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...

Recently when filming with Permaculture gardener Rosina Buckman, we asked her how she managed to grow her amazing vegetables in her raised bed gardens without importing a lot of expensive soil. These tanks were raised off the ground and faced a sunny spot right out at the front of her house....

Rosina Buckman’s front garden is right out on the suburban street. A number of corrugated colour-bond Zincalume planter beds dot her front garden. Rosina is keen on growing food in her raised beds. Lettuce and herbs spill out of her tanks as she exuberantly explains how she keeps the...

Watching again recently Rebecca Hosking’s excellent BBC documentary “A Farm For the Future” drew me back again to the one haunting image that stayed with me for many months after i watched this documentary last year. Is it just me, but why do i find this one image in the...

Using chickens to graze behind cows is a new way to improve soil fertility and pasture management. At the Permaculture Research Institute there’s a couple of neat looking chicken tractors standing in the center of the cow paddock. What exactly are they doing there? According to Geoff...

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...

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...

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...

"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