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Created 06/01/19

Lackan Cottage Farm design feature

Lackan Cottage Farm is a six acre permaculture demonstration site in the heart of the County Down countryside.

Avoiding excess this festive season

by Chris Warburton Brown

This article focuses on Christmas but of course many people don’t celebrate this festival. You can apply the same thinking to your big annual festival, be it New Year, Diwali, Eid, Solstice, Vaisakhi, Hannukah, Thanksgiving or another festival.

Preserving Produce - a permaculture design poem

by Helen White

I grow a lot of soft fruit and I’ve always made some jam
To eat myself, but mostly to give friends, that’s who I am

And so I thought I’d make a plan of how to do lots more
To learn new skills and use more food from hedgerows and woodland floor

Biochar benefits poor soils (#journal)

Biochar amendment improves crop production in problem soils: A review
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Created 27/11/18

US goverment predicts climate crisis (online)

New federal climate assessment for U.S. released A new federal report finds that climate change is affecting the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, and human health and welfare across the U.S. and its territories.
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Gardener tending salads at the Comfrey Project in Gateshead

Created 27/11/18

Gardens of Sanctuary resources launched

Social Farms & Gardens (SF&G), City of Sanctuary and the Permaculture Association came together on November 17 at Stepney City Farm to launch a new collection of resources aimed at helping the UK’s community growing spaces welcome sanctuary seekers.

The resource pack, report and series of case studies are designed to support the creation o
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Created 21/11/18

5 PhDs at Utrecht in permaculture (online)

5 PhD positions at Utrecht Uni with a focus on radical grassroots innovation in sustainable agriculture (Permaculture & CSA) and a notion of unmaking capitalism.

Utrecht University has opened five new positions for PhD candidates in the field of Transformation to Sustainability, with a focus on radical grassroots innovations in agriculture.
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