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  • Building a Profitable Permaculture Business

    Building a Profitable Permaculture Business


    Jack Spirko’s presentation from PV1 in March 2014.

    As more and more people learn about Permaculture a new business segment is developing.

    There is a strong desire in many individuals to do Permaculture as a full time business, either as a consultant, a teacher or as a small farm holder or even do all three.

    Can it be done and by more than just a few of Permaculture’s “rock stars”?

    Join this discussion to learn how a Permaculture business can be established in any part of the world, how to develop multiple income streams, earn a good living and still remain true to permaculture’s ethics.

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  • Geoff Lawton, on Urban Permaculture Possibilities

    Geoff Lawton, on Urban Permaculture Possibilities


    How well can urban permaculture provide for homesteading self sufficiency???

  • Redesigning Civilization — with Permaculture

    Redesigning Civilization — with Permaculture


    Modern agriculture, industry and finance all extract more than they give back, and the Earth is starting to show the strain. How did we get in this mess and what can we do to help our culture get back on track? The ecological design approach known as permaculture offers powerful tools for the design of regenerative, fair ways to provide food, energy, livelihood, and other needs while letting humans share the planet with the rest of nature. This presentation will give you insight into why our culture has become fundamentally unsustainable, and offers ecologically based solutions that can help create a just and sustainable society. This is the sequel to Toby’s popular talk, “How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and The Planet, but not Civilization.” A related article is at http://www.patternliteracy.com/697-the-last-nomads-and-the-culture-of-fear

  • The Woodland Homestead: How to Make Your Land More Productive and Live More Self-Sufficiently in the Woods

    The Woodland Homestead: How to Make Your Land More Productive and Live More Self-Sufficiently in the Woods

    This entry is in the series Best Homestead Plan Books

    Put your wooded land to work! This comprehensive manual shows you how to use your woodlands to produce everything from wine and mushrooms to firewood and livestock feed. You’ll learn how to take stock of your woods; use axes, bow saws, chainsaws, and other key tools; create pasture and silvopasture for livestock; prune and coppice…;

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    Put your wooded land to work! This comprehensive manual shows you how to use your woodlands to produce everything from wine and mushrooms to firewood and livestock feed. You’ll learn how to take stock of your woods; use axes, bow saws, chainsaws, and other key tools; create pasture and silvopasture for livestock; prune and coppice trees to make fuel, fodder, and furniture; build living fencing and shelters for animals; grow fruit trees and berries in a woodland orchard; make syrup from birch, walnut, or boxelder trees; and much more. Whether your property is entirely or only partly wooded, this is the guide you need to make the best use of it.

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  • Don’t Start Digging Permaculture Swales Until You Do This First!

    Don’t Start Digging Permaculture Swales Until You Do This First!


    Pete from DroughtProofTx.com laid out out our permaculture swales!
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  • 0 to Food Forest in 2 years. Permaculture Progress.

    0 to Food Forest in 2 years. Permaculture Progress.


    not the best quality video but really wanted to show you the whole forest. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE ! CLICK SUB !
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  • Introduction to Permaculture

    Introduction to Permaculture

    This entry is in the series Best Permaculture Reference Books

    First published 1991, Bill Mollison Second Edition, Published 2013Used Book in Good Condition;

    First published 1991, Bill Mollison Second Edition, Published 2013Used Book in Good Condition

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  • Why are there so few profitable Permaculture Farms?

    Why are there so few profitable Permaculture Farms?


    An email today, like many I get, got me thinking about the barriers that stop people making the leap to farming for a living. Read Making Small Farms Work http://bit.ly/2kuRTx8

  • Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City

    Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City

    This entry is in the series Best Urban Gardening Books

    When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a “permaculture paradise” replete…;

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    When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a “permaculture paradise” replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative food forest on a small city lot. The garden—intended to function like a natural ecosystem with the plants themselves providing most of the garden’s needs for fertility, pest control, and weed suppression—also features an edible water garden, a year-round unheated greenhouse, tropical crops, urban poultry, and even silkworms.

    In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles and practices of permaculture, the choice of exotic and unusual food plants, the techniques of design and cultivation, and, of course, the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Packed full of detailed, useful information about designing a highly productive permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to realize the garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed.

