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Gaia's Garden: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture
Published on 2010-09-12 09:32:13
Permaculture is a verbal marriage of “permanent” and “agriculture.” Australian Bill Mollison pioneered its development. Key features include:use of compatible perennials;non-invasive planting techniques;emphasis on biodiversity;specifically adaptable to local climate, landscape, and soil conditions;highly productive output of edibles.Now, picture your backyard as one incredibly lush garden, filled with edible flowers, bursting with fruit and berries, and carpeted with scented
Seven Food Forests in Seven Minutes
Published on 2010-09-11 18:13:30
Food forests are at the heart of Permaculture and fast becoming a hot topic in many areas of debate as people realise the their full potential.Let's face it, with our all consuming global problems, there aren't many natural solutions out there that can halt & reverse deforestation, stabilise the climate by returning carbon to the soil where it belongs, solve poverty & extreme hunger all in one hit are there?Yet this is exactly what the food forest is capable of, and provided peopl
Garden Plan - The Edible Garden series
Published on 2010-09-11 12:32:23
A foreword from Alys Why I garden.I garden because I am hungry. Or more precisely because I have a hunger, one that can only be satisfied through soil and satiated through fresh growth. I garden because I have to, it is how I define who I am, it is one of the ways I make sense of this world and it is how I pay back my place in it. Over the years I have come to see is not just that I garden, but how I garden that matters.Making The Edible Garden has been about finding a way to garden tha
