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Home » Posts Tagged "Permaculture"
Building an Urban Greywater Reedbed
  • Permaculture
  • Techniques DIY
  • Urban Permaculture
  • Water Harvesting
May05

Building an Urban Gr...

posted by Ecofilms

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...

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Costa gets a Permaculture Logie Award
  • Permaculture
May02

Costa gets a Permacu...

posted by Ecofilms

Colourful TV personality Costa Georgiadis told a packed audience yesterday how he was asked by the TV Network to attend the annual television Logie awards – but he knocked back the special occasion because of his prior engagement with Permaculture. You see, Costa had promised Leonie...

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National Permaculture Day
  • Permaculture
Apr30

National Permacultur...

posted by Ecofilms

  It’s National Permaculture Day on May 1, 2011. Apart from being a system of growing fresh food all year round, the rise of permaculture is also knitting communities together who help each other establish productive gardens and share knowledge, information and friendship. Here at...

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Converting a Swimming Pool to Grow Fish
  • Aquaponics
  • System Designs
  • Techniques DIY
Apr25

Converting a Swimmin...

posted by Ecofilms

One of the advantages of doing aquaponics is that it gives you the knowledge of how a natural system works. For Les and Annette Mulder it was only a natural progression to apply their knowledge of fish farming to their 55,000 liter chlorinated swimming pool located in Sydney. Les switched off...

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Insulated Strawbale Chicken House
  • Permaculture
  • Techniques DIY
  • Urban Permaculture
Apr22

Insulated Strawbale ...

posted by Ecofilms

Keeping chickens in an Urban environment is something a lot of people would like to have, but when it comes to roosters – people baulk at the idea knowing their neighbors wont like it. After all, who can blame them when they’re trying to get some sleep? Roosters are known to crow...

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Urban Permaculture DVD
  • Aquaponics
  • Permaculture
  • Urban Permaculture
Apr21

Urban Permaculture D...

posted by Ecofilms

Filming various homes in Sydney for the Urban Permaculture DVD with Geoff Lawton reveals just what a wealth of Permaculture innovation there truly is. We really need to praise Penny Pyett from Permaculture North for organizing some very special show gardens for us to visit this week. Penny...

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Ecofilms in Sydney
  • Aquaponics
  • Permaculture
Apr13

Ecofilms in Sydney

posted by Ecofilms

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...

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Building a Herb Spiral
  • Permaculture
  • Techniques DIY
  • Urban Permaculture
Apr10

Building a Herb Spir...

posted by Ecofilms

Watching a spiral herb garden being constructed is a fascinating thing. Having 50 school kids building it all at once can descend into mayhem, but fortunately Permaculture teacher Leonie Shanahan was able to keep the whole process on track with a certain degree of military precision. After...

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Growing Food in a Mulch Pit
  • Permaculture
  • Techniques DIY
Apr02

Growing Food in a Mu...

posted by Ecofilms

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...

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Victory Garden Chicken System
  • Permaculture
  • Techniques DIY
  • Urban Permaculture
Mar26

Victory Garden Chick...

posted by Ecofilms

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...

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The Chicken Tunnel Man
  • Permaculture
  • Techniques DIY
Mar13

The Chicken Tunnel M...

posted by Ecofilms

While filming a segment on backyard chickens, we came across a novel approach to improving your garden beds when we visited the garden of Bruce Morgan in Nambour, Queensland. Bruce has been doing Permaculture now for many years and has even taught the “pros” a thing or two over...

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School Gardens – Tidy or Rampant?
  • Permaculture
  • School Gardens
Mar11

School Gardens ̵...

posted by Ecofilms

For most school principals its a daunting task to allow a Permaculture Garden Designer into the school yard – let alone let them redesign the school backyard along with the crazy ideas of Primary School kids calling the shots and taking an active role in the design process! Schools need...

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