Deep Green Permaculture

The latest addition is something any gardening site shouldn’t be without – a gardening calendar!

Well, to be precise, 12 gardening calendars… One for each month to make your gardening life easier, with the following information:

1. a month by month rundown of all those pressing chores that need to be done
2. a comprehensive “sow what when” monthly seed planting guide

Note: these calendars are for Australian temperate climates.

This includes most of southern coastal Australia from Melbourne and  Adelaide through to Perth, the coastal region south of Sydney, the New South Wales tablelands and inland Queensland.

You can view your gardening calendars here

Happy Gardening!
 
 
 
 

Geoff Lawton has just released his latest free Permaculture Design video, “Urban Permaculture: The Micro Space“, which features me and my garden”!

Here’s Geoff’s description of his latest free offering:

Nothing beats the productive capacity of the small Urban Permaculture backyard.

It’s more productive per square foot than conventional agriculture. It’s into theses small spaces, that the most changes are being made.

Angelo, was a student of mine who took these Permaculture ideas and changed the way he now grows food.

Angelo has transformed his tiny 650 square foot garden into a Permaculture wonderland full of diversity and abundance.

You won’t believe how much food he gets out of his small space:

We also look at mini swales. People are installing them into their gardens.

You can view this video here:

http://www.geofflawton.net/urban/?10033

Just in case anybody missed the previous free releases, you can find them at:

http://www.geofflawton.net/property/?10033

Enjoy!

Geoff Lawton has releases another free Permaculture Design video, and another edition of the free magazine “Permaculture Designer“!

Here’s Geoff’s description of his latest free offerings:

Geoff here again.

When the USA Army Core of Engineers wanted to re-design the 15,000 acre Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant into an eco-industrial park, they asked me to help.

 When AECOM, a fortune 500 Civil Engineering company that turns over 8 Billion a year wanted to do a sustainable design for the 18 Billion Dollar Masdar City in Dubai, they again called on me to consult for them.

Permaculture Design principles work on large scale projects, large rural farms, small rural acreage, urban areas and even city balconies.

Many of you have been asking us to show you what you can do on a smaller rural property. So we’ve held off launching the next video on Urban until next week and have put together a special new video on what can be done in a smaller rural property.

I too was once like many of you are now and taking my first steps on a smaller rural property.

My brand new free video “5 Acre Abundance on a Budget” where I show you how I turned a 5 acre cow paddock into a Permaculture Paradise on a tight budget is now LIVE and ready for you to view.

You can view this video and the magazine here: http://www.geofflawton.net/5acres/?10033

Just in case anybody missed the previous free releases, you can find them at: http://www.geofflawton.net/property/?10033

Enjoy!

Exciting news I’d like to share about a free series of Permaculture Design videos by Geoff Lawton, world renowned Permaculture designer, teacher and consultant reveals how to not only survive the coming crisis with Permaculture Design but how to build abundance on your land. How to have all the water you will ever need. How to have all the fish you will ever want. How to have  your own food forest and grow all your own food. Where to start. How to understand your land. How to work with it . How to design it, Naturally. Abundance is no accident.

You can see the free videos at:
http://www.geofflawton.net/property/?10033
(Just enter your email into the website and Geoff Lawton will keep you updated as he releases future videos in the series. There’s also a ‘Permaculture Designer – Property Purchase Checklist’ in PDF format to download free on this page too).

Also, please feel free to check out the trailer for Geoff Lawton’s video series:

Enjoy!

• Added a new subject topic on Permaculture Design Principles, where each principle will be explored in detail with practical applications of each design principle, as well as design tips. The introductoy main article, Permaculture Design Principles, provides a brief overview and list the principles themselves.

The eleventh and final article in this series discusses the design principle of Attitudinal Principles, this is the only person-based design principle that looks at us as designers, it’s bound to hold a few surprises for most readers!

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• Added a new subject topic on Permaculture Design Principles, where each principle will be explored in detail with practical applications of each design principle, as well as design tips. The introductoy main article, Permaculture Design Principles, provides a brief overview and list the principles themselves.

The tenth article in this series discusses the design principle of Edge Effect, it looks at the the ecological phenomenon of increased diversity and productivity at ecosystem boundaries and discusses how to emulate this in permaculture designs to increase yields and productivity.

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• Added new page 29. Full Circle, Four Years In under “My Garden“, detailing how far it has come in it’s fourth year, how much it produced, and what it actually produced, including full annual harvest yield statistics and breakdown…

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In Articles and Discussions I’ve listed a new article which I have written for Permaculture Research Institute, Food Forests and Natural Pest Control – Observations (link direct to PRI website) – an article about my observations of the effectiveness of natural pest controls in a food forest garden over a four year period in comparison to two hydroponic systems which I utilised as my experimental controls.