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  • 12 Permaculture Fishpond

    12 Permaculture Fishpond


    Please help me grow the Garden of Eden, spread Permaculture to the people and spark a 21st Century Uprising!!!
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  • The Do It Yourself Homestead: Build your self-sufficiency one level at a time

    The Do It Yourself Homestead: Build your self-sufficiency one level at a time

    This entry is in the series Best Homestead Resource Books

    Note: This edition contains all FOUR levels of homesteading.Do you lie awake at night, wondering how to make your family more self-sufficient in an uncertain world? Are you fearful and wondering how you are going to make it through to your homesteading dreams with your current finances? Are you wanting to feel more prepared for…;

    Note: This edition contains all FOUR levels of homesteading.

    Do you lie awake at night, wondering how to make your family more self-sufficient in an uncertain world? Are you fearful and wondering how you are going to make it through to your homesteading dreams with your current finances? Are you wanting to feel more prepared for any eventuality so that you no longer experience fear when reading the newspaper? Are you wondering how to expand your homesteading efforts while still maintaining the rest of your life?

    Maybe you’ve considered homesteading, but you’re stuck in an apartment, and don’t even know where to begin.

    Master Gardener, teacher, and author Tessa Zundel’s book, The Do It Yourself Homestead, will help you go from home to homestead little by little.

    The Do It Yourself Homestead covers eight topics, with each one given its own chapter:
    The Homestead Kitchen, The Homestead Garden, Greening the Homestead, Livestock Wherever You Are, Homestead Finances, Family Times, The Homestead Community and The Prepared Homestead.

    There are four levels of homesteadyness (a totally made up word) in The Do It Yourself Homestead, ensuring that it truly has something for everyone.

    Are you a HOMESTARTER, the curious and courageous novice?

    Or do you belong at the HOMESTEADISH level, with a bit of experience under your belt?

    Perhaps you’re a HOMESTEADAHOLIC, eagerly pursing homesteading wherever you live?

    Are you the sage HOMESTEADED type who fully identifies with the homesteading lifestyle?

    With each level comes its own education, challenges, goals and projects. Extensive resources are recommended in every section to provide further reading and study for the serious homestead student. Challenges are issued to help you expand outside of your comfort zone and build up your homesteading community – especially the community that is your home and family. Also included are countless quotes and interviews with real life homesteaders, all on varying lot sizes. Each one has a different family make up, a different vision and a different voice but each are inspiring homesteaders. Provided, too, are abundant bonus materials including a DIY Homestead Journal, homeschooling addendum to the book and free downloads. Four hundred pages of quality, DIY homesteading information and encouragement!

    The Do It Yourself Homestead shows you how to:
    •Not worry that you’re missing out on an important skill because you’ll see that all homesteading goals are connected and you’re taking it one step and at time.
    •Gain peace of mind because have clear goals and meaningful projects to engage in on specific homesteading topics.
    •Make your own food staples and use up what you already have on hand in healthy ways.
    •Feel years younger and pounds lighter by letting go of clutter on your homestead, emotional baggage, and outmoded thought patterns.
    •Learn to preserve surplus fruits and vegetables safely and even more efficiently than your great grandmother did, so that you don’t have to go to the grocery store as often.
    •Find the livestock that’s right for you, even if you have no land.
    •Create homesteading systems that are self-sustaining even if you live in the city.
    •Gain a level of preparedness that doesn’t depend on how big your food storage is whether you live in an apartment or on hundreds of acres.
    •Get out of debt and live without feeling deprived.
    •Teach your kids responsibility by getting them involved.
    •And so much more!

    NOTE: This book contains all four levels of homestead learning. Should you wish to only purchase one level at a time, please see our other items listed for sale. Each level of homesteadyness has its own book – Homestarter (Level 1), Homesteadish (Level 2), Homesteadaholic (Level 3) and Homesteaded (Level 4).

