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Water harvesting on sandy soils

Andrew Paul
I have very sandy soil on my site, so run-off is rarely a problem. Excessive soil drainage is. I am increasing the organic content of my soils, but several days of no rain still means drought in my garden/fruit plantings.  Does anyone have advice for increasing water holding capacity in water ha...
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Autumn resources - hauling vs hoarding

Mari Korhonen
It's been interesting to observe the autumn traffic of organic materials, especially dead leaves, fallen and pruned branches, withering flowers and anything else that's not lawn being removed from peoples front and back yards for dumping elsewhere. Well, where I live everyone takes these material...
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Many minds are better than one

Shariyf Abdul Qabid
Many people have tried and tested ideas; therefore, I'm asking that you share them with me. 

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Volunteering

Zeljko Serdar
At Project ENERGY EFFICIENCY COALITION and CROATIAN CENTER of RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES, we believe that giving turns ordinary money into change, a change for the better. That's why we ask each of our CCRES partner to think about what they can do in their community to give. Whether it's volunt...

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German mound

Max Vittrup Jensen
What to do with the old branches?  Well, Eenie-Bob who's been helping out for a month had an idea... First he dug a bit of a hole at the end of one of our 1 plow furrow/small sloped svale...   Then he stuffed in a bunch of branches which we had pruned from the orchard during spring... Then a ...
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Permaculture Hunter Inc.

Permaculture Hunter Inc.
Permaculture Hunter Region is a dynamic, not-for profit permaculture association that meets monthly in Newcastle, develops community food projects and garden Blitzes, issues a quarterly newsletter, has a Farmers' Market stall each month, holds events and teaches Permaculture.
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Permaculture Design Course October 26 to November 8th 2011

Cathe' Fish
October 26 - November 8, 2011 with Robyn Francis & Cathe’ Fish (and a team of passionate and knowledgeable instructors) At allsgood farm, a 20 acre farm in Penn Valley, CA Learn how to design for stability, resilience, and abundance at a farm that is dedicated to permaculture. Gain...

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The Cove Community Garden

The Cove Community Garden
The impetus for The Cove Community Garden arose in 2010 from a group of like minded people who recognised the need for a space where members of the community could come together to learn, participate and grow as a community in a shared garden environment.
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Katlaaed

Katlaaed
A city community garden project that follows the principles of permaculture.
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Tierra Circular

Tierra Circular
Beatiful Natural Construcción - junior Forest Garden
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Slow Life Symposium hosted by Soneva Fushi

Mark Garrett
Slow Life Symposium hosted by Soneva Fushi Over the next week Soneva Fushi will host an amazing symposium that impacts on all of us, Climate change , sustainable tourism and renewable energy systems. The site will be updated daily.I have already had the pleasure of showing John Hardy founder of...
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Purple Thistle Community Food Forest

Purple Thistle Community Food Forest
A youth-led community bioremediation, reclamation, education, and food sovereignty project on unceded Coast Salish territory.
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Modernism & Disconnection from Life

Øyvind Holmstad
Norway is said to be a social democratic country, which means a 50 – 50 percent mixture of socialism and capitalism. The catch is that in the end there is no difference between these two ideologies. It is like mixing water with water — no matter how well you blend them, or in what ratio, the fini...
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Resilience Now

Resilience Now
Resilience Now is an initiative to build resilience within fragile communities using the principles and practices of permaculture. It provides expertise and support to communities in need and the agencies that help them.
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Aquaponics Project

Chief Phillip 'Cloudpiler' Landis
We have set up a 20 X 60 foot hoophouse at Nemenhah Model Permavillage and plan to use Aquaponics Modules as central thermal mass to help maintain the growing environment.  Down the center of the Hoophouse, we've set up a row of twelve Barrelponic Units are set up with ten Tilapia Honorum/Mozam...
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South West Food Sovereignty Day

Nicole Vosper
This means organisers, growers, transitioners and anyone who is concerned about our food system Somerset, Bristol and the South West is invited to Tor Leisure on SATURDAY 15TH OCTOBER from 10am till 4.30pm. Please note we now also have Graciela Romero, International Director of War on ...
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