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Created 08/04/18

Permaculture Explained (Vol III Issue 6): Produce no waste

"Waste as an unused resource"

by Jo Barker

With this issue’s principle Produce no Waste, it brings to mind one of my favourite Mollison principles 'waste (pollution) = unused resource'. This can be turned around to make an unused resource = waste (pollution).

Created 08/04/18

Permaculture Explained (Vol III Issue 5): Use and value renewable resources and services

"Let nature take its course"

Permaculture design aims to make best use of renewable resources to create, manage and maintain high yielding systems, even if some non-renewable resources are needed to establish the system in the first place. Klaudia van Gool from LAND Learning Centre Trevecca Home Garden gives her viewpoint:

Created 08/04/18

Permaculture Explained (Vol III Issue 3): Obtain a yield

"You can't work on an empty stomach"

This principle is like an order. Make sure that every time you design a house, garden, park, or school, it includes elements that will provide real tangible yields, whether they are food, fibres, timber, fuel, education, or enjoyment. Wade Muggleton from the Station Road Permaculture Garden, tells us more.

Created 04/04/18

Permaculture Explained (Vol III Issue 2): Catch and store energy

This principle deals with the capture and storage of energy within the environment, buildings and even society. If you think about a bank account, this principle is about how we can make our capital bigger, rather than how we spend the interest.

Created 03/04/18

Introducing Netherton Farm

Welcome to my first blog entry. Over this series I hope to outline what we are planning to do and what we actually do. Equally important will be what we try to do that becomes a learning experience.

Created 26/03/18

Insects are disappearing. Why should we care? What can be done?

by Ryan Sandford-Blackburn

Insects are disappearing. Remember how in the '90s when you went for a drive down a country lane on a summer evening, you'd end up with hundreds of splatters on the windscreen? No more does that happen. Your car is no longer like a 1 ton moth collecting sheet. That's not to draw a parallel between vehicles and insect roadkill, although hold that thought.

Created 16/03/18

Could community activism replace charity in our society?

Tackling Social Inequality: Charity and Co-operation?

“We cannot force up the wages of labour, or force down the prices of provisions, without disorganising society” – Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1846

Created 15/03/18

New NO DIG market garden for Manchester!

by Tomas Remiarz

Created 14/03/18

Key questions for restoring degraded ecosystems (journal)

One hundred priority questions for landscape restoration in Europe
Free open access until 3rd May 2018

Scientists and researchers outline the key questions that we need to answer to ensure restoration of marine and terrestrial landscapes in Europe is as effective as possible.
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Created 13/03/18

Choose a Bank that Supports Permaculture

Supporting the
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