watering systems with grow lights. All projects come from Instructables.com, are written by home-growing experts, and contain pictures for each step so you can get growing today! Instructables is the most popular project-sharing community on the Internet. Sarah James Editor, Food & LivingInstructables.com. Seed Saving Guide: The Seed Ambassadors Project. Some wonderful person has compiled lots of seed saving resources into one place, including a slideshow version of our ‘zine: A Guide to Seed Saving, Seed Stewardship and Seed Sovereignty.

Seed Saving Guide: The Seed Ambassadors Project

Check them all out out at Here is the 4th edition of our Seed Ambassadors Project Seed Saving Guide. Agriculture Library Index. Construct A Greenhouse. Science by Design Series., 2000-Mar. This book is one of four books in the Science-by-Design Series created by TERC and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Construct A Greenhouse. Science by Design Series., 2000-Mar

This series presents directed instruction on how to successfully formulate and carry out product design. Students learn and apply concepts in science and technology to design and build a pair of insulated gloves, a model boat, a greenhouse, and a catapult. This book engages high school students in a problem-solving challenge to design and build a physical system that provides an optimal environment for plant growth. In addition to learning and applying concepts in thermodynamics, light absorption, and plant biology, students must make a range of decisions as they encounter cost constraints, construction alternatives, and environmental changes. The activities have assessment suggestions and Internet extensions through the National Science Teachers Association's (NSTA) sciLINKS program. Free eBooks Archive - Permaculture Media Blog. See also: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau - Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849.

Free eBooks Archive - Permaculture Media Blog

It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War. Plants For A Future: Survey and Research Project on 'The Field' - A report is now available of the recently completed survey and research project on the 'The Field', the experimental site of Ken and Addy Fern ( Plants For A Future founders) in Cornwall, where they carried out research and provided information on edible and otherwise useful plants suitable for growing outdoors in a temperate climate.

Best of the Permaculture Drylands Magazine - Now Online! Rooftop Permaculture PDFs. Guide To Setting Up An Edible Rooftop Garden. Here is our new how-to guide "Guide to Setting up Your Own Edible Rooftop Garden"!!!

Guide To Setting Up An Edible Rooftop Garden

Get our new publication (now available in English)! The Rooftop Garden Project team has written a step-by-step guide to assist you in the creation and horticultural and social success of your own rooftop garden. The guide is written for groups, individuals and establishments that would like to create an urban edible rooftop garden for educational, social, therapeutic or environmental reasons but may not have access to the necessary space to do so in the soil. 33 Tips: Lawn To Permaculture Food Forest: Booklet. Waking Times Does the idea of getting fresh, nutritious food right out in front of you kitchen door sound like a good idea in these turbulent times?

33 Tips: Lawn To Permaculture Food Forest: Booklet

A growing movement to reclaim, restore, and re-localize our relationship to food is happening all around us, and you can participate by re-thinking what you do with the under-utilized space outside of your home. The manicured, grassed, perennially green American lawn is a symbol of a passing era when people had little understanding of how the developing industrialized food system could do them harm by overuse of pesticides, anti-biotics and herbicides, by depletion the soil, and by genetic modification of food crops. Rather than acquiescing to the health tyranny of modern food production, today’s forward-thinking citizens and rebels are re-developing the model for the American lawn, and bringing forth a new kind of revolution… an edible one.

This article is offered under Creative Commons license. Soil & Personal Health Library. Free Vintage Gardening Books. Gardening Downloads: TheLostSeed.com. Sow When Chart A simple chart to be used as a guide as to which vegetables, herbs etc to plant throughout the year in your particular area.

Gardening Downloads: TheLostSeed.com

Please note that chart is to be used as a guide only & will vary depending on your local area. (.pdf file) Guide to Selecting TomatoesA simple chart to be used as a guide to selecting tomatoes, according to size, shape, colour, early varieties & unusual characteristics. (.pdf file) Order FormTo place an order you can do so either via our website, or if you prefer to fax or post your order to us, you can either print out your shopping cart, or use the Order Form below. (.pdf file) Wholesale Seed Packet Re-Order FormTo place a wholesale order (approved retail outlets only) you can do so either via our website by placing your order, then entering the coupon code 'WHOLESALE' to apply wholesale pricing, or if you prefer simply print out the form below (.pdf file) & fax to us 02 6493 0286. Gardening - Free Ebooks. Small Farms Library - Journey To Forever.

Holistic Agriculture Library. Free Books - Sustainable Agriculture. CropREFERENCE. Horticulture (Bookshelf)