This family in Australia completely shifted the way they source their food – with remarkable success. When wife Nici suffered an illness, the Coopers decided to start growing their own produce at home ...

Nancy Nafula, a small-scale farmer from Bumula in Bungoma County abandoned Tobacco farming for high-value crops two years ago. She is among hundreds of farmers in Western Kenya who have embraced ...

I’m farmer Henry Gwynn, a seventh generation Tallahassee native, and with the help of my hard-working fiancée Burgen Schwartz, run a permaculture farm just south of Tallahassee, Treehouse Permaculture ...

This Note is intended as an introduction to the subject of permaculture. It discusses the importance of permaculture and urban farming and provides an outline of its philosophical basis and principles ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Jeff Stainthorp wants everything on his farm to have a purpose. Sure, he’s growing corn. But right next to it is buckwheat. Together, they will shade the ground, cutting back the ...

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Being a woman farmer in Puerto Rico is a beautiful thing. I am not a woman farmer, but I’ve spent the last three months meeting women across the island who are leading farming initiatives ranging from ...

Andrew Martin left the fast-paced business world in order to live a more simple and sustainable life in balance with nature. He and his wife Beth bought five acres in Bay of Plenty, a region on the ...

New and existing scientific research into permaculture and permaculture-inspired techniques in rice cultivation has revealed it has several environmental benefits, outweighing certain impacts created ...

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111Then there are the lettuces lush as ferns, raspberries that melt on the tongue and carrots like big, orange wands. Paul Gautschi, when giving a tour of his garden, wants you to graze and taste your ...

In my ongoing quest to learn everything I can about gardening as part of our Million Gardens Movement, I recently encountered a fascinating thing: urban permaculture. Australian academics Bill ...