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Earthly Issues Site Map. Permaculture Ideas. Rainbow Valley Farm was established in 1988 by Joe Polaischer and Trish Allen on what their neighbours referred to as 'rubbish land'.

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Wall-to-wall gorse weed, and deemed unfarmable. The most inspiring thing for me was observing such a richness of life, and such diversity in an evidently established state, and then discovering that it was all done in less than 15 years! Here's an amazing story reminding us that if we devote our energies to developing beneficial, tangible realities we're establishing real physical connections - a living system of co-creating elements, which provides that entire system and all it's co-ceators a better position. Here's their story: In 1988 we arrived at the run-down farmland we had purchased in Matakana, north of Auckland, New Zealand, in a housetruck, carrying with us a dream to become self-sufficient and tread lightly on the Earth. We named the farm “Rainbow Valley Farm” because we saw so many rainbows arching over our new home. Sonoran Permaculture.

The National Center for Appropriate Technology. Permaculture. Regenerative Agricultural and Permaculture Design-Education-Research-Media - Home. PermaculturePower. Permaculture Ideas Great source of Permaculture information.

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Permaculture Media Blog Documentaries, videos and ebooks related to permaculture, indigenous people, (alter)globalization, ecology and activism. Permacultureprinciples.com The content on this website is inspired by the work of permaculture co-originator David Holmgren. Abdallahhouse.blogspot.com “Using permaculture ethics and design principles to tranform a old energy guzzling bungalow into a showcase of sustainable design.

Bloominginspace.wordpress.com blog A toolbox to help folks learn about autonomous living systems, design them, and put them into practice. Free Resource Toolbox Keith Johnson blog. Plants For A Future : 7000 Edible, Medicinal & Useful Plants. Own-root fruit trees - PermaWiki. Some species of fruit are commonly grown on their own roots: new plants are propagated by rooting, layering, or modern tissue-culture techniques.

Own-root fruit trees - PermaWiki

In some situations, special rootstocks may not confer any advantage or may be unavailable to the grower. THE OWN-ROOT FRUIT TREE PROJECT. [funded by the profits of Cool Temperate Plants and Services] This project is based on the unpublished work of Hugh Ermen, formerly of Brogdale Horticultural Experimental Station and now retired and breeding new varieties of fruit trees.

THE OWN-ROOT FRUIT TREE PROJECT

Hugh discovered that there are several advantages in growing apples on their own roots [OR], i.e. not grafted onto a rootstock. Those advantages are: better health - although not altering the basic susceptibility of the variety to disease fruit development is typical of the variety, giving:- best possible flavour best storage life typical fruit size for the variety best overall fruit quality - best fruit set, given adequate pollination. The only disadvantage of OR trees is that some varieties may be more vigorous than is usually wanted, though the average size of an OR tree is not large. The typical size of spur-type OR tree is similar to a tree on m9, i.e. 2-3 metres tall;

GIAHS: GIAHS - Home. The Land Institute. Financial Permaculture. Permaculture Design - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks. Forward This Wikibook is, of course, a collaborative research project.

Permaculture Design - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

It's currently in its early stages. If there are dead links, you are encouraged to fill them in. Feel free to use the discussion tab at the top of this page to discuss this and any other topic in the book. Use the discussion page to discuss anything from format and content to objectives and style, and respectfully edit and add where needed. Introduction Plan drawings for a herb spiral. Permaculture has its origins in the designs of produce gardens, farms, houses and communities, and so the examples and references in texts are dominated by such.

This book aims to provide a theoretical overview of permaculture to serve as a starting point for the research and application thereof. Contents References Wikilinks Related books Other Resources. Permaculture TV. Open Source Ecology. Permaculture Design - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks. The Basics Of Permaculture Design. Permaculture Landscape Design: Utilizing Succession for Simple Living on Farms. Like natural systems, small farm systems created through Permaculture Landscape Design evolve towards more productive states by succession.

Permaculture Landscape Design: Utilizing Succession for Simple Living on Farms

However, in Permaculture we accelerate the normally slow process through clever design, and can gain yields at every stage to support simple living on farms rapidly, rather than waiting several decades for nature to do it for us. Natural systems evolve slowly to more productive states by succession. The process of succession begins naturally on landscapes denuded or devastated by agents such as fire, drought, flood or lava flow. Such impoverished landscapes will first be colonized by hardy “pioneer” plants. These species, which include short-lived nitrogen fixing shrubs and many weeds, act as nature’s band-aids. The role of weeds and other pioneers is to restore conditions favorable to more productive and biodiverse systems. Permaculture Research Institute of Australia.

PermaWiki. A Trip to the Agroforestry Research Trust’s Forest Garden. 9 Nov 2006 A Trip to the Agroforestry Research Trust’s Forest Garden.

A Trip to the Agroforestry Research Trust’s Forest Garden.

**Notes from A Trip to the [Agroforesty Research Trust]( Forest Garden, Dartington, Totnes, Devon. Friday November 3rd 2006.** Martin Crawford started his forest garden at Dartington 15 years ago. The forest garden covers about 2 acres, and is filled with a dazzling arrany of plants, chosen for their edible, medicinal or other uses. The first tree we visited was **Szechuan Pepper** (*Zanthoxylum schinifolium*)(see right), a tree that grows to about 5 metres.

All over the ground in the first part of the garden we went into was **Japanese Blackberry** (*Rubus tricolour*), a low growing, shade tolerant shrub. One of my favourite discoveries was the **Plum Yew** (*Cephalotaxus harringtonia var. drupacea*). He showed us a **Flowering Quince**, often found in peoples’ gardens as an ornamental, but most people don’t know that it can be eaten. Permaculture forums: gardening, homesteading and permaculture. Punk Rock Permaculture E-zine. Using Mushrooms to digest cigarette butts #permaculture This video from Peter of the Radical Mycology Project describes a method for training mushrooms to digest cigarette filters, now that’s pretty darn cool!

Punk Rock Permaculture E-zine

By the way there are only 24hrs left to support the Radical Mycology Book campaign! Check out the great perks for a truly inspiring project. Permaculture Ethics & Principles. CASFS. Sustainable World Media. Permaculture Planet - The Planetary Permaculture Forum. Permaculture Ideas. Green Techniques.

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Bkrdpintcur. Permaculture Association. Living in circles - Sustainable culture design. Vidéo.