Permaculture people have long advocated it. Free range farmers have recommended it. Now a new study seems to have proven it. According to recent research from the US Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences that has compared caged bird eggs against their free range cousins – has...
How I fell in love w...
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Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie’s honeymoon he’s enjoyed since discovering an outrageously...
Solar Cookers
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While we were shooting the Permaculture Soils video with Geoff Lawton, we noticed an array of shiny solar cookers being assembled on the jetty at Zaytuna Farm. Barb Ford from Brisbane was cooking the afternoon lunch for the woofers and students on the farm. Taking a break from our filming, we...
Make Your Own Biogas...
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If you thought making your own biogas for cooking was rocket science stuff and you needed a laboratory of technical wizardry to do it yourself then this guide will show you how easy it is to make your own Biogas plant. A family of four can be quite self sufficient when it comes to cooking an...
Solar Panel Energy C...
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We recently installed a 1 KW solar panel array above our office here at Ecofilms. I must admit we didn’t give it too much thought until the installers arrived with the solar panels. Feeding back to the grid is one thing but having a inverter box bolted to the wall of the office with...
Are Eucalypts Weeds?
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For many years they’ve been seen as a symbol of pride in Australia. Expatriate writers in the 50’s and 60’s would write about returning to Sydney by ship and about being greeted by the smell of wafting gum tree leaves as they waxed lyrical about the nostalgia they felt...
Peter Andrews at Mul...
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Its not often that you get to meet a living legend everyday and lets face it, the term is bandied around for all sorts of people, sportsmen and even celebrities – all the time. But Peter Andrews is different. Here is a guy not afraid to speak his mind and more importantly – back...
The Man of a Thousan...
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Planting trees in heavily compacted soil is not easy as Matt will tell you, but it can be done if you follow some basic tips.
Rehydrating the Land...
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Here’s the first 10 minutes under the working title of “Rehydrating the Landscape” it will look at the work of Peter Andrews and Geoff Lawton.
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