In the Food Forest DVD, Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton takes you through his Kitchen garden where he introduces students to the concept of companion planting. Here the kitchen garden is deliberately designed with a riot of flowers and vegetables deliberately designed to confuse pests from...
Aquaponics Health: U...
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There is nothing worse in Aquaponics than to see your fish suddenly go belly up and die without any apparent reason. People sometimes remark that their perfectly good fish that were fine yesterday – suddenly looked sick and died this morning. They are left scratching their head –...
Taking the first ste...
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Speaking at the launch of her new DVD on Home Cheese-making, Elisabeth Fekonia stressed the need for people to take charge of what they eat and start growing their own food. Addressing a group of locals at the function room of the Cooroy Library she said that she recently had a blood test and...
What pump for Aquapo...
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Choosing the right pump for Aquaponics is a question often raised by new people interested in building their own system. For many it will be often their most expensive decision. The pumps main purpose is to lift water to a certain height. If we could harness a waterwheel on a stream to do...
Jade Perch – The Per...
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Hard to find outside of Australia, its described as the ideal beginners fish for Aquaponics. Why? Because it comes with a number of pluses that are hard to fault. Barcoo Grunter or Queensland Jade Perch is the ideal fish to get started in Aquaponics. It has a reputation for being a hardy fish...
BBC Documentary says...
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Aquaponics may not be the answer to large scale industrialised food production – but at the local level – on a community scale – to feed your family, its a step in the right direction.
Why I’d become...
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Here’s a great interview with Vandana Shiva one of the world’s most dynamic and provocative thinkers. A physicist, ecologist, and activist, she won the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. She directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy in New...
Peter Andrews on Wee...
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Peter Andrews the creator of Natural Sequence Farming talks to us about the role of weeds in a natural system. Sitting down on a stump with sprig of Patterson’s curse – a noxious weed – proudly tucked into his top pocket, Peter reckons the authorities have got it all wrong....
New Study proves Fre...
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Permaculture people have long advocated it. Free range farmers have recommended it. Now a new study seems to have proven it. According to recent research from the US Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences that has compared caged bird eggs against their free range cousins – has...
Growing Trout in a B...
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Following on from our recent post on Bathtub Aquaponics, Daniel from rural Melbourne posted these great photos of his DIY system on Murray Hallam’s Aquaponics Forum. Here Daniel has grouped his bathtubs into an array of six baths that drain into one return pipe that flows clean water...
How to Build a Worm ...
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A few years back we put this short video clip up on YouTube with Permaculture Schools Gardening expert Leonie Shanahan talking about her worm tower. Well the idea seems to have caught on as little colourful worm towers are now springing up everywhere in the Permaculture landscape. While...
How Floating Raft Aq...
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For a long time Floating Raft Aquaponics was shrouded in mystery as many people tried to penetrate its “inner secrets” of what it all meant. Terms like Swirl Filters and Particulate Filters were bandied around and it all looked terribly difficult to understand to the casual...
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