I’m going to be referencing Forest Gardens quite a bit and this video, which I should have posted long ago, is a good introduction by Martin Crawford of Agroforestry UK
Category Archives: Resources
Off The Grid Build Excellent video and images describing the process of an Earthship construction project.
Top Lit Updraft Stove
Here is an even simpler cooking version of the rocket stove. I am wondering how to make it a steadier cooking platform – but other then that it’s so simple and looks very efficient.
From Dirt to Forest
This video is a time-travel demonstrating 7 years of evolution of a forest-garden – from nitrogen-fixing ground-cover through to a autonomous and perpetuating food-forest.
The Woodman’s Cottage
This comes to us, and you, complement of our architect who, amongst other things, today, presented us with a first 3d model of our future house … and this inspiring movie of a beautiful house: More behind (and in front of) the scenes of the this project … and this is the construction method – [...]
Natural Swimming Pools
Beautiful, inspiring, fun … something to look forward to creating in coming years Available on DVD
Lawton’s Guide To Permaculture Design and Strategy
Here’s another 5 part series which demonstrates the diversity of considerations which lead to diversity of crops and foods in permaculture forest-gardens. At least watch the last two parts for a system overview and tour of an actual eco-system which demonstrates the concepts described in the first three parts.
Sepp Holzer – Terraces & Raised Beds
If you start inquiring about permaculture you are bound to run into Sepp Holzer – an Austrian farmer that has been evolutionazing farming for over 40 years. Also, if you start inquiring about permaculture you may, like I still am, feel lost and detached. On the one hand permaculture is a common-sense approach that works [...]
A Farm for the Future
A series of 5 videos shedding blinding bright light on the relationship between food production and oil. Every unit of energy consumed in inustrialized food takes 10 units of mostly fossil fuel energy to create. The implications of fossil fuel depletion are reaching. Bottom line: Stop plowing fields. Less meat consumption Permaculture – agriculture by [...]
Earthship Belgium One of the more vibrant and informative of the European Earthship sites.