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17 people from around Europe travelled over land, air and seas to a remote part of southwest Scotland to participate in a peer-to-peer
training course in engaging children in permaculture. The first of its kind, this course enabled educators to firstly familiarise with the local landscape, weath
er and culture, then to deepen their understanding of the Children in Permaculture (CiP) pedagogy and meet the children and teachers.
The whole school attended an assembly in which they learnt to say ‘hello’ in the mother-tongue of each of the educators. Throughout the week whenever children would see educators, whether in school or out, you could hear them shouting “Buna!”, or “Ahoj!”.
Educators spent three days leading sessions with children (in four groups concurrently, each with 4 educators and 12 children) in two local schools (Gatehouse-of-Fleet and Twynholm primary schools). Educators demonstrated their expertise in many different areas of permaculture including building a rainwater harvesting system on the polytunnel (Slovenian team); sowing heritage rye seeds and speaking with children in the Czech Republic doing the same activity (Czech team); designing a new permaculture
garden (UK team); building an outdoor play kitchen (Romanian team); making pizzas on a campfire (the Italian team!) and playing in the forest (and mud!).
Feedback was harvested from the children, from the other educators and school teacher (about the content and delivery), and finally from a team of our choice to consider our strong and weak points and paths for improvement. The depth of learning for educators was fantastic, and really bringing the children into the whole team for the first time in the project.
The learning was incredible for the whole school, during the community engagement open-mic event on the Friday evening, the headteacher said that he wants to integrate permaculture across the whole school. Since that week they have really kept to their word, with the permaculture ethics appearing in children’s report cards, and in the whole school end-of-term harvest assembly (attended by many parents and carers), really showcasing permaculture in mainstream education.
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On – 26 Oct, 2017 By Teodora Radulescu
The follow-up to the bestselling Complete Book of Home Organization, the Complete Book of Clean is a foolproof, eco-friendly guide to cleaning your home. From establishing routines, making schedules, and DIYing green cleaning solutions to help keep every area of your home neat, safe and spotless—find it all here. True cleanliness is within reach, and achieving it is…;
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True cleanliness is within reach, and achieving it is easier than you think!
Tired of the never-ending cycle of grit and grime? The solution is not devoting even more of your time, but implementing a system that skillfully accomplishes—and maintains—the job. This is your blueprint to a beautiful home, including:
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David Latimer is the founder of New Frontier Tiny Homes. In this video he shared his 2nd tiny house build named “The Alpha Tiny House.” Like the title says, this tiny house has it all. Huge kitchen, full-sized jacuzzi tub, sliding overhead glass door, king bed, stow away dining. I’ll stop there. Just watch for yourself.
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Strategy! Design! Engineering! Management! Gardens?
These words may not usually go together, however in the context of “Permaculture”, they go hand in hand. “Permaculture” is the amalgamation of the words “Permanent agriculture” and refers to a system of agricultural design that aims to maximise benefits to the local environment and people through the improvement of resource efficiency, biodiversity and landscape synergy.
To find out more, check out the new Permaculture demonstration garden iLearn unit here. (Self-enrolment)
This unit has been created through the combined efforts of Sustainability Officer, Belinda Bean and the Learning Innovation Hub. Experience Belinda’s video tour through the garden, which is located in Building Y1A, behind the Sustainability Cottage.
The goal of the unit is to create an introductory resource about design principles and considerations that go with creating a self-sustaining Permaculture garden that can be easily shared through your website or through your iLearn unit.
Learn more about Macquarie University Sustainability and their awesome work here!
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On – 26 Oct, 2017 By Fidel Fernando
Editor’s note: This post was contributed by Blake Hurst. Blake is a farmer in northwest Missouri, who grows corn, soybeans, and flowers with his extended family. He and his wife Julie have 3 children and 6 grandchildren. Hurst is also president of the Missouri Farm Bureau. You can follow Blake on Twitter at @HurstBlake.
I spent a couple of days in September listening to the dreams of a bunch of inventors, entrepreneurs, and visionaries, who were making their pitches to investors from around the world. New companies at this year’s InfoAg conference made presentations about gee whiz technologies — companies lacking only money, loads of money, and oh by the way, they’re short on customers as well. We’re in the middle of a tech boom in agriculture, the first one I can remember, and we’re seeing an exciting influx of venture capitalists and geniuses into the farming industry. There may be a few charlatans in the mix as well.
