Talk about food forests seem to be of growing interest this month as more people suddenly get excited about the possibilities of designing natural systems on their land that mimics how nature likes to build it’s forests. But with a slight twist. Adding a variety of fruit trees into the...

Most people when siting their house want to take advantage of the available commanding views. So you commonly see people positioning their homes on the highest point on their land. But that’s not necessarily the best place to site your home if you are into Permaculture and your aim is...

The idea of growing food in a mulch pit is something we came across whilst filming Geoff Lawton’s Introduction to Permaculture Design DVD. Geoff was climbing over what looked like a mountain of trash. Cardboard boxes, newspaper, old clothes and tree prunings. The mulch pit stretched...

One of the extras on Geoff Lawton’s Establishing a Food Forest DVD features him touring a  300 Year old forest system located in Vietnam. This system had stayed in the family for countless generations. Since we put this little clip up on YouTube its always been well viewed, but on New...

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...

Walking through a Food Forest can be bewildering experience at first as you try to understand all the design features inherent in Nature. The canopy and diversity of the forest in its complexity can be hard to comprehend at first. Geoff Lawton once remarked that he felt many of his...

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...

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...

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...

"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.

Ten years after Permaculture guru Geoff Lawton’s attempt at greening a small part of the desert in the Middle East,  is a new video currently being produced by Craig Mackintosh called “Greening the Desert II.”  Geoff and Craig are currently in Jordan filming and documenting...

Whilst we were filming the Food Forest DVD with Geoff Lawton he mentioned to us casually that he had a number of slides he'd taken many years ago of a Food Forest system he discovered was 2,000 years old. He discovered this system when he was a young man surfing in Morocco but walking through such a majestic system as this one, haunted him for many years as he thought about its potential.