Introduction In light of current trends, increasing numbers of people are attempting to establish self-reliant homesteads. Their main obstacles are high-land prices and lack of knowledge on how to proceed. Given that buying suitable land…
Dr. Richard Freeman Designed Ecosystems This Weblog describes seven easy-to-implement recommendations for designing and creating a permaculture garden. The intended audience includes urban gardeners and farmers seeking to maximize production of sun-grown crops in limited…
PLEASE NOTE: This post is a draft. I have not yet built this kiln but I have purchased the steel and will build it this May. So, I have not tested the below drawings. Use…
Introductory Permaculture Books Toby Hemenway. 2009. Gaia’s Garden. Chelsea Green Publishing. Bill Mollison. 1995. Introduction to Permaculture. Targari Press. Advanced Permaculture Books Bill Mollison. 1988. Permaculture: a Designers Manual. Targari Press. This book is a…
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Dr. Richard Freeman This guide provides step-by-stem instructions for setting up a 10-gallon grow bag using a zonal system (layers and spikes) for producing a high production plant such as Cannabis sativa (marijuana) or Solanum…
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Dr. Richard Freeman This guide provides instructions to formulate a high-production, biologically-intensive horticultural container media using sustainable resources. The intended audience includes urban horticultural operations seeking to maximize production of sun-grown crops in limited space…
Dr. Richard Freeman This guide provides instruction on designing and implementing an ecological pest management system, which should provide the foundation for any integrated pest management system. The intended audience includes horticultural operations, small-scale farmers…
Philip Small, Soil Scientist, CPSS These brief instructions provide a basic description of a sub-irrigated raised bed based on a design demonstrated to work on the author’s site which has prolific sucker sprouting from hard…