The only people conspicuously absent at this event were the farmers who will someday, everybody hopes, pay for all of these ideas. This scene of slide presentations, talks about various kinds of financing, plans for roll outs, and worries about burn rate bears little resemblance to the average farm show, where farmers and salesman discuss the latest new attachment for tractors or the newest high-yielding seed. Yet this event had a lot in common with the typical farm show too, as the owners of these firms making a successful pitch meant the difference between success and failure. It was exciting to think that some of the innovations might someday be explained to farmers inside the big tent at a farm show, with farmers kicking the dirt, and wearing brand new baseball caps, and holding sacks full of well-branded giveaways.
Of course, we’ve had investment booms in agriculture. Some farmers took the ride during the consolidation of the pork industry, and many participated in the ethanol boom that blew through the Midwest like a March tornado. That experience is one most of us will never forget. Some of us won, some of us lost, and some of us managed to do both; it was exhilarating.
We’ve also lived through rapid technological change: the increasing size and complexity of machinery, new chemistry to fight weeds and bugs, and the genetic modification of seeds. But almost all of these innovations were brought to us by large companies. To say that Monsanto, John Deere, and Dow Chemical are large and well-established firms is an understatement.
This is different. Companies at the event ranged in size from miniscule to small, with few of them having any kind of track record. And instead of the traveling road show through small town diners that funded the ethanol industry, these entrepreneurs were looking for funding from well-established and one assumes gimlet-eyed venture capital firms — investors who know their way around Silicon Valley and MIT. This marriage, or at least flirtation, between agriculture and startups is something very new, and it’s exciting to a corn farmer from Tarkio, Missouri, population 1500.
Companies at the investment show could coat your cocoa or citrus with something, I’m not sure what, that will protect the fruit from bugs. We learned about seed inoculants, drone technology, and a process by which tobacco plants produce squalene, which is normally sourced from sharks. Growing tobacco seems much safer than catching sharks, who presumably don’t give up their squalene without a fight, and environmentally more desirable as well. One firm promised that it can produce proteins and oils from CO2 and microbes, which, as a soybean producer, causes me to have mixed emotions. One entrepreneur, with whom I had a spirited conversation over a beer, is farming crickets. A great protein source, he tells me, although he didn’t offer a sample, and I didn’t ask. I did, however, a couple of weeks later, find a brownie shared with me by a guy using chicory to replace wheat for gluten-sensitive customers. I can report that it tasted fine, even after spending a fortnight in my pocket.
For years, venture capital investment in agriculture averaged around a half million dollars per year. Only in 2014 did the total investment in agriculture venture capital exceed the investment budget of Monsanto. In 2015, investments from VC firms in the agriculture field totalled 4.6 billion dollars. That’s a breathtaking increase, and it will be interesting to see if declines in farm prices and profitability will slow the flow of investment capital into agriculture technology startups. Many of the companies entering the field are developing technologies that increase the efficiency of farmers, so it may be that financial pressures in farm country will increase the demand for these technologies.
One thing is for sure. Agriculture must innove. All of us will benefit if a few of the dreams on display at last September’s event come true. Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, stands high atop the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City, Missouri. One company at this event promised to destroy pigweeds by honing in on their genetic code. There is, as I only dimly understand, some problem with the delivery mechanism, but know this for sure: if a company figures out how to target Palmer amaranth and waterhemp, two particularly noxious kinds of pigweed, Missourians will replace Ceres on our capital with that company’s logo.
Pigweed, Crickets, and Squalene: Are Startups Ag Tech’s New Hope? was originally published in The Dirt on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
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Fermenting 3 cornered garlic – our favourite Spring weed. The plan is to make a garlicky paste for the times when onion and garlic are scarce, a paste which is also chock-full of probiotic goodness.
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Basically we gathered, washed, chopped and blended the leaves, adding a bit of 2% brine to aid the blending, and then added another two teaspoons of salt for good measure.
