Posts Tagged ‘permaculture’

The Unconventional Harvest: New Forest Farm

What exactly is permaculture? This lingering question led me to Viola, Wisconsin to stay with Mark Shepard, a permaculture expert.

What does it take to live sustainably in the US?

January 05, 2011 Author and blogger Jill Richardson recently returned from a trip to southern Mexico where she lived with the Zapatistas, by way of Schools for Chiapas, and learned about their food and agriculture. Reflecting upon the lives she saw living the in remote areas within the state of Chiapas got her to thinking, [...]

Growing and Caring for Potatoes (video)

In this Growing Fresh Food video, Oregon State University Master Gardener Jen Aron talks about how to grow and care for potatoes.

Brooklyn’s Backyard Chicken Keepers food curated

January 11, 2010 Liza de Guia, of Food Curated, shares a new video of two women who have decided to start raising backyard chickens in their urban neighborhood. Though there are some costs, the fresh eggs will offset them. Nothing like a really fresh egg! Go to Original Post…

Intro to Permaculture 3 – Topsoil

January 7, 2010 “1.9 billion tons of topsoil lost a year in US because of way we do annual agriculture.” This video from Midwest Permaculture is one of eighteen segments from their first webinar of the Foundations of Permaculture Webinar Series. Go to Original Source…