We thought we’d give a plug to our good friends at Milkwood Permaculture and Regen Agriculture who have brought out to Australia some great innovative thinkers and farmers doing things outside the square – empowering people to independent action and making a success of their...

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...

                Mineralizing your farm soil is something many permaculturalists like to do frequently. Various minerals are mixed with a pollard and fed to the farm animals. The manure that the animals produce is gathered and returned to the garden once...

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...