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  • Abundant Permaculture Forest Garden (25 Years Old)

    Abundant Permaculture Forest Garden (25 Years Old)


    This Forest Garden is only a third of an acre, however when you walk through it you are surrounded by an abundance of diversity and food. The Forest Garden was created by Tim and Maddy Harland who founded Permaculture Magazine and have been observing the successes and failures since it was planted. I decided to travel to Hampshire in England to take a closer look and share what they are doing. I think this is a fantastic example that you really don’t need a huge amount of space for a beautiful paradise which not only provides productivity in food but also productivity for wildlife to thrive. If this interests you the take a look at these links:

    PermacultureMedia Forest Garden Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYL5XsdNx_OELxxi78I8dJ5wRO4WR-_sj
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  • Permaculture Paradise: Val and Eli’s Garden!

    Permaculture Paradise: Val and Eli’s Garden!


    Val and Eli take us on a tour of their magical permagarden in Jacksonville FL. They have created a wonderful, natural space filled with self-sustaining fruits, vegetables, herbs, medicines, colors, water, fragrances, and wildlife. This is the very best fast food!

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  • A beginner’s guide to permaculture

    A beginner’s guide to permaculture


    Don’t get stumped by the name: permaculture is a simple, vital tool for food growers and gardeners alike

  • Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

    Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

    This entry is in the series Best Permaculture Reference Books

    Permaculture is a verbal marriage of “permanent” and “agriculture.” Australian Bill Mollison pioneered its development. Key features include:use of compatible perennials;non-invasive planting techniques;emphasis on biodiversity;specifically adaptable to local climate, landscape, and soil conditions;highly productive output of edibles.Now, picture your backyard as one incredibly lush garden, filled with edible flowers, bursting with fruit and berries, and…;

    Permaculture is a verbal marriage of “permanent” and “agriculture.” Australian Bill Mollison pioneered its development. Key features include:

  • use of compatible perennials;

  • non-invasive planting techniques;

  • emphasis on biodiversity;

  • specifically adaptable to local climate, landscape, and soil conditions;

  • highly productive output of edibles.
    Now, picture your backyard as one incredibly lush garden, filled with edible flowers, bursting with fruit and berries, and carpeted with scented herbs and tangy salad greens. The visual impact is of Monet’s palette, a wash of color, texture, and hue. But this is no still life. The flowers nurture endangered pollinators. Bright-featured songbirds feed on abundant berries and gather twigs for their nests.
    The plants themselves are grouped in natural communities, where each species plays a role in building soil, deterring pests, storing nutrients, and luring beneficial insects. And finally, you–good ol’ homo sapiens–are an integral part of the scene. Your garden tools are resting against a nearby tree, and have a slight patina of rust, because this garden requires so little maintenance. You recline into a hammock to admire your work. You have created a garden paradise.
    This is no dream, but rather an ecological garden, which takes the principles of permaculture and applies them on a home-scale. There is nothing technical, intrusive, secretive, or expensive about this form of gardening. All that is required is some botanical knowledge (which is in this book) and a mindset that defines a backyard paradise as something other than a carpet of grass fed by MiracleGro.Used Book in Good Condition

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  • Permaculture Paradise: Alex Ojeda’s Fertile Back Yard!

    Permaculture Paradise: Alex Ojeda’s Fertile Back Yard!


    Take a tour with Alex as he shows you how his permaculture forest garden grows. Get more info at https://www.facebook.com/groups/376132752470842/ (Permaculture Jax) and www.starwalkerproject.com.

  • Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

    Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

    Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times. Pity then, or more like disaster, that its fundamental ideas are centuries out of date yet are still taught…;

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    Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times.

    Pity then, or more like disaster, that its fundamental ideas are centuries out of date yet are still taught in college courses worldwide and still used to address critical issues in government and business alike.

    That’s why it is time, says renegade economist Kate Raworth, to revise our economic thinking for the 21st century. In Doughnut Economics, she sets out seven key ways to fundamentally reframe our understanding of what economics is and does. Along the way, she points out how we can break our addiction to growth; redesign money, finance, and business to be in service to people; and create economies that are regenerative and distributive by design.

    Named after the now-iconic “doughnut” image that Raworth first drew to depict a sweet spot of human prosperity (an image that appealed to the Occupy Movement, the United Nations, eco-activists, and business leaders alike), Doughnut Economics offers a radically new compass for guiding global development, government policy, and corporate strategy, and sets new standards for what economic success looks like.

