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A critique of permaculture 11 Aug 2013 | 06:53 am
I just read an article that is a thought-provoking critique of permaculture, by none other than Peter Harper of the Center for Appropriate Technology. It's called Permaculture: The Big Rock Candy Mou...
Lots of exciting permaculture news! 9 May 2013 | 01:28 am
[the below was sent to our "students" email list of people who have taken our classes] There's a ton of exciting stuff going on right now that I want to share with you. I'll try to put them into rou...
Video tour of our first aquaponic system 10 Apr 2013 | 09:55 pm
Below is a short video demonstrating our first aquaponic setup, in our basement. There are currently 9 goldfish in a 30-gallon aquarium providing fertilizer for a variety of houseplant cuttings and s...
Proposal: earth-integrated, passive solar house 13 Mar 2013 | 10:20 pm
In my permaculture classes, I usually touch on the basics of passive solar house design, and I use the elegantly simple example given in Bill Mollison's Introduction to Permaculture (pictured at left ...
Awesome chart of vegetable garden guilds 31 Oct 2012 | 07:57 pm
A user of permies.com named Guarren cito has shared this excellent chart of "guilds" (companion plants) for common garden vegetables. It's one thing to see them listed, another to see them grouped ar...
Wes Jackon, thirty five years, a past and beyond, the future and beyond. 22 Oct 2012 | 07:03 am
(notes by Ben and Gordon Stallings on a talk given at the 2012 Land Institute Prairie Festival) Agriculture policy has depended at least as much on political history as on considered thought. Histori...
David Orr: Climates of Change, Resilience from the Bottom Up 22 Oct 2012 | 07:00 am
(notes by Ben and Gordon Stallings on a talk given at the 2012 Land Institute Prairie Festival) Fossil fuels are the common thread in many destabilizing trends. Climate change is just a symptom. Ther...
Wendell & Mary Berry, a conversation 22 Oct 2012 | 06:51 am
(notes by Ben and Gordon Stallings on a talk given at the Land Institute's Prairie Festival, 2012) 35th anniversary of The Unsettling of America. Fields that have been in grass for a lifetime or more...
P. Sainath, the farm as the last frontier 22 Oct 2012 | 06:42 am
(Notes by Ben Stallings on a talk given at the Land Institute's Prairie Festival, 2012) P. Sainath broke the story of farmer suicides in India. Prefers title of "rural reporter." "The two greatest c...
Eric Gimon - Decarbonizing the Grid 22 Oct 2012 | 06:37 am
(Notes on a talk at the 2012 Land Institute Prairie Festival, transcribed by Ben & Gordon Stallings) Sense of place meant different things from American and French grandparents. 5th generation vacati...
