Originally from Asia Minor, the fig is probably the oldest cultivated fruit in the world. There is evidence to suggest that some 10,000 years ago some of us were planting figs...
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Free Heritage Seed Saving Plan
Free Heritage Seed Saving Plan
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Ireland's First Free Pub is Open!
Ireland's First Free Pub is Open!
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Bruce Charles 'Bill' Mollison 1928-2016
Bruce Charles 'Bill' Mollison 1928-2016
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David Holmgren
I decided to go to college rather than spend the day turning the compost, making bread and maybe finalising the garden plan. The plan, part of my last semester project, was still...
Wade Muggleton
One of the features of permaculture gardening is that we inevitably experiment with a vast range of crops and my own mantra has always been that ‘Diversity Rules’; the wider...
Alice Griffin
For the last couple of years, my family and I have been living a life divided between our smallholding in the Sao Mamede Natural Park, Portugal, and a narrowboat in the UK. The reasons...
Maddy Harland
A couple of years ago Tim and I visited author and activist, Mark Boyle, in the wilds of county Galway, Ireland. Called An Teach Saor, Gaelic for 'the free house', it is a...
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Maddy Harland
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Maddy Harland
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Maddy Harland
Kerry Forides
Heritage seed loss is a global problem. I believe when we buy any packaged seed, hybridised to produce sterile offspring, we are directly contributing to the genocide of global...
Farm Africa
For the two thirds of people in Kenya who rely on the food they grow and animals they keep, frequent droughts can leave many struggling to produce enough to feed their families.
In recent years,...
Clint Elston
I would like to share an experiment I recently finished on a house in Minnesota; that of separating the potable water according to the varying quality needs of specific plumbing fixtures, e.g., all...
Treehugger
These natural and DIY pesticides are effective at helping to rid your crops of harmful critters, but safe enough to keep from poisoning you and your family.
There's nothing like having a home...
Graham Bell
Graham Bell's moving tribute to Bill Mollison, who died 24 September in Tasmania, a true pioneer who gave up a promising academic career to challenge the status quo and establish the...
Rozie Apps
The beauty of permaculture is that it mimics nature, which means it can be applied to all kinds of landscapes and environments. I’m...
Maddy Harland
Industrial agriculture is one of the processes that spews carbon and other greenhouse gases into our atmosphere. Carbon farming,...
Tony Rollinson
Temper Theatre, a company of 18 to 22 year olds and led by 22 year old Finn Morrell, is taking...
Bill Roley
Climate change and increased variability of severe droughts worsens our problems of landscape, orchard and crop production....
