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1+1=salade ? Permaculture Magazine - Inspiration for Sustainable Living | Permaculture Magazine San Francisco Permaculture Garden Grows Thousands of Pounds of Food Image credit: Growing Your Greens From an awesome tour of an urban permaculture allotment through wild permaculture forest gardening on the BBC to greening the deserts of Jordan, we've seen plenty of great footage of how permaculture design can help grow healthy, productive food systems that need minimal inputs or management. Here we see another example growing in the heart of San Francisco, and I am reminded yet again why permaculture is so ideally suited to collective, community gardening. While some of its most ardent advocates will claim that permaculture designs can be almost completely self sufficient, I've yet to see a system like that. From harvesting to occasional weeding to mulching and watering, most permaculture gardens still require significant human management. While a backyard garden may get frequent attention, a community garden more typically relies on weekend workdays and big volunteer "blitzes". Many thanks to John of Growing Your Greens for a great video tour.

Permaculture University Costa Rica Great Vegetable Seeds from The Real Seed Catalogue Pattern Literacy Cultivate's Permaculture Blog | Cultivating sustainable lifestyles and resilient communities How Nature Makes Soil, And You Can Too (Video) Image credit: Ecofilms Australia From helping to convert arid, salty desert into a productive permaculture garden, to reminding us of the astounding fact that there are 40 tons of life in just one acre of soil, Geoff Lawton knows a thing or two about the magic of soil. Here he reveals a few choice places where nature likes to make soil (it's not where you'd think!) I am assuming this clip was filmed as part of Geoff's Permaculture Soils DVD, which looks to be a veritable feast of information, tips and inspiration for those gardeners who believe in the old adage that if you feed the soil, the plants look after themselves. Certainly the notion of looking to the bottom of your pond for valuable soil, before you go buying in top soil stripped from land elsewhere, is about as simple and as important a tip as I can think of. Thanks again for the inspiration Geoff.

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