• Added a new subject topic on Permaculture Design Principles, where each principle will be explored in detail with practical applications of each design principle, as well as design tips. The introductoy main article, Permaculture Design Principles, provides a brief overview and list the principles themselves.

The ninth article in this series discusses the design principle of Diversity, it explores polycultures and how to design with a diversity of beneficial species for a productive, interactive system.

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• Added new page Propagating Hardwood Cuttings under “DIY Instructions“, which explains how to propagate deciduous trees and plants from winter prunings – great for fruit trees such as figs, pomegranates, mulberries and quince, grape vines, kiwi fruit and currants!

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• Added a new post under My Garden  which provides some updates and pictures of what’s been happening in the last six months or more, it’s been a while since I’ve posted an update on the garden, see the article here – 28. The Last Six Months or So….
  I’ve also made many major additions and updates to the design, the biggest beibg addind dozens if types of berries. The design changes, rationale and outcomes will be in the next post, real soon!

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• Added a new subject topic on Permaculture Design Principles, where each principle will be explored in detail with practical applications of each design principle, as well as design tips. The introductoy main article, Permaculture Design Principles, provides a brief overview and list the principles themselves.

The eighth article in this series discusses the design principle of Accelerating Succession and Evolution, it explores how Nature establishes forests through the ecological process of forest succession, and how we can accelerate this process through various techniques to establish forest systems in a fraction of the time they take naturally. Also, it looks into how we can substitute the species that build a forest with ones that are useful to us, such as in food forst designs.

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In Articles and Discussions I’ve listed a new article which I have written for Permaculture Research Institute, Perennial Plants and Permaculture (link direct to PRI website) – an article I wrote for Permaculture Research Institute, which examines the reasons for using perennial plants in Permaculture food production systems, and the ecological benefits gained by doing this, which is contrasted against the impact of annual food production systems on soils in terms of salinity and erosion.

• Added a new subject topic on Permaculture Design Principles, where each principle will be explored in detail with practical applications of each design principle, as well as design tips. The introductoy main article, Permaculture Design Principles, provides a brief overview and list the principles themselves.

The seventh article in this series discusses the design principle of Small Scale Intensive Systems and explores how these highly energy efficient, sustainable systems differ from other conventional systems, what makes them unique, and the principles that we can use to design and construct them.

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In Articles and Discussions I’ve listed a new article which I have written for Permaculture Research Institute, Food Forests and Earth Stewardship (link direct to PRI website) – an article I wrote for Permaculture Research Institute, which examine humanity’s relationship to Nature, how it has changed over time, how we can reclaim our unique ecological niche through Permaculture and food forests, and the benefits gained from reclaiming our rightful place as stewards of the Nature.

• Added a new subject topic on Permaculture Design Principles, where each principle will be explored in detail with practical applications of each design principle, as well as design tips. The introductoy main article, Permaculture Design Principles, provides a brief overview and list the principles themselves.

The sixth article in this series discusses the design principle of Energy Cycling with many practical examples which illustrate how it all works in a real-life design.

The article discusses how we can implement energy cycling systems to capture, store and use energy in our Permaculture designs.

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• Added a new subject topic on Permaculture Design Principles, where each principle will be explored in detail with practical applications of each design principle, as well as design tips. The introductoy main article, Permaculture Design Principles, provides a brief overview and list the principles themselves.

The fifth article in this series discusses the design principle of Using Biological Resources with many practical examples which illustrate how it all works in a real-life design.

The article shows how we can use biological resources in place of systems dependent on non-renewable resources to create much more energy efficient Permaculture designs.

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• Added a new subject topic on Permaculture Design Principles, where each principle will be explored in detail with practical applications of each design principle, as well as design tips.
  The introductoy main article, Permaculture Design Principles, provides a brief overview and list the principles themselves.

The fourth article in this series discusses the design principle of Zones and Sectors – Efficient Energy Planning with many practical examples which illustrate how it all works in a real-life design.

The article covers the functions of Zones, Sectors and Slope in Permaculture design.

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• Added new page 27. Full Circle, Three Years In under “My Garden“, detailing how far it has come in it’s third year, how much it produced, and what it actually produced, including full annual harvest yield statistics and breakdown…

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I’ve added more photos of my garden with some commentary for early and mid spring:

• 25. Early Spring – Sep 2011 Pictures
• 26. Spring – Oct 2011 Pictures

These photos show how a food forest looks approaching it’s full glory, so there’s a lot of pictures in the second installment so you can see a lot of it!

Mind you, it even looks way better seeing it first-hand, in person!

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