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Mineralising the Soil

Mineralizing your farm soil is something many permaculturalists like to do frequently. Various minerals are mixed with a pollard and fed to the farm animals. The manure that the animals produce is gathered and returned to the garden once bacteria and micro-organisms have reprocessed the minerals in a form that can be absorbed by the plants. The end result is …

How Chickens work with Cows to improve Soil

Using chickens to graze behind cows is a new way to improve soil fertility and pasture management. At the Permaculture Research Institute there’s a couple of neat looking chicken tractors standing in the center of the cow paddock. What exactly are they doing there? According to Geoff Lawton who has two specialty built tractors that can be moved by one …

Using Chickens to Create Compost Easily

One of the great tips in the Permaculture Soils DVD is how to use chickens to do a lot of the composting for you. We all know chickens like to scratch and break the pest cycle but did you know how to harness chickens to direct their scratching to create compost for you? One of the little known facts is …

Create an Instant Garden the easy way!

Here’s a fast way to build a vegetable garden directly on grass or lawn without digging. Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton demonstrates this method on his farm and has been using this method for years with instant results using discarded cardboard packaging, junk mail, newspapers etc.Here’s what you need to get before you build your no dig sheet mulch garden bed. …