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Tips for hosting a productive and fun garden working bee
10 hours, 47 minutes ago

Tips for hosting a productive and fun garden working bee

ABC  

Building my city permaculture garden over the past two years has been a lesson in learning to ask for help — uncomfortable as it felt, at first. In return, I've offered my own time when others needed a hand — transforming a barren street verge into a lush ornamental garden, revegetating a huge rural property and building wicking beds in …

Friends City Help Plan Garden Koren Helbig Permaculture
This California ballot measure could change the way America feeds itself
2 months, 2 weeks ago

This California ballot measure could change the way America feeds itself

Salon  

Every fall, Mary Bull prepares for the olive harvest at her small-scale permaculture farm, Chalice Farm, in Sonoma County, California. But not all of the region's farms are as idyllic as Bull's, and the county has grown fiercely divided over a ballot measure that would challenge some of Sonoma's biggest agricultural interests. Farms of this size not only harm the …

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Daylesford family beats the morning chills — and perils of pollution — as they hitchhike their way to India
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Daylesford family beats the morning chills — and perils of pollution — as they hitchhike their way to India

ABC  

A few weeks ago, Patrick Jones, Meg Ulman, and their 11-year-old son, Woody, were waking to icy cold winter mornings at their home in Daylesford, in central Victoria. "The pleasure of hitchhiking is just meeting other people, and just the story sharing," Mr Jones said. "We've done a lot of travel before on bicycles and hitching and public transport in …

India Jones Way Artist Supplied Darwin Mr Jones
There are ways to garden with a bad back. Here's what a physiotherapist recommends
6 months, 3 weeks ago

There are ways to garden with a bad back. Here's what a physiotherapist recommends

ABC  

A decade ago, while travelling alone on an overnight train from Romania to Moldova, I suffered a back injury so severe I could barely walk for two months. "It's so easy when you're enjoying something to get stuck doing one monotonous behaviour or pattern for a long time," Dr Chan says. "This kind of movement results in a lot of …

Help Your Body Garden My Back Dr Chan
Gardening doesn't have to be overwhelming. Start by doing one thing a day
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Gardening doesn't have to be overwhelming. Start by doing one thing a day

ABC  

As I enter my second year of renovating my house and garden solo, I've been feeling a touch unenthused about all the decisions left to make and all the work still to go. Small tasks help build motivation On low-energy days, my "one thing" can be so small it's mostly tokenistic. The other day, for example, I committed to turning …

Thing Koren Helbig One Thing Backyard Urban Food Small Gardening Permaculture
Leafy greens and cardiovascular function: Reduced risk of heart diseases, other benefits of plant-based diet
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Leafy greens and cardiovascular function: Reduced risk of heart diseases, other benefits of plant-based diet

Hindustan Times  

A world where health-conscious choices intersect with environmental awareness, adopting a green diet has emerged as a powerful way to nourish both your body and the Earth. Leafy greens and cardiovascular function: Reduced risk of heart diseases, other benefits of plant-based diet In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Mukesh Kwatra, Founder of Smiling Tree, shared, “The goal of green …

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Writers’ retreats | Finding their muse, from Goa to Himachal
1 year, 2 months ago

Writers’ retreats | Finding their muse, from Goa to Himachal

The Hindu  

It was on the remote Scottish island of Jura that George Orwell found the perfect “extremely un-get-able place” to write 1984. “Each retreat has a different flavour,” says Tara Khandelwal, founder of Bound India, an independent brand that helps writers get published, which began with a writers’ retreat five-and-a-half years ago in Goa. It felt like serendipity.” The participants at …

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Three Karnataka farmers retailing farm-fresh value-added products
1 year, 3 months ago

Three Karnataka farmers retailing farm-fresh value-added products

The Hindu  

Merwin and Regina Fernandes @ Savera Naturals It was close to two decades ago, in 2007 to be precise, that Merwin Fernandes quit the corporate rat race and decided to get into farming. “As we had no prior experience, other than a commitment to organic farming, it has been a journey of learning on the go — by observation and …

