Benefits of butter are many, and the bad image butter has had over the past decades is slowly starting to disappear. Butter is extremely good for you, it fights infections, is a great source of certain vitamins and has various other health benefits I will not go into here (just google "benefits o...

“What’s that smell?” asks Chris. “I don’t know. It’s really familiar. It smells like… cat food,” I reply. “It smells like shit,” he says.   It’s 2:30am. We’ve propped ourselves up in bed. It’s dark. The foul smell mingled with my dreams but now we’re both awake. The windows are open and beh...

If women knew diggers looked this good I think swales would pop up like weeds around the globe. Gee whiz. Beats a four-tonne excavator in my books– even if it had a swivel bucket. Chris woke up the other day and declared, “I think I can dig those swales by hand.” “Super,” I said, “go for it!” ...

When Chris and I first got together, he used to wake up to his socks, t-shirts and towels carefully draped over his DJ equipment, where I’d laid them during the night to cover any glowing or flashing lights. A somewhat sensitive sleeper, trying to sleep in a discotech wasn’t my idea of a restfu...

“Andrew, I need to talk to you about something,” I’ve sought out the new president of the Community Garden at Peregian Beach, Andrew Maitland, to ask an important yet delicate question. “Yes?” “It’s about slugs,” “Slugs?” “Yes, I have a lovely, bumper crop of slugs.”   “Ah!” He smiles, no...

"How does a tree make a mango? I’ve never thought about it like that before, but isn’t that crazy? A tree can make a mango!" "Yes, dear,” says Chris. We’re driving around the back streets of Cooroy, getting to know our new extended neighbourhood, and we just passed a grove of mango trees. "No ...

My private residence is my project. And possibly a life-long one at that... Actually, I doubt that'll be the case (I hope!). But seriously, my aim is to grow the best organic food I can to continue healing my digestive system, use smart design to leave a lighter footprint on the earth and con...

I am not a survivalist. Really I’m not. Despite growing up in a family that was so deeply concerned by nuclear threat in the 1980?s that we had pictures of mushroom clouds (framed) in my childhood lounge room, I refuse to concede that my family’s future may involve turning our farm ...

http://permaculture.org.au/2011/05/20/livinginpeace-project-karamea-new-zealand/

Hayes Valley Farm was decommissioned in June 2013. Hayes Valley Farm's mission is to serve as a community and agricultural hub encouraging San Francisco residents to connect with one another, grow their own food, and learn about sustainable ecological systems.

My fabulous home vegetable garden

I mentioned in my first Update that one of the reasons I had to move the Hordes of rabbits and chickens out into the country was that rabbit manure tends to accumulate and only so much of it can be turned into mulch and compost and fertiliser.  The same thing was to prove true out here. The chan...

My landlord had assured me I'd be able to lease the property for ten years, but then sold it to his son.  Aside from the fact that a lot of legal issues are still outstanding, I don't really want to discuss this anyway.  It's just unfortunate. But by ten weeks I had a much larger flock of poultr...

I think the summary said it all.  Because of the distance, and the need to feed and water all the animals, it wasn't possible to move only some of the animals, or leave important household goods at the opposite end of the journey...  In addition, of course, I couldn't even go ahead and build new...

http://www.findhorn.org/programmes/evt/

Since adult chickens attack baby chicks that are not theirs, I had to separate them into a new place. Unfortunately, the new place was not as secure as the old one, and "something" (probably Egyptian Mongoose, known here as Saca-rabos) maybe more than one, managed to catch them. The rooster's fea...

A one-month course held every year between mid February to mid March There is an increasing and urgent global need for viable, sustainable human settlements. Ecovillages provide environmental, social, economic and spiritual sustainability, and an enhanced quality of life for all. Ecovillage comm...

La estructura casi no recibe rayos del sol debido a que se encuentra bajo la sombra de un gran pino aún sin identificar, un Ficus disciplinado y una palmera Yatay. Aprovecharé ciertas zonas húmedas de su alrededor (sobre una de las medianeras) para ubicar las trampas de microorganismos eficientes...