Just came back from filming all the links to Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Soils DVD over the weekend. Its a wrap – finally – with all principal photography completed and now its just a matter of finishing off the edit. Squeezing it all down to 90 minutes will be difficult as...
A Permaculture Persp...
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Weeds are one of the most despised plants on the planet. People go to many lengths to eradicate weeds from the garden. Judging by the number of herbicides you can buy – its obviously a great money spinner for the chemical companies. But if you speak with Geoff Lawton a Permaculture...
Bathtub Gardening
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While filming with Tania Coppel about her story on compost toilets we spotted this ring of bathtubs all under wire netting. They reminded me of a ring of wagon trains circling round like in a cowboy Western movie protected by a wire netting to stop the possums for eating the produce. The only...
How does Aquaponics ...
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Although we do produce both Permaculture and Aquaponics videos we were asked recently to compare the two methods and which one we preferred using ourselves – in our garden? Notice the caveat – in our garden! Its a difficult question to answer as each method has its strengths and...
Building a Worm Farm...
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Building a cheap but effective worm farm in a bathtub is a great idea if you also have an aquaponics system or a vegetable garden close by. The fish can always benefit from a tasty snack of live worms. But if you only want to get rid of your household kitchen scraps, a bathtub worm farm is...
Why I’d become...
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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...
How to Build a Worm ...
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A few years back we put this short video clip up on YouTube with Permaculture Schools Gardening expert Leonie Shanahan talking about her worm tower. Well the idea seems to have caught on as little colourful worm towers are now springing up everywhere in the Permaculture landscape. While...
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