Farming House Ent Natural Farm Organic Turmeric
International honour for Hyderabad sculptor Harsha Durugadda
1 year, 9 months ago

International honour for Hyderabad sculptor Harsha Durugadda

Deccan Chronicle  

City-based Harsha Durugadda has won the 'Emerging Artist - South Asia 2022-23' award instituted by The Arts Family in London for his exceptional contemporary sculptures. "I am thrilled to connect to the global community of artists, gallerists, writers, curators and collectors in contemporary and modern arts in London.” The various wood sculptures, titled ‘Sound of Rain’, ‘Tensor Field’ and ‘Mirage’, …

Art London Life Sculpture Harsha
How I'm creating a food-producing paradise on my small city block
1 year, 10 months ago

How I'm creating a food-producing paradise on my small city block

ABC  

This summer, I tore apart my backyard ahead of a major makeover to create a food-producing permaculture paradise on my small city block. The idea was to invest time and energy in good planning up-front, creating a strategic garden design that will pump out heaps of organic food yet require increasingly less effort to maintain. Understanding a few key permaculture …

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A natural approach
2 years, 5 months ago

A natural approach

China Daily  

A 12,000-square-meter area of land on Shanghai's Chongming Island has been transformed dramatically by Xiong Feng into a farm with a rice field, a lotus pond, pavilions, boathouses, docks and secluded corners where visitors can spend their leisure time close to nature. His ambitious project revolves around handcrafting canoes and having visitors explore the island's many waterways on them. Chongming …

Xiong
A natural approach
2 years, 5 months ago

A natural approach

China Daily  

A 12,000-square-meter area of land on Shanghai's Chongming Island has been transformed dramatically by Xiong Feng into a farm with a rice field, a lotus pond, pavilions, boathouses, docks and secluded corners where visitors can spend their leisure time close to nature. His ambitious project revolves around handcrafting canoes and having visitors explore the island's many waterways on them. Chongming …

Xiong
Bangalore Creative Circus: How an old warehouse was transformed into a community space for sustainability, art, food, and more
2 years, 6 months ago

Bangalore Creative Circus: How an old warehouse was transformed into a community space for sustainability, art, food, and more

The Hindu  

There is a photo at the Bangalore Creative Circus of what it used to be. The seahorse serves as a fitting symbol for the place, which seeks to propagate “a regenerative culture of living.” Ajay Raghavan and Manisha Vinod watched the National Geographic documentary, Before The Flood, sometime after its release. The couple quit their then jobs – Ajay as …

Art Space Bangalore Ajay Manisha Bangalore Creative Circus
How Edith set up a garden on the common property of her apartment block
2 years, 8 months ago

How Edith set up a garden on the common property of her apartment block

ABC  

Growing food on your own quarter-acre block is a "pipedream" for many aspiring gardeners. "We ran out of space," Edith told Gardening Australia host Costa Georgiadis. Edith and Shannon approached the Strata committee for approval to set up two garden beds in a common area of the block. Approaching strata Edith's advice for people looking to grow in a shared …

Space Gardening Garden Supplied Shannon Edith Gardening Australia
Two India Art Fair exhibits that use food, for thought
2 years, 8 months ago

Two India Art Fair exhibits that use food, for thought

Live Mint  

As with most big ticket events, the India Art Fair too had had a break in its on-ground programming last year due to covid. In this context, two projects, one titled Homemakers and the second titled Boochi Project, are unique in how they turn their lens towards the social, political, and ecological undercurrents of food — in terms of the …

Food Art Work Project His Mother Bali Vohra
Tips for gardening when you have sandy soil
2 years, 10 months ago

Tips for gardening when you have sandy soil

ABC  

Living near the ocean has plenty of perks, including proximity to the surf and the lovely sea breeze. "When I create a bed, I get heaps of fertilised loam and I dig it into the sandy soil, I don't just put it on top," she says. Helping sandy soil retain water To create a blooming garden from sandy soil, you …

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This American Chef is Growing Vegetables in the Arctic Circles With the Help of Permaculture
3 years, 9 months ago

