Sometimes you see something and you think “Wow! Thats a great idea.” We came across this very simple and easy to build greenhouse at Rosina Buckman’s backyard. Rosina has some terrific tips mentioned previously here and here. Most greenhouse designs are overly complicated...

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...

The notion of Victory Gardens sounds rather quaint these days and conjures up ideas of thrift and service for the war effort. Used throughout the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and other places, the Victory Garden was a symbol of pride that helped take pressure off the...

Siting your Chicken Coop in your backyard may be no big deal, but to place it at the highest point of your garden – well isn’t that usually reserved for your house as the premier spot? Not necessarily so if you talk with Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton. The Problem Recently...

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...

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...

"They operate and cooperate together, symbiotically. They both improve the soil in very special ways." said Geoff Lawton.

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!

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.