permaculture

Ducks, chickens and geese

Someone on FB asked about if ducks or chickens are easier....

How 8,000 Food Forests Grew Africa's Great Green Wall (www.youtube.com)

How I designed my permaculture food forest: A step by step guide (www.youtube.com)

A couple bought an abandoned farm in Portugal for $103,000 and turned it into an off-the-grid homestead where they're raising 2 small kids — see how they did it (www.businessinsider.com)

Irrigation water for Livestock?

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/3688630...

Alternative to phosphate fertilizer: Biochar basis controls plant response (phys.org)

TL;DR: New research shows that biochar made from phosphate-poor feedstock encourages much more symbiosis with mycorrhizal fungi, compared to biochar made from phosphate-rich feedstock, which encourages very little mycorrhizal symbiosis.

Bittercress - Remove or keep?

Hi all. I have quite a lot of hairy bittercress in my garden. I think it rode in on the compost I got this year. Ive been removing it from directly around my pea plants but in the open spaces of the garden where its really taken off, Ive surrendered and let it be....

Laundry to landscape greywater system perfect splitter

I am building a laundry to landscape greywater system. I have seen some people in some videos that are using T fittings as 50% splitter like in this image:...

Podcast Recommendations?

Does anyone have any good permaculture/permaculture adjacent podcasts that they would recommend? I’ve been listening to the Urban Forestry Radio podcast and am close to being caught up.

Farming the Woods: Mushroom Production in the Northeast | Steve Gabriel (www.youtube.com)

Steve Gabriel of Wellspring Forest Farm and co-author of “Farming the Woods” explains how to grow shiitake, oyster, lions mane, and stropharia (wine cap) mushrooms outdoors profitably....

Local Food for Rapid Transition (www.resilience.org)

What’s It Mean to Be Invasive? (www.resilience.org)

Have you heard of Kernza? I find it so fascinating (www.greenmatters.com)

Kernza is a newly-domesticated form of wheatgrass that was designed to be planted from a single seed and regrow on its own, year after year. This would make it unique amongst most other commercial or industrial crops, which are usually annual and need to be replanted every year. According to The Washington Post, annual crops...