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20 Ways to control slugs in the permaculture garden or on the allotment
Ludwig Appeltans |
Tuesday, 12th June 2012

There are many tips about how to fight these invertebrates circulating around allotments and gardens – some are fables, some are more effective than others. The reality is that no single thing does the trick. In short, the solution is to create an ecosystem in...

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The Resurgence of Community Gardening & Urban Agriculture in North America
Steve Green |
Wednesday, 6th June 2012

From Ford City Community Garden, located on Drouillard Road, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, I can see the automotive 'business trees' of Detroit, Michigan, stretching out from their concrete roots along the riverside. Some of them are vacant, have been for years....

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Easy Rhubarb & Vanilla Jam
Maddy Harland |
Sunday, 3rd June 2012

I gave my neighbour aka The Jam Queen 2kg of rhubarb yesterday and she made rhubarb and ginger jam. Delicious. Today to compare I made rhubarb and vanilla jam. Both have the refreshing sharpness of rhubarb and the complexity of the spice but are different. The...

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Earth Education: Permaculture for Kids
Sarah Smith |
Tuesday, 29th May 2012

We had been given a beautifully etched map of the woods... we navigated around an ancient oak, climbed over roots, ran through clearings and splashed through puddles... we were trying to find our way to the Top Secret Area...

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Planting Naturalistic Polycultures in the Vegetable Garden
Maddy Harland |
Tuesday, 22nd May 2012

Our one third acre garden started life as a permaculture design on paper before it was made, but 20 years later Tim and I are erring more and more on letting nature take its course and as well as experimentation. Our vegetable patch is an example.

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Fossil Fuel Fertilizers v. Compost Teas on the Farm
Rebecca Hosking |
Friday, 18th May 2012

Around the home and garden you may know it as Miracle-gro®, Phostrogen®, Baby bio®, Growmore® or by one of its other fertile names. On the farm its many forms may be referred to as 'super triple phosphate', Nitram®, '20:10:10', just 'nitrogen' or – rather...

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Mulching Potatoes With Straw
Rémy Bacher |
Tuesday, 8th May 2012

Mulching potato plants with straw is a method well known to us, in the world of permaculture. But the question of whether "to dig or not to dig" is not black and white.

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Living for free: a community thriving by recycling other people's waste
Richard Perkins |
Friday, 4th May 2012

We are now a month into our epic global family film journey documenting active and replicable solutions in all areas of permaculture design. Our recent trip to the Plukrijp community made a strong impression on us. Situated in Schriek, Belgium, this small farm has...