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...

Building a mandala garden is a great way to break up your garden beds into a riot of living colour, allowing easy accessibility and visual interest. It looks great too. Whilst Filming at the Yandina Community garden with Geoff Lawton we came across this very easy to build mandala garden bed...

"Getting healthy bacteria into your gut flora to enhance your immune system." she says. "Making one's own fresh yoghurt with culture and kefired milk is essential in your family's diet. It will boost your health and vitality."

This duck water is high in nutrient and is usually thrown away. Rather than throw the water out, Geoff connected the spa to a tap in the kitchen garden to drain off any nutrients. Hooking up a garden hose or watering can and you have a terrific nutrients and additives that the ducks produce to give your vegetables a boost.

"As soon as we get the compost made, we add moisture to it." says Geoff Lawton, "We get heat within one day. Within two or three days we've got constant hot water for six to eight we

While we were shooting the Permaculture Soils video with Geoff Lawton, we noticed an array of shiny solar cookers being assembled on the jetty at Zaytuna Farm. Barb Ford from Brisbane was cooking the afternoon lunch for the woofers and students on the farm. Taking a break from our filming, we...

If you watched Geoff Lawton’s DVD “Introduction to Permaculture Design” you would have seen Geoff take you on a tour of a typical Permaculture Garden as he wandered through a number of circular corrugated iron garden beds. We spoke with the owner of the property, Elisabeth...

The Introduction to Permaculture Design DVD has finally been pressed and printed and will be dispatched to all pre-orders from Zaytuna Farm (base camp for PRI headquarters here in Australia) on Wednesday September 30. We said we’d do a September release and we meant it, and even made it –...