With just over 1.33 Billion people in 2010, China is fast growing into a world super-power. Although traditional Chinese farmers practiced various forms of Permaculture  for thousands of years, a lot of that culture is fast disappearing as China modernizes its Economy. When it comes to...

Talk about food forests seem to be of growing interest this month as more people suddenly get excited about the possibilities of designing natural systems on their land that mimics how nature likes to build it’s forests. But with a slight twist. Adding a variety of fruit trees into the...

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...

The Urban Permaculture DVD is finally shipping directly from Geoff Lawton’s website www.permaculture.org.au One of the interesting segments on the DVD deals with a home swimming pool system that was converted to grow over 100 silver perch fingerlings. The owners insisted that they do...

If you’re a student of Permaculture and want to know how to implement Permaculure Design into your small Urban Garden then you should check out this DVD when it gets released in October. World Premiere in IPC10 Jordan Its been finished for some time now but we have held off publishing it...

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...

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 she...

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...

A couple of years ago whilst shooting the Food Forest DVD with Geoff Lawton he remarked how “only on edges do we get fertility” or words to that effect. At the time that phrase didn’t really make much sense to me but when you stop and think for a moment how nature creates...

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...

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...

It looks like a white camel with a fat hump on a pillar but in actual fact its a hot water system. Rocket Stove technology has been around for many years, dating back to ancient China as a method of central heating, but this rendered mud brick construction is used out in the field near the...