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Permaculture Tip of the Day – Fermentation & Glass Air Lock Bubbler

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January 27, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner is at the home of Nicole Rice who is the founder of the Natural Food Source food co-op in North Texas and the creator of the high quality Glass Fermentation Air Lock Bubbler. They go over nutrition and how this often over looked component is so important in permaculture. ~We greatly appreciate your shares […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Suburban Farming at Earth Dance Farms

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January 22, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner and Steven Kelley are in the heart of Ferguson Missouri just days after the protesting and riots at

Permaculture Tip of the Day – GMO Money

By nicholas
January 21, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner is in Arcola Illinois in the middle of a very large GMO farm talking on income streams from

Permaculture Tip of the Day – The Apiaceae / Umbel Family

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January 15, 2015
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The Apiaceae’s (often referred to as Umbels or the Umbel family) are a family of plants that have very intrinsic and pervasive characteristics to their name. The latin Apiaceae refers to their well-known trait as apiary plants. This means that they provide a sustained and important nectar source for bees and other pollinating insects. For […]

Permaculture Tip of the Day – How Not To Raise Cattle

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January 13, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner takes a tour of the Fair Oaks Dairy, one of the largest dairies in the United States, and

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Suburban Chicken System

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January 6, 2015
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Nicholas Burtner visits Andrew Millison’s homestead in Corvallis, OR, USA and encounters a very well thought out and space maximizing

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Living Roofs

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December 8, 2014
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Nicholas Burtner is in downtown Portland, Oregon at the Hawthorne Hostel where they have installed a magnificent living roof where

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Plant Families

By nicholas
December 3, 2014
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When designing a landscape and/or planting systems, we are often focused on what plant combinations, or ‘polycultures’, will function together as cohesive units. To understand what plants will function together, it can be overwhelming to look at specific plant species as there are thousands upon thousands! To make things easier, we can scale back and […]

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

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November 29, 2014
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Nicholas Burtner is in a small patch of whats left of an old growth forest in the Pacific Northwest of

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Deep Bedding Chicken System

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November 15, 2014
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Nicholas Burtner takes a group of permaculture design course students on a field trip to Atitlan Organics in Tzununa, Lake

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