    Raworth handpicks the best emergent ideas―from ecological, behavioral, feminist, and institutional economics to complexity thinking and Earth-systems science―to address this question: How can we turn economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive, into economies that make us thrive, whether or not they grow?

    Simple, playful, and eloquent, Doughnut Economics offers game-changing analysis and inspiration for a new generation of economic thinkers.

    Doughnut Economics Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist

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  • Backyard Permaculture FOOD FOREST, Functional Design

    Backyard Permaculture FOOD FOREST, Functional Design


    The Permaculture Food Forest is still in high production, and the past investments are starting to pay off. I have been harvesting so much food that its hard to keep up with. I am located in New Jersey in Zone 6B

    REMEMBER! THIS IS ONLY PART 1. Part 2 Will be released on Monday August 14th, at 7PM Eastern Standard Time.

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  • Farms with a Future: Creating and Growing a Sustainable Farm Business

    Farms with a Future: Creating and Growing a Sustainable Farm Business

    This entry is in the series Best Profitable Permaculture Books

    What makes a farm sustainable and successful? And what special qualities and skills are needed for someone to become a successful farmer? Rebecca Thistlethwaite addresses these and other crucial questions in this uniquely important book, which is a must-read for anyone who aspires to get into farming, or who wants to make their farm business…;

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    What makes a farm sustainable and successful? And what special qualities and skills are needed for someone to become a successful farmer?

    Rebecca Thistlethwaite addresses these and other crucial questions in this uniquely important book, which is a must-read for anyone who aspires to get into farming, or who wants to make their farm business more dynamic, profitable, and, above all, sustainable. Over an entire year, the author and her husband-experienced farmers themselves-took a sabbatical and traveled the length and breadth of the United States to live and work alongside some of the nation’s most innovative farmers. Along the way they learned about best practices, and a whole lot about what doesn’t work.

    Farms with a Future shares this collective wisdom in an inspirational yet practical manner; it will help beginners avoid many of the common mistakes that first-time farmers make. Just as importantly, it discusses positive ideas that can help make any farm enterprise vibrant and financially profitable. Profiles of more than a dozen representative farms help round out the invaluable information and encourage farmers to embrace their inner entrepreneur. Younger growers, in particular, will benefit by learning about “the right stuff” from both their peers and longtime experts.This book provides a useful reference for beginning and experienced farmers alike. While many other books address agricultural production, there are very few that talk about business management for long-term sustainability. Farms with a Future offers an approachable, colorful take on building a triple-bottom-line farming business.

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  • How to BUY Homesteading Honey Bees for Beehives | The Homestead Survival

    How to BUY Homesteading Honey Bees for Beehives | The Homestead Survival

    How to BUY Homesteading Honey Bees for Beehives is helpful knowledge when trying to get started in getting set up in beekeeping.

    How to BUY Homesteading Honey Bees for Beehives

    The first bit of knowledge a new beekeeper should have is not how to raise them, but how to purchase them. People may believe they by sticking a hive or nest in the tree, they will swarm over and live there. There’s a chance that could happen, but it is not the same as properly raising them under a controlled environment. For those who are interested in purchasing honey bees for the springtime first – have to know the process.

    Ordering them is actually a difficult task for first-time beekeepers because they are not aware of certain words and phrases beekeepers use. It’s like code. Professional beekeepers know all of this like clockwork, from ordering them, to preparing for their arrival, to start working with them.

    The first thing for new beekeepers is that they should pick what system they will utilize in purchasing groups of bees. There are a few differences. The bees should be purchased early right before the spring, and all newbies should study the entire basics of beekeeping and what to do when they arrive. In fact, this should be done before they’re even ordered. Get every piece of the field ready – especially the suit – for when they come.

    How to BUY Homesteading Honey Bees for Beehives

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    Package bees are one method of their arrival, where they come along a wire in a wooden shoe box-like package. About 10,000 (or whatever amount) of bees should be buzzing inside, including the queen of the bunch in its own cage. One bottle of sugary syrup is connected inside to feed them (because honey is sugary sweet)during their transfer. There’s the queen, its minions, and a few male bees, but the queen is on top. If everything else is ready and you know what to do, go on honey-making with the bees.

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