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

Barakah Farm StaffJanuary 8, 2018

by Barakah Farm StaffJanuary 8, 20180368

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...

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Permaculture: 5 insights for designing resilience — Mindsailing

Barakah Farm StaffJanuary 5, 2018

by Barakah Farm StaffJanuary 5, 20180374

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...

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

Barakah Farm StaffJanuary 4, 2018

by Barakah Farm StaffJanuary 4, 20180484

“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...

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

Barakah Farm StaffJanuary 3, 2018

by Barakah Farm StaffJanuary 3, 20180505

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...

Forests-Trees [04-Plants][06-Systems]

Tree Crops – The Permaculture Research Institute

Barakah Farm StaffJanuary 2, 2018

by Barakah Farm StaffJanuary 2, 20180412

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

Farming [04-Plants][06-Systems]

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

Barakah Farm StaffJanuary 1, 2018

by Barakah Farm StaffJanuary 1, 20180375

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

Resources [06-Systems][07-Various]

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barakah Farm StaffJanuary 1, 2018

by Barakah Farm StaffJanuary 1, 20180376

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...

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

Barakah Farm StaffDecember 31, 2017

by Barakah Farm StaffDecember 31, 20170382

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...

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barakah Farm StaffDecember 31, 2017

by Barakah Farm StaffDecember 31, 20170357

"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...

Business-Income Resources [06-Systems][07-Various]

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

Barakah Farm StaffDecember 29, 2017

by Barakah Farm StaffDecember 29, 20170464

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...

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

Barakah Farm StaffDecember 24, 2017

by Barakah Farm StaffDecember 24, 20170515

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...

Food & Food Storage [04-Plants][06-Systems]

The Cost of Food Insecurity – The Permaculture Research Institute

Barakah Farm StaffDecember 23, 2017

by Barakah Farm StaffDecember 23, 20170385

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

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

Barakah Farm StaffDecember 19, 2017

by Barakah Farm StaffDecember 19, 20170480

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

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

Barakah Farm StaffDecember 16, 2017

by Barakah Farm StaffDecember 16, 20170435

“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...

Land Design [06-Systems]

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

Barakah Farm StaffDecember 15, 2017

by Barakah Farm StaffDecember 15, 20170483

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...

Farming [04-Plants][06-Systems]

Greening the desert: Taking Permaculture to Turkana –

Barakah Farm StaffDecember 14, 2017

by Barakah Farm StaffDecember 14, 20170462

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...

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The Diary of the Integrated Farmer July

Barakah Farm StaffDecember 12, 2017

by Barakah Farm StaffDecember 12, 20170938

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...

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

Barakah Farm StaffDecember 11, 2017

by Barakah Farm StaffDecember 11, 20170373

“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...

Land Design Resources [06-Systems][07-Various]

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

Barakah Farm StaffDecember 10, 2017

by Barakah Farm StaffDecember 10, 20170416

“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...

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

Barakah Farm StaffDecember 6, 2017

by Barakah Farm StaffDecember 6, 20170344

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...

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

Permaculture: 5 insights for designing resilience — Mindsailing

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

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

Tree Crops – The Permaculture Research Institute

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

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

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

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

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

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

The Cost of Food Insecurity – The Permaculture Research Institute

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

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

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

Greening the desert: Taking Permaculture to Turkana –

The Diary of the Integrated Farmer July

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

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

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

Goat Dibs is back! Better than ever – helping folks enjoy goats hassle-free

Barakah Heritage Farm version 6.0

You can learn to speak “horse” with a gorgeous purebred horse family