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damage on fruit skin is good for you

Lloyd Godman
A while back I heard a researcher talking on the ABC radio who had found that when fruit is damaged on a tree - say hail damage, some insects, rubbing  etc  - the tree will heal this damage causing a skin blemish but the fruit does not rot  on the tree -  We might see this on apricots, peaches, n...

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Get Your Food from a Firehose

Albert Bates
This week we asked Joey “Mr Tea” Thomas to come dose the Ecovillage Training Center with his eclectic brew of liquid compost. Mr Tea’s recipe is as good as any batch of Biodynamic Preps or EM (Effective Micro-organisms) you might already be using. It is inestimably superior to MiracleGrow...
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Of apples and earth apples...

Ute Bohnsack
Of apples and earth apples August is a happy month, a time of abundance at the tail-end of summer, the month that gives us the first apples and new potatoes. In Ireland, “spuds”, somewhat more eloquently termed ‘pommes de terres’ by the French, are a staple food of course but similarly apples...
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Support the New School Permaculture to go and teach in Haiti

Helder Valente
To support us please click HERE The New School Permaculture has been working on developing a new global movement of peace, inclusion love and regeneration....and we need your help because we want to have a bigger impact... After our past educational programs in the Andes in Peru and in the amazo...
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PDC Permaculture Design Course in Paradise - 6/15 Set - Canary islands - Spain

Helder Valente
To know more about it just click this link htt://sublimart.blogspot.com.es/2013/07/pdc-permaculture-design-course-helder.html Thank you and good luck
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Permaculture Everywhere!

Steve Whitman
I am long overdue to post something here and after seeing Geoff Lawton speak in Vermont last night I started feeling a bit guilty for not contributing here! Just an update on my work over the last year. Based in New hampshire, USA I am now teaching about three PDCs a year in our fine state. The i...
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Ecosítio Nova Terra

Ecosítio Nova Terra
O Ecosítio Nova Terra é o DNA - Desenho Natural e Artístico – de uma proposta de agrovida familiar sustentável, criada pelo casal de artistas educadores Julia Lucena e Juliano Riciardi, onde buscam envolver suas vidas em um projeto completo de Permacultura.
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Friends Of Nature

Friends Of Nature
We focus on preserving the environment by discouraging the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in farming. We help raise the economic condition of the poor people through sustainable agriculture. We help the country's development by working on education, health and other factors of dev...
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Eastern Light Project

Eastern Light Project
The Eastern Light Project is a community collective in Rockland County NY that is working to protect land in the area from unsustainable development by promoting permaculture and sustainable development.
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banana/pawpaw circle

Norman Joseph Smith
Hi all I moved here on Monday the 26th of August and took a few days to settle in. My brother has just been made redundant from his job and I've been waiting till he's had a bit of time to discuss his ideas for the property. Yesterday I mentioned the idea of a banana circle to use the greywater...

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Ubuntu Gardens

Ubuntu Gardens
Ubuntu Gardens is a nature-based workshop and retreat center for sustainability and healing arts education, a place for people to come together to discover and celebrate the sacred in all things! We are situated on a 200-acre organic forest farm and wilderness sanctuary located in the spectacular...
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Permaculture Design Course at Ubuntu Gardens

Karana Ellis
We are very honored to have as our lead instructor, Gabriel Howearth, world renowned botanist, landscape architect, master seedsman, and permaculture specialist. Co-instructing this course with Gabriel, we have Native American permaculture specialist, Jeanette Acosta. We will also have...

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Help Palestinian Students Attend Permaculture Design Course!

Murad J.R.ALkhufash
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/support-palestinian-students-to-attend-the-permaculture-design-course (PAYMENT CAN ALSO BE MADE THROUGH PRI ON THIS SITE--PLEASE INDICATE INDIEGOGO) Salam (Peace) from Palestine!  The Marda Permaculture Farm is a working farm and a demonstration site for per...

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The Channon School Pond Restoration Project

Erik Klockemann
The Channon School Pond Restoration Project Community Projects — by Erik Klockemann August 28, 2013   AKA the PRI Ambassador Program by Erik Klockemann and Aybike Zengin The Channon Public School is a stone’s throw from PRI Zaytuna Farm and we were invited to come out and see what could be...
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Working With Nature

Philip Campbell
click on the link below to view the website http://workingwithnature.org/index.html  
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where people and things are

Norman Joseph Smith
Hi All Diego is working in China for his Chilean wine company at the moment. Diego is working on getting legal status for our project as a not-for-profit charity. Sergio is working in outback Northern Territory, Australia 7 days a week to raise funds. I'm in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia...
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