Tag: Permaculture
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Help Birds Survive the Winter by Skipping Yard Work This Fall
Forget manicuring your lawn this fall. Endangered birds need messy yards to survive the winter.
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Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Requires Only a Few Hours of Work Per Month
This man’s forest garden produces tons of food, while practically tending itself!
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How to Attract and Protect Native “Super Pollinator” Bees
One mason bee can pollinate as many blossoms as 100 honey bees!
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One-Acre Permaculture Garden Feeds 50 Families
One-acre garden provides fruit, veggies and eggs for 50 families with very little labor More and more people are learning growing food doesn’t have to be hard work. When you work with nature instead of against it, it does much of the work for you.
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7 SIMPLE steps for Transforming Dead Dirt into Living Soil
1. Stop tilling 2. Stop weeding 3. Stop fertilizing 4. Plant cover crops 5. Add compost 6. Add microbes 7. Add worms
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Stop the War on “Invasive” Plants, They Do More Good Than Harm
The counterproductive war on “invasive” plants is funded by herbicide companies. “Invasive” honeysuckle has quadrupled native bird populations, purple loosestrife cleans up polluted waterways, Japanese knotweed is a staple for native pollinators, and kudzu heals soil damaged by human development.
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How to Grow a “100-Year-Old” Forest in 10 Years
Engineer develops method for growing a food forest ten times faster than normal
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Where Have All the Fireflies Gone? And How to Bring Them Back
Fireflies have disappeared because of overly manicured American yards… all we have to do to bring them back is let them get a little messy.
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Farmer Triples Yield Simply By Mixing His Six Mono-Crops Together
The new diverse polyculture is more nutritious, pest-resistant and drought-tolerant.
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“No-Dig” Garden Bed Produces 20% More Veggies than Tilled Bed Next to It
Man grows 20% more veggies by doing WAY less work, proving tilling your garden beds is counterproductive