He looks like a rangy cowboy but its not a six gun in his hand that he carries, but a artist’s pad and a felt pen marker. In his mid 50’s and on a hot muggy Monday morning, Geoff Lawton and fifteen Permaculture interns stride into a suburban home located in Lismore, NSW. The owner...
Keeping Australian N...
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There are reported to be over 1600 varieties of bees in Australia but only 14 species are stingless. Australian stingless bees are a lot smaller and darker looking than your average sized honey bee. There’s one good advantage in being small, and that’s at being able to pollinate...
Deep Litter Chicken ...
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Trying to see Anne Wensley’s chicken coop is hard to spot at first. Thats because it doesn’t really look like a traditional chicken coop. Anne has a mass of vines and creepers covering her chicken run in her suburban backyard. A choko vine covered in...
40 Tons of Life in O...
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Good to see Sami Grover from Treehugger posting a story on Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Soils DVD. Its created quite a lot of interest and comments on Treehugger and YouTube as people start to realize the actual dynamic, volume, weight and bio-diversity of living life in a healthy top...
Growing Catfish on C...
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Nigeria is working hard to solve the problem of depleted fish stocks by creating urban fish farms. Babatunde Akiodie was finding work hard to find until he discovered how to grow fish on the roof top above his wife’s hairdressing salon. Using cheap concrete tanks and a well dug for...
The Man Who Stopped ...
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“Those who treated him as a madman in the beginning realise today that he is a genius” The Prime Minister of Yatenga, June 2008 “Yacouba single-handedly has had more impact on conservation than all the national and international researchers put together“…in this region tens of thousands...
Permaculture DVDs on...
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A couple of months ago we got an email from Todd Moody who wrote to us, “Earlier this year I began an endeavour to submit all released permaculture documentaries to IMDb.com (the Internet Movie Database). I later expanded that effort to include documentaries about other topics related...
A Couple of Rough Ty...
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It’s very rare to see Permaculture founder Bill Mollison on video these days and a frank interview with Geoff Lawton and Bill together is probably rarer still. Whilst we were at the Permaculture Convergence held in Cairns this year we stumbled upon Bill and Geoff having breakfast...
Joel Salatin in Aust...
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ABC Radio has an interesting interview with self styled “lunatic farmer” Joel Salatin who happens to also be in Australia courtesy of REGEN Agriculture talking about free-range farming in USA. Joel says food has become over-regulated by US food safety bureaucrats who are...
Permaculture Soils D...
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Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Soils DVD is now shipping. A special thanks go out to all the people that pre-ordered this disk through Permaculture.org.au and waited patiently for their DVD to arrive. Your DVDs are now in the mail and will arrive very shortly. We had a few issues with...
A Conference full of...
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Going to your first Permaculture Convergence can be a funny thing to experience. For a start as we were checking in at the resort where we were staying just outside Cairns my wife nudged me and quietly pointed out the number of grey haired old men with white beards hanging around the lobby....
Permaculture Soils D...
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Just came back from filming all the links to Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Soils DVD over the weekend. Its a wrap – finally – with all principal photography completed and now its just a matter of finishing off the edit. Squeezing it all down to 90 minutes will be difficult as...
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