This American Chef is Growing Vegetables in the Arctic Circles With the Help of Permaculture

News 18  

Benjamin Vidmar is an American chef living in Norway, in Longyearbyen. In Longyearbyen, the northernmost city of the world, an American chef has decided to grow his own fruits and vegetables where no one else has ever dared to. From the Saharan desert beyond the latitudes of the polar circle, permaculture is showing us that it is now possible to …

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From abundance to enough: What we have learned from the pandemic
4 years ago

From abundance to enough: What we have learned from the pandemic

ABC  

What is really necessary to live — as philosopher Judith Butler asks — a liveable life together with others? Religious traditions are full pf examples of renunciation as a path to salvation: from “external renunciates”, who shed their possessions and chose a life away from the material demands of society often in monasteries, nunneries or forest or mountain retreats, to …

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Farmer's worm juice in high demand for crops with permaculture popular in north-west Victoria
4 years ago

Farmer's worm juice in high demand for crops with permaculture popular in north-west Victoria

ABC  

In an unassuming paddock in Victoria's north west, there's a lot of action going on underground. Key points: Worm castings, also known as poo, are full of microbes Millions of beneficial bacteria promote plant and soil health The more you feed the worms, the more castings they produce Dirt mounds stretch across the landscape, providing the perfect environment for worms …

Farmer Organic Calder Poo Worm Worm Juice Rick Mancinelli
Son, father farm to feed neighbors during lockdown in India
4 years, 1 month ago

Son, father farm to feed neighbors during lockdown in India

Associated Press  

The garden that Sijo Zachariah and his father planted was a desperate measure in response to the pandemic. “You know, how are we going to feed ourselves?” Store shelves were emptying and plant nurseries were closed, so Zachariah and his father collected seeds from whatever fruits and vegetables they could find at the grocery store and planted them on their …

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Former triple j host and musician is pivoting to permaculture in the pandemic
4 years, 5 months ago

Former triple j host and musician is pivoting to permaculture in the pandemic

ABC  

Up until earlier this year, Luen Free's "office" was typically behind the decks in a dimly lit nightclub, sending techno beats across a sweaty crowd. Key points: Musician, DJ and former triple j presenter, Luen Free, joined the WWOOF movement after her touring income dried up due to the pandemic WWOOF stands for Willing Workers on Organic Farms, connecting volunteers …

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In seeds we trust: Meet the people saving our precious grains and giving us lessons in self-sufficiency
4 years, 9 months ago

In seeds we trust: Meet the people saving our precious grains and giving us lessons in self-sufficiency

The Hindu  

Move over organic pop-ups and farmers’ markets, it is now time for the seed to shine. Known for conserving okra varieties such as elephant tusk, red and Assam tree, and 26 varieties of brinjal, among over a 100 other vegetable varieties, they are now working on saving seeds from long-winged beans, Manipuri lima beans, purple tomatillo, chillies including the Ramnad …

Farmers Red Saving Seeds Season Farm Seed
Organic producers create permaculture paradise with purpose-built community
5 years, 6 months ago

Organic producers create permaculture paradise with purpose-built community

ABC  

Father-and-son winemakers, Richard and Sam Statham, have built a permaculture paradise to share the burdens of managing a property. Key points: Twenty-two people, on a dozen plots, live on the 140-hectare farm near Canowindra Rivers Road Organic Farms is a hybrid between a farming community and a strata title scheme The farm operates on organic principles, producing wine grapes, sheep, …

Community Rivers Road Farm Organic Donal Sheil Wine Grapes
All Hands on Deck
5 years, 7 months ago

All Hands on Deck

ABC  

SERIES 30 | Episode 19 Guest presenter Hannah Moloney takes us to the home of a young Tasmanian couple, and shows us that with great planning, great mates, great ideas and some hard yakka, a barren backyard can be transformed into the beginnings of a food forest, in just one weekend! Permaculture gardens, like this one, are highly productive, and …

Food Soil Zone Hannah Kat Zac Intensive Production