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Video Friday: The Aranya story: turning barren land into a food forest using permaculture

Padma and Narsanna Koppula have turned a barren piece of land in Telangana's Medak district into a food forest by engaging the community that lives around it. Here's their story

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Video Friday: Permaculture Transformation In 90 Days

The Story:

After local property owners retired, they decided that rather than sit in front of a TV and spend an average of 5 hours a week tending lawns and ornamental shrubs, they would do one of Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture PDC courses.

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Video Friday: PERMACULTURE / high-yield production in limited space / The raised bed

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Video showing the building of a composting raised bed in the south of France (hugelkultur raised bed or gardening mound) with retaining walls, wood at the bottom, RCW and mulch on top. Raised bed intended for growing vegetables in 2014. 12m² built in limited space…
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Garden Soil Amendments and How to Use Them

Here’s some information on the many possible amendments you can add to the soil in your organic garden, and how best to make use of them.

Manure

Fresh manure should not be placed on areas where crops are currently growing because it can actually burn the crops. The … Read the rest