Category: Urban

Permaculture Tip of the Day – Double The Yield

By nicholas
September 9, 2014
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When thinking about the placement of water loving plant species such as water chestnut and blueberries, it is beneficial to home them near the edge of a water feature such as a pond or grey water system. A whole day is usually given to the study of pattern in a permaculture design course. If we take a 1/4 […]

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Permaculture Tip of the Day – How to Plan and Develop a Permaculture Site

By nicholas
September 2, 2014
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What is often left out in much of permaculture teaching is the “how to install the design”. And not only what that entails, but steps in how to do it. It is most manageable when the design is implemented in stages and each stage should build upon the previous (an the electrical system works better and installs […]

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Permaculture Tip of the Day – The 4 Layers of a Pond

By nicholas
August 15, 2014
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When studying permaculture at any depth it is easy to be empowered with information such as every forest in the world has seven layers (learn more), or that prairies are layered too (learn more). Since design and order is not exclusive to land systems, we can see the order of life in every pond or aquatic system. The […]

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Moving Past Organic Food into Nutrient Density

By nicholas
August 13, 2014
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Written by Nicholas Burtner, published by permaculturenews.org Many farmers and growers are in massive amounts of debt. Many still want to go organic but the time and red tape needed to do so will deliver them into bankruptcy. I have outlined a few steps a farmer/grower can take to move around the red tape and speed […]

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