With just over 1.33 Billion people in 2010, China is fast growing into a world super-power. Although traditional Chinese farmers practiced various forms of Permaculture  for thousands of years, a lot of that culture is fast disappearing as China modernizes its Economy. When it comes to...

The Urban Permaculture DVD is finally shipping directly from Geoff Lawton’s website www.permaculture.org.au One of the interesting segments on the DVD deals with a home swimming pool system that was converted to grow over 100 silver perch fingerlings. The owners insisted that they do...

If you’re a student of Permaculture and want to know how to implement Permaculure Design into your small Urban Garden then you should check out this DVD when it gets released in October. World Premiere in IPC10 Jordan Its been finished for some time now but we have held off publishing it...

A couple of years ago whilst shooting the Food Forest DVD with Geoff Lawton he remarked how “only on edges do we get fertility” or words to that effect. At the time that phrase didn’t really make much sense to me but when you stop and think for a moment how nature creates...

They say nine out of ten people that ultimately get ducks into their gardens first started off with chickens. So what are the advantages of keeping ducks? The popular perception or myth is that ducks need a large expanse of water; they make a lot of mess; destroy your garden and their eggs are...

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...

Ecofilms will be in Sydney this weekend and early next week filming Murray Hallam’s Sydney Aquaponics workshop next Sunday at the Casula Powerhouse in Liverpool. Murray as also agreed to appear at Permaculture North monthly meeting along with Geoff Lawton and Ecofilm’s Frank...

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...

He looks like a rangy cowboy but its not a six gun in his hand that he carries, but a artist’s pad and a felt pen marker. In his mid 50′s and on a hot muggy Monday morning, Geoff Lawton and fifteen Permaculture interns stride into a suburban home located in Lismore, NSW. The owner...

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...