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The Ultimate Guide to Natural Farming and Sustainable Living, Permaculture for Beginners

Barakah Farm StaffJan 8, 20180

A beautiful, comprehensive guide to going green and living sustainably. Permaculture is an important but often misunderstood method of growing food and building homes in

Permaculture: 5 insights for designing resilience — Mindsailing

Barakah Farm StaffJan 5, 20180

Permaculture is a philosophy and method of sustainable design. It was coined from the combination of terms “permanent culture” and “permanent agriculture” with the intent

Practical Permaculture, for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole Earth

Barakah Farm StaffJan 4, 20180

“Practical Permaculture is powerful, visceral, readable, and inspiring. It shows us how we can and should live.” —Joel Salatin, farmer and author Jessi Bloom and

Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition

Barakah Farm StaffJan 3, 20180

The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in

Tree Crops – The Permaculture Research Institute

Barakah Farm StaffJan 2, 20180

Tree Crops October 3, 2017by Tobias Roberts & filed under Trees For thousands of years, farmers have generally differentiated forestry and agriculture. Forests were either

The Importance of Guilds and Nitrogen Fixers – The Permaculture Research Institute

Barakah Farm StaffJan 1, 20180

The Importance of Guilds and Nitrogen Fixers October 22, 2017by Tobias Roberts & filed under General How is it that the natural world provides excessive

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barakah Farm StaffJan 1, 20180

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in

Watching my boys play “Octopus course” through the veggie patch, while I plant out…

Barakah Farm StaffDec 31, 20170

Watching my boys play "Octopus course" through the veggie patch, while I plant out Corn and Zucchinis. Oh daylight savings I could kiss you......longer days

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barakah Farm StaffDec 31, 20170

"We wanted to live in a place that could feed us: where rain falls, crops grow, and drinking water bubbles up right out of the

Mini Farming: 10 Best Ways Of Making Your Small Farm Profitable

Barakah Farm StaffDec 29, 20170

Mini Farming10 Best Ways Of Making Your Small Farm ProfitableMost people have never even heard of mini farming. The reason? It’s really just not that

Using Weeds to Read the Soil: Some Basic Concepts to Get Started

Barakah Farm StaffDec 24, 20170

Using Weeds to Read the Soil: Some Basic Concepts to Get Started April 14, 2017by Jonathon Engels Weeds are becoming a more and more appreciated

The Cost of Food Insecurity – The Permaculture Research Institute

Barakah Farm StaffDec 23, 20170

The Cost of Food Insecurity October 4, 2017by Jessi Gowan & filed under Food & Food Support Systems In many developing countries, undernutrition is a

Benefits and Barriers to Framing Traceability in Industrial Farms – The Permaculture Research Institute

Barakah Farm StaffDec 19, 20170

Benefits and Barriers to Framing Traceability in Industrial Farms October 17, 2017by Zakari Ajia & filed under General There are growing environmental challenges and stakeholders

Kimbourne Park: Building community & growing local food with a permaculture garden!

Barakah Farm StaffDec 16, 20170

“Moving from the country to Toronto, I found the concrete, congestion, and visible disparities between rich and poor overwhelming. I desperately missed the feeling of

Permaculture Zone Planning for When Winter is Coming – The Prepper Journal

Barakah Farm StaffDec 15, 20170

Prepping Editors Note: Another contribution from R. Ann Parris to The Prepper Journal. As always, if you have information for Preppers that you would like

Greening the desert: Taking Permaculture to Turkana –

Barakah Farm StaffDec 14, 20170

In Nakukalas, an acacia-dotted, windswept town some 40-minute drive south of Lokichar, Akale Samuel (aka Anna), 46, has been working with five other widows at

The Diary of the Integrated Farmer July

Barakah Farm StaffDec 12, 20170

July 2, 2017: Downfall of Western Civilization Through the Omen of Permaculture and Nature Personal Experience Journal Upon reading and looking through some of my

Inside the Lakota Sioux’s Fight for Food Sovereignty – MUNCHIES

Barakah Farm StaffDec 11, 20170

“Chokecherries!” Winona Katso shouts from the passenger window. She points to a bush sagging heavy with deep crimson berries just a couple feet away, and

Practical Permaculture: for Home Landscapes, Your Community, and the Whole Earth

Barakah Farm StaffDec 10, 20170

“Practical Permaculture is powerful, visceral, readable, and inspiring. It shows us how we can and should live.” —Joel Salatin, farmer and author Jessi Bloom and Dave

Spring Permaculture Update: Part II — Eco Thrifty Living – WORLD ORGANIC NEWS

Barakah Farm StaffDec 6, 20170

So much is happening on the farm these days that it won’t fit into one blog post. With three new interns and some dry, windy