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11 Year Old Grows Veggies to Feed Homeless 2,000 Year Old Food Forest in Morocco 2,000 Year Old Food Forest in Morocco 20 Eye-Catching Pieces of ‘Recycled’ Urban Furniture: Geeky and Green Adaptive Reuse Design Projects 3 sisters planting 40 Gardening Tips to Maximize Your Harvest – Organic Gardening – MOTHER EARTH NEWS 7 Food Forests in 7 Minutes with Geoff Lawton A Deliciously Resourceful Town Aims For Total Food Self-Sufficiency in 7 Years | Wake Up World A FOREST GARDEN YEAR Perennial crops by Martin Crawford A great overview of a permaculture project A visit to Offshoots Permaculture project Anatomy of a cob oven Appropedia Backpacking: Diy tools for backpacking The Outdoor Adventure Backyard Permaculture Backyard Permaculture badshah.net Permaculture: Vertical Growing with Arches Bee Strawbridge: Workshops Beekeeping: Ross Conrad discusses Natural Beekeeping Bees: gorw your own bee garden Bees: make a bee nesting box Berm: Build a berm with a bunyip water level Best of Permaculture online February 2012 Big Bird at Green Markets Biochar stove, how to make a dome school one pdf guide BOLTON GUERRILLA GARDENERS Build a Self Watering Container Build Your Own Solar & Wind Sound System Chickens that feed themselves Cob Homes Community food growing is good business Community gardens blossom Community Project: GROFUN community growing project Community Supported Agriculture. Compost holder: make your own Compost toilet: Emptying a Compost Toilet_0001.wmv Compost: Planted Compost Circle Covering crops to prevent weeds Creativity: Philip & Katie’s Garden Crop circle D.I.Y. Sub-irrigation Dave Angel: Eco Warrior Dervaes family garden (great permaculture project) Designing a garden with musical motifs: Organic Gardening Dig For Victory and Our Future Dirty kids are healthy kids – the Hygiene Hypothesis DIY Water Projects — Catching it, saving it, treating i, … Drinking water: how to treat it Eco Worriers Christmas Special | Cynnal Cymru Ecological Education: Education for a Permanent Culture Egyptian Walking Onions (perennial onions) Empowerment. Self reliance, Redpill Fallowfield Secret Garden Farmageddon – the truth about the food and diary industry Farming and urban gardening in cuba Films about the environment from undercurrents Food NYC A Blueprint for a Sustainable Food System (pdf report) Foraging – Lyme Disease and Japanese Knotweed Forest garden: 30yr self-sustaining garden Forest garden: Backyard forest garden Forest gardening book (feee full book) Forest growing project: Afforestt Freeganism Documentary FRESH – World’s Wildest Supermarket Permaculture Research Institute Fruit Trees & Berry Bushes = Frugal & Self-Sufficient Furniture: Cherry Log To Country Chair Garden planning: How To Program a Vegetable Garden Garden planning: Incredible possibilities for vacant sites Garden Sieve Gardeners to do list MAY Gardening apps, 5 of the best Gardening as a therapeutic intervention in mental health Gardening with kids is fun Gardening With Your Kids Is Great Fun Gardens Thrive on Top of City Busses | Wake Up World Gifts for Gardeners Glass Bottle Kiln (film) Global Buckets : Introduction (like EarthBox®) Global Village Construction Set | Open Source Ecology Green manure, how to make it Greenhouse made of plastic bottles Clare’s Allotment Greenhouse of of plastic bottles video 2 Greenwood Workshop Grow 20 Square Feet of Vegetables in 4 Sq Ft of Space with the Phytopod Container Garden Growing food is a political act Growing Food, Permablitz in Action Guerilla gardening GUERRILLA GARDENING AT OWS Guerrilla grafters: splicing fruit onto a city’s trees Guerrilla grafters: splicing fruit onto a city’s trees Harvesting Water the Permaculture Way Heirloom seeds: Saving Heirloom Seeds Through Crowd Sourcing Herbal firestarters how to make Homegrown Revolution (Award winning short-film 2009)- The Urban Homestead Horwich Harvest House building: This is the House That Hemp Built House Made of Straw || Adventures in Building a Straw Bale House How 1 MILLION Pounds Of Organic Food Can Be Produced On 3 Acres | Wake Up World How Many Community Gardens? How to be self sufficient (guardian article) How to Build a Chicken Incubator With Junk Around the House How to get a second crop of tomatoes — for free How to Make Electricity Using Plants and Sunshine: Scientific American Podcast How to make primitive kilns How To Make Solar Panels From Scratch – Make Your Own Energy How to Sheet Mulch http://beestrawbridge.blogspot.com/ http://rocketstoves.org/capturing_heat/pdf/capturing_heat.pdf http://www.justfortheloveofit.org/ Hugelkultur – proof that it works! Hydroponic Farming Trends Introduction to Permaculture – 40 hours of Free video lectures Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action Jesse DuBois – The Urban Farming Revolution Keeping Chickens: The ultimate beginners guide. Keyhole Garden – How to make an African style raised bed Keyhole garden how to make one (film) Keyhole gardens Kitchen: Building Made Entirely of Recycled Kitchen Sinks Korean Natural Farming – IMO Part 1 Lawrence Weston Community Farm Lazy gardening: gardening basic to get you by Living green the old way podcast Lofty ambitions: why green roofs are the future of urban gardening – Green Living – The Ecologist Low-Cost, Multipurpose Mini-Building Made With Earthbags – DIY – MOTHER EARTH NEWS Low-tech Magazine: The art of producing sustainable consumer goods: basketry Making Local Food Work: Manchester (film) Masonry stoves: how to make one from recycled paving slabs Medicinal uses for