25 Ways to Integrate Local Foods into Our Lives

Buy locally produced food to support our small, regional farms and preserve our agricultural heritage and traditions. It strengthens our local economy and reinforces the web that connects us to others within our communities. It [...]

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The Actual ‘73 Giving Tree Movie Spoken By Shel Silverstein

It’s a classic, but what a story.

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Introduction To Permaculture Design DVD Trailer

Thanks @Sunnyslopes

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The Rocket-Powered Shower

Spending all your day gathering sticks for a hot shower is just no fun. No fun at all. Mind you, anything that results in a hot shower (or even better, a hot bath) has to be considered a priority at Milkwood. So when Nick finished converting the old ‘Sunbeam Sheep Shower’ structure (basically a new-fangled [...]

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How To: build a Geodesic Chook Dome

Maybe you’re already familiar with that classic Permaculture tool known as the Chicken Tractor / Chook Dome system. No? Awright – in a nutshell: In this context, a Chicken Tractor is any structure that can be moved from place to place in a garden with a bunch of chickens housed in it. The chickens living [...]

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Save water by using less on your landscape 15 ways to be more water-efficient in your garden

Work the soil
Rich soil with plenty of organic matter, from regular additions of compost, soaks up rainwater better than barren, compacted dirt that shrugs it off.
Mulch
No garden should ever flash bare dirt because a layer of mulch over the soil does so much: It insulates the soil from temperature swings, reduces weeds and feeds the [...]

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PermaculturePower Blog Survey

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Principles of Permaculture Design – David Holmgren & Bill Mollison

David Holmgren’s Principles for Permaculture Design
Bill Mollison Principles of Permaculture Design

Source

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Permaculture Techniques

First Steps to Permaculture
Definitions
Ethics and Principles
Characteristics
Organic Gardening
Companion Planting
Crop Rotation
Useful Animals – see below list also
Integrating Animals
Recycling
Plant Stacking
Mulching
Catastrophe Planning
Useful Plants
Orchard
Vegetable Garden
Biological Control
Composting
Energy Harvesting
Terraforming
Sustainable Harvesting
No Dig Gardening
Zones
Zone Analysis
Sectors
Sector Analysis & Map

more

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How to Build a PVC Hoophouse for your Garden

An unheated PVC hoophouse can be a useful addition to your garden. It keeps excessive rain off the plants, blocks the wind, raises daytime temperatures 5-10 degrees (and often much more), and keeps frosts and heavy dew off the leaves. This can extend your warm-season gardening a month or more at both ends, and makes [...]

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