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Now the whole brew is sitting on our bookshelf where it will ferment at room temperature for a week or two until it’s sour and fabulous. Then it will go into the fridge to halt fermentation and get used as needed. That’s the plan, anyway. Based on previous experiments we’re pretty sure it will be great.
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I don’t know about y’all… but after a few days of eating leftovers, as tasty and healthy as ours may be, I am so ready for some crisp, fresh food! Harvest time ️
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Cabin in the middle of the lake. Seems legit! Only in Finland #discoverearth…
Cabin in the middle of the lake. Seems legit! Only in Finland #discoverearth Photo by @jannilaakso
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Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book”, Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of…;
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Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book”, Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book “is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. It is an inspiring, necessary book about agriculture because it is not just about agriculture.”
Trained as a scientist, Fukuoka rejected both modern agribusiness and centuries of agricultural practice, deciding instead that the best forms of cultivation mirror nature’s own laws. Over the next three decades, he perfected his so-called “do-nothing” technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and, perhaps, most significantly, wasteful effort.
Whether you’re a guerrilla gardener or a kitchen gardener, dedicated to slow food or simply looking to live a healthier life, you will find something here – you may even be moved to start a revolution of your own.
Most people think you have to have a bunch of land in the country, have some animals and a huge vegetable and herb gardens to have a self sufficient and self sustaining homestead.
They think going off grid is just for people with a lot of money and a lot of acreage.
While there probably is some wealthy people who do have a lot of land and like to live off of it, most people don’t.
You don’t have to have a huge bunch of animals. You don’t have to have a huge garden.
And you don’t need to own a house with tons of acres of land.
Matter of fact, you can do a lot of homesteading while renting. This can be a reality.
Here are some suggestions on what you can do to homestead now while you are renting.
These are just a few ways you can homestead while renting. You don’t necessarily need to do them all, but each one is a step closer to being as self sufficient as you can get.
On – 25 Oct, 2017 By Jim Mcgill
Flashback to that time I found a wild stand of #PinkOysterMushrooms ( #PleurotusDjamor) growing in my #Permaculture designed #FoodForest from my college years. No #Innoculation ever occurred! They just showed up! I have more video content on its way! But for now, just marvel at the beauty of these pristine mushrooms and their #Gills! I’m always mesmerized by this photo. ———————————————— #WildFoodLove #FloridaFungi #OysterMushrooms #PinkOysters #ForageFlorida #FloGrown #Forager #Mycology #Fungi #Fungus #Mushrooms #MushroomHunting #Hongos #Pilz #MushroomSociety #ShroomAtNoon #Hiking #Ecology #Vegan #Vegetarian #WildFoods #PlantBased #PlantAndFungiBased #ReGram
Go Green in Every Part of Your Life with These Easy, All-Natural Herbal ProductsKick toxic, synthetic skin care products and cleaners out the door and bring the healing joy of nature into your life with the simple, versatile projects in 101 Easy Homemade Products for Your Skin, Health & Home. In this incredible resource, Jan…;
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Kick toxic, synthetic skin care products and cleaners out the door and bring the healing joy of nature into your life with the simple, versatile projects in 101 Easy Homemade Products for Your Skin, Health & Home. In this incredible resource, Jan Berry teaches you the basics of making your own skin care and hair care products, health remedies and household cleaners―then how to customize them into truly unique and personalized items! You’ll learn how to make:
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All of the projects are easy to make and use commonly found herbs, flowers, oils and other natural ingredients. No fancy equipment or previous experience required! If you don’t have a certain ingredient on hand, Jan provides tips on how to substitute and what works best. Going green has never been easier or more affordable. With this book, you can use local, natural ingredients to make something beautiful, effective and good for you and your family.
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Guess who is getting really comfortable with some palm time. I can’t believe how…
Guess who is getting really comfortable with some palm time. I can’t believe how small this OEGB is! . . . #backyardpoultrymag #bantamchicken #backyardchickens #chickensofinstagram #instachicken #citychickens #video #chickens #bantams #roosters #urbanfarming #animalphotography #chickensofinstagram #petchicken #oldenglishgamebantam
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#TBT to spring and this gorgeous food and flower garden in #Halifax. It was…
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