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Commenced:	01/01/2007
Submitted:	13/05/2011
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	North Island, NZ
Website:	http://www.piginthemud.com
Climate zone:	Warm Temperate

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The Permaculture Practitioner

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Urban, Rural, Demonstration, Educational

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The story of an Orchard development, this journal series is a collection of notes and discoveries based on my own practical experience in Permaculture.

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Pig in the Mud Permaculture

In this journal series I have chosen to focus on a small number of design elements, practical techniques and sustainable practices that play a significant role in my own designs and could play a role in your own.

It is my humble opinion that these design aspects are of such high individual value to permaculture practitioners, and anyone interested in food production for that matter, that they warrant particular attention.

The journals should appeal to a broad audience, from the novice up, interested in healthy and sustainable food production in your own back yard and orchard. They provide a stepping stone, so to speak, to sustainable growing, through a number of practical experiences on a number of design elements, techniques and systems that can be employed for little or no cost and no power

?The journal entries, six are available at this time, can be downloaded from http://www.piginthemud.com. I hope they can be of some value to you. And if you think they can be of value to others please pass the word on.

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