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What is coppicing? BOTTLE TOWER GARDENS. Collapsible woven refugee shelters powered by the sun. Garden Ideas and Plans: Vertical Gardening in B. Gaia University. Design, learning & practice for liberated living. Shropshire Master Composters News: How to make a compost bin from old car tyres. The Lost Plot - Chorlton's Original Community Allotment Project. 100 Best Permaculture & Homesteading Books: The Ultimate Reading List for Sustainable Living. If you've ever considered getting into Permaculture, or if you're a veteran Permaculturist who's looking for a new skill to master, the following resources are the absolute best places for you to get started.

100 Best Permaculture & Homesteading Books: The Ultimate Reading List for Sustainable Living

Each of these books has the potential to introduce you to a whole new skill that you can enjoy for literally the rest of your life! You will find here links to over 60 Free eBook previews and full eBooks! Feel free to post down at the bottom if there are other books you would include on this list. Enjoy and Share with Your friends! Finding Funding Contacts / RHS Campaign for School Gardening.

There are many bodies, large and small, that you can approach for funding.

Finding Funding Contacts / RHS Campaign for School Gardening

Your local councils should be able to provide lists of local funders, and a selection of mainly national funders is listed below. Most have a website which you can link to by clicking on the name. Large horticultural organisations and seed companies with an educational remit may also supply items free of charge. The Association of Gardens Trusts Find your local Gardens Trust; some can provide grants for schools, and most will provide advice. ‘Vegging out’ in school is good for children - News story from Garden organic. Sustainablefoodproduction. To E-Mail: Click Here Our Next Residential Gardening/Cooking Course: 'Gardening & Cooking for Life and a Sustainable Future' £200 / £180 concession – residential course that includes food & accommodation Spring: May 2013 Autumn: 12-14 October 2012 Guardian newspaper feature and audio slideshow, Click here!

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The 50 Best garden centres - House & Garden - IndyBest

Alleyn Park "This charming garden centre tucked away in West Dulwich may be small, but the plants are well chosen, the staff extremely helpful, and the collection of gifts and gardeners' accessories delightful," says Anna Rose. "Also, if you sign up to the mailing list, a regular newsletter of inspiring hints arrives in your inbox. " Where: 77 Hall Road, London, SE21 8ES (020 8670 7788; alleynpark.co.uk) Adventures in Sustainable Eating. Permaculture Ethics. The ethics earth care, people care and fair share form the foundation for permaculture design and are also found in most traditional societies.

Permaculture Ethics

Ethics are culturally evolved mechanisms that regulate self-interest, giving us a better understanding of good and bad outcomes. The greater the power of humans, the more critical ethics become for long-term cultural and biological survival. Permaculture ethics are distilled from research into community ethics, learning from cultures that have existed in relative balance with their environment for much longer than more recent civilisations. This does not mean that we should ignore the great teachings of modern times, but in the transition to a sustainable future, we need to consider values and concepts outside the current social norm. Click on each of the icons above to learn more about each ethic. Companion planting gardening plants. Light that bad-boy up! Caution: While at first the stove is cool enough to hold in your hand, the outside does heat up and should not be touched with your bare hands.

You will be severely burned. To get the stove going I used some wadded up pieces of regular printer paper shoved into the chimney and lit on fire. This worked fine but I found that the stove really performed well when I used a little bit of paper and also placed a piece of wood down the chimney at the beginning. The whole reason this system works is due to the thermal differences between the chimney (HOT) and the fuel shelf (COOL). Getting the whole chimney nice and hot made it work right off the bat. Andrew Faust / Center For Bioregional Living. Information about the Forest School Sessions we run. Forest School Sessions for Children Forest School Learning Initiative is able to offer Forest School Sessions for your setting either on your own site or on an FSLI site.

Information about the Forest School Sessions we run

The advantage of this is that your sessions will be run by highly experienced Forest School Leaders who also have Paediatric and Outdoor First Aid qualifications, hold current CRB's and are insured through Forest School Learning Initiative. Included in the provision of sessions is all the relevant planning at the appropriate curriculum with specific links to curriculum areas to be met, communication with parents, provision of a Health & Safety Handbook for your setting and risk assessment and risk management of all sessions. £100 + VAT per session.

Agriculture vs Permaculture. How To Make An Infused Oil - Herbalism Basics 4. Can 1 miracle plant solve the world's 3 greatest problems? If someone were to tell you that they had a technology — a weed actually — that could sequester huge amounts of carbon permanently while lifting villagers out of poverty by providing both protein-rich food and super-insulated building materials, you might start to wonder if they were, well, smoking a different weed.

Can 1 miracle plant solve the world's 3 greatest problems?

But it appears that one retired building contractor, Bill Loftus, has actually come upon a brilliant application of the fast-growing, carbon-sucking plant known as Kenaf. Why permaculture folks love comfrey. Permies: a big crowd of permaculture goofballs.