Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton scrambles through a clump of reeds perched over a some large boulders and gingerly steps over a pond choked with Duckweed and Salvinia floating on the surface. You can hear the frogs croaking in the background. Birds are singing in the trees. He peels back a...

Imagine a world where we lost all our seeds? it’s been estimated that each year 1–2% of crop diversity is lost and more than 75% of genetically diverse crops present at the beginning of the 20th century are now gone. Here’s an interesting talk presented by Jonathan Drori who...

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...

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...

When filming Geoff Lawton’s “Food Forest” DVD we went to film a forest system that had been abandoned for about 10 years at Tagari in Northern NSW Australia. Originally designed by Permaculture founder Bill Mollison, Tagari was a transformed dairy farm that under Geoff...

Normally you wouldn't bat a eye if you saw this in your garden, but in this case we needed to have these shots of bugs and have them as big close-ups in all their High Definition glory!

"Everybody talks about organic farming, but nobody would do anything about it." says Nomad. The politicians wont do anything. Neither would the farmers. Nomad decided to lead by example. He would try it himself.