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Permaculture Tip of the day – Hydrating a Suburban Food Forest With Swales

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April 30, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner is at the School of Permaculture’s suburban site, demonstrating properly designed swales in a back yard food forest. The suburban earthwork features have substantially hydrated the very dry and expanding clay subsoil (which could hardly be quenched years prior) to now hold water in basins even with just a few light rains. ~We […]

Permaculture Tip of the day – How to Talk About Permaculture

By nicholas
April 24, 2015
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How do you talk to people about permaculture? Very carefully. Just joking. Honestly though, talking with people about permaculture sometimes can be down right difficult to do. You just got immersed into a life changing paradigm shift and are super enthusiastic and then someone asks about it or what it is, you almost draw a […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – When to Clean a First Flush System

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April 21, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner explains why and when to flush your first flush system on your water harvesting tank. ~We greatly appreciate your shares and likes. If you found something useful, please share. What next? (click below) Take a Course Hire a Consultant Hire a Speaker Aid & Orphanage Donate Mailing List

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Bare Soil VS Covered Soil

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April 16, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner shows uncovered (bare) soil and a covered soil right at the beginning of spring to show the “weedy”

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Growing a Forest From a Forest – Part 2

By nicholas
April 13, 2015
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A forest grows on a fallen forest. If you have not watched the original part 1 video of “Growing a Forest From a Forest”, click here. Many permaculturist know the down right practical benefits of Hügelkultur. I have personally modified the technique into raised sheet mulched garden beds which I highly recommend for zone 1 gardens. […]

World Changer Interview Series – Nicholas Burtner Interviews Elaine Ingham

By nicholas
April 3, 2015
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The world’s leading soil scientist and creator of the Soil Food Web, Elaine Ingham, sits down to a fun and

How to Find Cardboard for Sheet Mulched Garden Beds

By nicholas
March 31, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner shows us a few specific places in the urban and suburban environments where we can find larger quantities

Permaculture Tip of the Day – How to Choose a Permaculture Educator

By nicholas
March 26, 2015
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Seriously, I recommend to all passionate and serious students of permaculture and regenerative sustainability to take, at minimum, two different permaculture design courses edified by two completely different educators at least 6 months to a year apart. There is just too much information to write down and remember in one course and the second course will mentally […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – People Care Part 1

By nicholas
March 24, 2015
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As I have written in the article “Permaculture’s Archilles’ Heel“, it is the people systems that are the number one reason why most permaculture systems fail. I would suppose the on site financial systems would be number two (a tip on invisible structures for setting up permaculture financial systems coming soon). We do not have much training […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – The Lamiacea ‘Mint’ Family

By nicholas
March 19, 2015
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In permaculture design, the mint family is especially important for many reasons. For one it is extremely hardy, existing generally in all climates, soil and sun conditions. Mints generally can run to cover an area. They are known for there stolons(underground or above ground herbaceous stems that root readily) which allow the plant to spread […]

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