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Composting at home is a good way to recycle daily wastes into valuable fertilizer, whilst minimizing environmental impact.  However, composting can be a headache and takes a long time if you’r...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2022/06/06/how-to-compost-efficiently-at-home/

The joy of seeing a home garden thrive is akin to seeing a child grow in the way we desire. Parents know how hard it is to raise discipline in young minds. Similarly, farmers have experienced a p...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2020/02/04/how-to-make-compost/

It was a beautiful crisp misty morning in the Channon as the team from Compost Central who have developed the innovative new vermi-composting system Subpod came to visit us on Zaytuna Farm. The S...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2019/03/21/taking-the-hard-work-out-of-composting/

Featured Photo : Photo: Corn, Beans, Squash, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Amaranth and Gardener Last year I worked a couple of gardens with a friend/boss, Buck, who has been cultivating these space...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2019/01/21/a-homemade-vegan-version-of-natural-organic-fertilizer/

Australia has one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world, with 38% of Australian households owning dogs. Dogs improve the quality of our lives, and studies show that exposure to dogs ...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2018/12/28/dont-waste-your-dogs-poo-compost-it/

In part 1(1) of this article I explored a little into why humanure is beneficial to the planet, including the need to replenish our aquifers and for people to have access to safe drinking water, ...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2018/12/05/humanure-part-2-dealing-with-it/

Despite having spent many of my most recent years in the tropics, and despite having grown up in Louisiana, where the number of seasons is pretty wishy-washy, I’ve always kind of assumed that a...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2018/11/17/useful-garden-projects-for-autumn-leaves/

A common problem when just starting a garden is dealing with the fact that we’ve not had time to condition the soil, fostering it into something heaving with fertility. Or, maybe we just arenâ€...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2018/07/14/make-instant-garden-beds/

What do straw, paint brushes and the human blood circularity system have in common?     The answer is capillaries, very narrow, long tubes. It is this physical characteristic of straw which g...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2018/06/30/straw-bale-gardens/

Composting is standard practice on any permaculture site. This is the case for several reasons. It creates a closed waste cycle between vegetable scraps and vegetable production, often with the a...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2018/04/16/common-composting-problems-solutions-beginning-composter/

One of the most unsustainable aspects of our current civilization is related to how we deal with our own waste. For thousands of years, agrarian civilizations have understood that the fertility t...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2017/10/18/top-composting-toilet-designs/

Good agriculture depends on good soil. The problem over the past 10,000 years of our human attempt to live off the land (and especially during the last sixty years or so), is that crops take nutr...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2017/10/13/primer-creating-soil/