Too many of our communities, both here and around the world, are dealing with housing difficulties, food insecurity, social isolation, and other issues. Furthermore, the various consequences of the Covid epidemic and climate change are immediate and ongoing. How can we face these difficulties and help our communities prosper in an economic system that traps […]
After discovering the Soil Food Web Approach (Nature’s Soil Operating System) nearly four decades ago and pioneering research in the field, Dr. Elaine Ingham is recognized as the foremost soil biologist in the world. In this series of four presentations, Dr. Elaine Ingham presents her soil science for beginners masterclass. She covers what the soil […]
Compost worm farms transform household waste into a resource, a very valuable resource, a nutrient-rich fertilizer (liquid and solid) while also closing the loop on food waste cycles in households. Compost worms are a great way to make your own fertilizer for organic gardening, and they are equally as good for recycling food waste at […]
The single most impactful thing a gardener can do is learn about how plants work. To do that, you must learn about the soil food web of life. In this video Keith from Canadian Permaculture Legacy, attempts to cover this topic in detail, but also to keep you awake and entertained while doing so. This […]
If you’ve been curious about how a good, biologically active vermicompost is made, Zach Books guides us through the operation at Arizona Worm Farm in Phoenix, AZ. This is an excellent video that talks about not just how to make compost and raised bed mix on scale, but some of the basic necessities for starting […]
In 2007, Ole and Maitri Ersson bought the rundown Cabana apartment complex in the city and immediately began to de-pave parking spaces to make space for what today is a huge permaculture coliving space and urban food forest. Today, the Kailash Ecovillage has 55 residents who all help farm where there was once pavement, grass, […]
Between 30 to 40 percent of the United States’ food supply is wasted. Vermicomposting keeps that garbage out of the landfill and turns it back into food. You probably end up throwing away a lot of food after some meals. It’s okay, most of us wish we were better about food waste but it often […]
Aquaponics combines two growing methods, aquaculture and hydroponics, to create a self-contained, well-balanced ecosystem. Fish are fed and raised in a tank and as gravity pulls the wastewater through a hydroponic garden, bacteria feed on the waste, breaking it down into essential nutrients for the plants to grow. The system then returns the cleaned water […]
In the early 90s, Mark and Jen Shepard bought a degraded corn farm in Viola, Wisconsin, and began to slowly convert it from row-crops back to a native oak savanna that would become one of the most productive perennial farms in the country. After 8 years of homesteading in Alaska (arriving just as the Homestead […]
Syntropic farming is a new and ancient permaculture practice that can be implemented in any region, in any climate, in limitless ways – even in your own backyard. For over a decade the Lotz-Keegan family have been implementing permaculture practices to regenerate a degraded hillside into an abundant food forest of native and exotic trees […]