Articles by Maddy Harland
Why is Polyface Farm so successful? How Joel Salatin creates self-generating, profitable enterprises
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Tuesday, 14th May 2013
Joel Salatin not only builds soil and locks up carbon, he makes money out of farming and so do his associates. Here's an analysis of Polyface's organisational structure and the Salatin magic.
Maddy Harland |
Friday, 3rd May 2013
Maddy spotted this neat solution to providing temporary outdoor handwashing facilities for a party, event or festival.
Maddy Harland |
Tuesday, 30th April 2013
In part two of the Joel Salatin series, Maddy describes how Polyface Farm designs its sales and marketing strategies and ventures and why it is so successful. This understanding of 'tribe' can be applied to any business large or small.
Maddy Harland |
Monday, 29th April 2013
Maddy meets Joel Salatin and hears how Polyface Farm has restored the soil, locked up carbon and makes a healthy profit for all its micro-enterprises. Salatin-style farming is cool!
Maddy Harland |
Thursday, 18th April 2013
Maddy celebrates the coming of spring and shares some funny and inspiring films and useful resources
Maddy Harland |
Saturday, 13th April 2013
Lammas is a good example of bringing new life to barren pastures, through building an eco-village that aims to sustain itself. This new film looks at how this low impact self-build community coped building regulations, and the challenges and celebrations of creating a bio-diverse community.
Maddy Harland |
Friday, 12th April 2013
In the last of the 'what is permaculture?' series, Maddy explores working with natural forces on the land and in society.
Maddy Harland |
Wednesday, 27th March 2013
Maddy explores small-scale intensive systems, discusses neonicotinoids and plummeting bee populations, the global hold of 10 corporation on our food systems, ecocity design and also proposes that there are times when small or intensive is not appropriate for permaculture design.
Maddy Harland |
Wednesday, 20th March 2013
Maddy explains a permaculture design principle that turns the world on its head – Energy Cycling. She also offers biological and a business example and also a world-changing idea, the Gift Economy.
Maddy Harland |
Wednesday, 13th March 2013