knotweed Mushrooms: Petroleum-Eating Mushrooms To Decontaminate Our Most Polluted Sites My Masonry Heater and Others My Permaculture #4 living realistically for ever. Natural Farming: non-tillage rice cultivation at Solitude Natural Farming: non-tillage rice cultivation at Solitude No dig method: Fukuoka gets better soil with no-till No Such Thing As Waste Nutritive Herbs Occupy Permaculture Old Pallets Old School Bus Turned Into A Tiny House One day challenge: Grassed area into permaculture allotment Opensource ecology loads of practical ways of making stuff brillant project Opensource ecology Ted talk Paul Stamets – Bioremediation with Fungi Peeponics – hydroponics without the chemicals, aquaponics without the fish. Perennial Polyculture Prevails over PeakOil Permablitz Melbourne Permaculture – Emilia Hazelip – Synergistic Garden (95) Permaculture Activist Magazine Permaculture allotment project, part 1 Permaculture Ancient History Of The Americas Permaculture and energy Permaculture Behind Greening the Desert with Geoff Lawton full 8:40min clip Permaculture design course, taught by Patrick Whitefield Permaculture Essentials: Nitrogen-Fixing Plants Permaculture in Ghana Permaculture in Miami Permaculture layers and zones Permaculture Pedal Power Permaculture Punks of Mexico City Permaculture research and development lab Permaculture urban style Permaculture ‘Urban Style’ UK Permaculture workbook: flatty-wholeSystemSequence.pdf Permaculture: Sid’s Punk Permaculture Garden Permagardens for Family Empowerment.wmv Permculture Insititue loads of good info Place to buy pants and stuff http://www.gardenandgreen.co.uk/ Plants that like shade table Plastic Bottle Lights… Amazing! Practical Permaculture in Britain – Pt2 Practical Permaculture in Britain – Pt5 Primrose organics audio slideshow Primrose organics centre UK courses etc Product hacking – how to make loads of stuff profit: organic farming vs. permaculture farming Punk Rock Permaculture E-zine Rain gutter gardens Raised garden beds: hugelkultur instead of irrigation Rat-tailed Radish Replanting hedgerows using permaculture design | Permaculture Magazine Resislent food systems how to design them without money and fossil fuels Revegetating and Reducing Fire Risk in Spring Creek Gully Reversing climate change & desertification with holistic planned grazing Rob Hopkins – International Permaculture Day 2012 Rocket stove six brick mould Rocketstove How it’s made Roof gardening in New York Roundhouse: Take a Tour of ‘That Roundhouse’ built by Tony Wrench & Faith (film) Russia provides loads of its own food in small family plots Sawdust stove: how to make one School Turns Abandoned Field into Organic Farm, Growing Ton of Produce for Cafeteria Seed bomb Britain Seeds: ‘Our Seeds’ 57 mn doco (Nossas Sementes) Self-Watering Container Using 2 Containers Shareable: Design It Yourself Shareable: How to Map Assets & Expose Real Wealth for Shared Futures Shipping container house! Film Showers: 500 showers heated from one small compost pile: a how to tutorial Sid’s Inner City Garden update.f4v Sid’s Punk Permaculture Garden Slugs – a homeopathic approach Small holdings: Website for finding small holdings Soil Building Methodologies Soil: Enhancing the dirt Soil: The Secret is in the Soil Solar Cookers Solar Food Dehydrator Solving poverty with urine “piss poor film” Spiral garden Spiralseed permaculture information site Spring pruning Straw Bale Building: Rachel Shiamh (film) Strawbale gardening Strawjet a Solution to deforestation Sub irrigated planter: Make a 2 litre sub irrigated planter Surplus apples, pears, plums, cherries for sale or to give away Swales in Landscape Swedish Fire Torch (film) Technique for getting garden grown TEDxManhattan – Howard Hinterthuer – Veterans Food Production Program Temperate climate permaculture site loads of great tips Temperate Climate Permaculture. Your source for Permaculture design in a Temperate Climate! The Basics of Natural Farming (part 1 of 2) The Fast Show – The Offroaders – S03E04 The Man Who Stopped the Desert – Trailer The Permaculture Movement Grows From Underground The Transformation of Our Home by Michelle Avis on Prezi The wildflowers of detroit community ecology Thermoelectric Generator Three sisters planting for allotments To till or not to till Tour of the Sabina Permaculture Project Tree Identification Walk Part 1 Tree pits: The design of tree pits Tree stumps: How to remove tree stumps without chemicals or tools Unclog drains the eco way United Kingdom – List of permaculture projects – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Urban farms an east bay tour Urban Permaculture Urban permaculture – city repair, re pattering the grid etc. Urban Permaculture in Bolton Urban Permaculture UK 2008 Urban Vertical Gardening Using Biochar (charcoal / agrichar / terra preta) to improve soil and sequester carbon Vertical gardens and living walls series of great images Vertical Veg – inspiring and supporting food growing in tiny spaces Vetiver System (Vetiver Grass): Ground Water Recharge Vetiver System (Vetiver Grass): Soil and Water Conservation Watch a jaw-dropping northern lights display Weeds that arent weeds podcast on weeds and what you can eat and use What Should I Do If I Can’t Grow a Garden? Why local farmer is important Willow crafts Windowfarms: how to build Wood gas generator WORM MAN WWOOFing website World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms Zaytuna Farm Video Tour (Apr/May 2012) – Ten Years of (R)Evolutionary Design Zeer Pot-in-pot refrigerator higher humidity results Flower Pot Fridge