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Tom Kendall’s Farm
  • Permaculture
Aug19

Tom Kendall’s ...

posted by Ecofilms

  Just visiting Tom Kendall’s farm in Kin-Kin, Queensland, Australia. Shot this on Sunday. He’s got great infrastructure,  such a wonderful farm. We even got to see a new baby goat being born. Visit Tom Kendall’s website at http://www.permaculturesunshinecoast.org for more...

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DIY Strawbale Chicken Coop
  • Permaculture
  • Techniques DIY
Aug30

DIY Strawbale Chicke...

posted by Ecofilms

Here’s a great idea for a Chicken coop built to fit the dimensions of straw bales. A simple four post construction with a raised floor and tin roof is all you need. Both sides of the chicken coop have a temporary straw-bale walls that keeps the coop warm in winter and cool in summer....

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DIY Radial Flow Filter for Aquaponics
  • Aquaponics
  • Techniques DIY
Aug15

DIY Radial Flow Filt...

posted by Ecofilms

  Radial Flow Settlers are a type of filter that removes all the gunk and fish poop that occurs in a recirculated aquaponics system. Handy if you have overstocked your fish tank or over-fed the fish as the water quality suddenly gets murky and is less than pristine.   How does it...

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How a $2 Pocket Knife is ReGreening Africa
  • Environment
  • Permaculture
Jun19

How a $2 Pocket Knif...

posted by Ecofilms

How can barren fields, degraded forests and grazing lands be reforested without planting a single tree? Is it possible? Well yes, according to Tony Rinaudo and his work with World Vision in regenerating over 30,000 acres in West Africa all with the aid of just a simple pocket knife and a...

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Vertical Gardens
  • Techniques DIY
Jun17

Vertical Gardens

posted by Ecofilms

Making use of vertical wall space located in a sunny spot is a great way to grow your garden. In fact you don’t need pumps or complicated equipment to start growing your own vegetable garden. As long as you have a consistent amount of sunshine of around 6 hours per day and a collection...

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Edible School Gardens Instructional DVD
  • School Gardens
Apr25

Edible School Garden...

posted by Ecofilms

Coming out towards the end of May 2012 is a DVD title we’ve been working on for well over a year. Leonie Shanahan’s Edible School Gardens DVD follows the design, implementation and construction of a working school garden from start to finish. Author and Educator Leonie Shanahan...

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Seeing the Soul of the Soil
  • Permaculture
Nov03

Seeing the Soul of t...

posted by Ecofilms

Imagine for a moment that you could walk around your garden, your compost heap or even your pasture and get a direct reading that could tell you the health of your soil? Sounds implausible? Well, Mexican bio-fertiliser expert Eugenio Gras came to Australia recently to show farmers how to do...

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Monsanto versus the Beetle
  • Environment
Sep01

Monsanto versus the ...

posted by Ecofilms

This story is almost a parable of two worlds, a battle between the natural and the man-made. Like a boxing match, in the one corner we have Monsanto – a large company aided by big money and big investment, tinkering away in the science labs, discovering even more devious ways to develop...

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Creating Abundance in School Gardens
  • Permaculture
  • School Gardens
Aug26

Creating Abundance i...

posted by Ecofilms

Over the last few months we’ve been filming every few weeks with Leonie Shanahan the evolution of a school garden located in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Turning a drab bit of school grass into a permaculture paradise is all in a day’s work for Leonie because every Friday...

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Chicken Tunnels
  • Permaculture
  • Techniques DIY
Aug25

Chicken Tunnels

posted by Ecofilms

Although allowing your chickens to free-range a great idea, getting them to just stay on the grass and not destroy your garden is not an easy thing to do. They don’t seem to listen and wander about blissfully digging up your garden, making mounds in your vegetable patch, spraying dirt...

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Pigaerator Compost
  • Permaculture
Aug14

Pigaerator Compost

posted by Ecofilms

When’s the last time you bought a car or a piece of “farm machinery” that doubled and quadrupled in value as it got older? Imagine also if your “farm machinery” did all the work for you – for free? Joel Salatin from Polyface Farms does just that using his...

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How Not to Milk a Cow
  • Permaculture
  • Techniques DIY
Aug12

How Not to Milk a Co...

posted by Ecofilms

A year ago we filmed with Elisabeth Fekonia a fantastic little DVD on Home Cheesemaking and All things Dairy. What we didn’t show you on the DVD – is what happens when best intentions don’t necessarily go according to plan. Elisabeth was instructing the camera how to milk a...

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