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How-To Guides Tools & Technologoy Building a Clay Pizza Oven
A clay oven is a great feature that allows you to bake your own delicious pizzas, breads, cakes, and whatever you can think of. Charlotte and I just built one for the Wangunsari Permaculture Project...
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How-To Guides Gardening & Stewardship Banana Circles
Banana circles are a popular design element in tropical permaculture – for good reason! A banana circle is essentially a concave ditch filled with organic material, surrounded by a mound that is...
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How-To Guides Food & Preservation How to make Kombucha
Kombucha is a drink made from fermented green tea that enjoys a great reputation among many people as a health boosting beverage. Kombucha is said to come from China where it gained the name...
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How-To Guides Gardening & Stewardship Simple Raised Beds
Raised garden beds are a very simple and effective way to establish beds that provide a fertile ground for your plants, drain well, and are easily accessible. Raised beds are especially suited to...
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How-To Guides Natural Living Biodegradable Body Hygiene Products
In a recent post we shared some ideas how to replace your conventional cleaning agents with cheaper, biodegradable, homemade alternatives. Body hygiene products often contain a large number of...
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How-To Guides Tools & Technologoy Solar Food Dehydrator
A solar dehydrator is a great piece of low-cost, easy-to-build, and highly effective technology. It can be used for drying anything from fruits and vegetables to herbs and leaves or seeds or anything...
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How-To Guides Gardening & Stewardship Building a Herb Spiral
Herb spirals are a great permaculture design element that unite aesthetics and practicality while minimizing the space required to grow a large variety of plants. The major advantage of building a...
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How-To Guides Natural Living Biodegradable Household Cleaning Agents
The average household cleaning agents, such as your dish soap, your laundry detergent, your toilet cleaning agents and even your body wash and shampoo often contain chemicals that are harmful to you...
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How-To Guides Gardening & Stewardship Hügelkultur
The installation of a hugelkultur is a very simple yet highly effective way of constructing a raised garden bed. Hügel is a German word that translates into mound, which makes sense as the basic...
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How-To Guides Tools & Technologoy Geodesic Bamboo Stardome
We just built two beautiful geodesic bamboo star domes for the Wangunsari Permaculture Project in Indonesia, the smaller of which has been fitted with netting and put to use as a chicken tractor...