Peak Moment 62: Take a whirlwind tour of the Brookside Energy Farm with Jason Bradford and Christoffer Hansen at planting time. Along with perennials, annuals, a food forest, and dryland crops (grains), they’re growing Jerusalem artichoke and dale sorghum to produce both food and energy (ethanol). Watch Chris cut sod with a Swiss glaser hoe — a 1/6 horsepower guy! [www.energyfarms.net]
Brookside Farm – Growing Food, Growing Energy
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Aug 012009
This is our strategy for creating open source permaculture local food systems including plants and open source technology for low cost high appropriate tech self-sufficiency. See openfarmtech.org for the transcript and more information. We arelooking for people who are interested in building the world’s first replicable open source self-sufficient decentralized permaculture village – to transcend survival and evolve to freedom. Read more at www.OpenFarmTech.org Visit our myspace page www …
Permaculture – Thaddeus Owen – 1 of 5
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Apr 232009
Thaddeus discusses the basics of the Permaculture vision for transforming a consumerist society into one that encourages everyone to produce some of their own needs. This talk explains the
Apr 082009
EnviroMission, Ltd. (OTC: EVOMY, Australian Stock Exchange: EVM) is a renewable energy developer of sustainable “green” energy solutions for the energy market. EnviroMission aims to be one of Australia’s leading producers of clean renewable energy. EnviroMission holds the proprietary rights to Solar Tower technology, a large-scale renewable energy technology based on simple fundamentals of physics — hot air rises. Solar Tower technology has the potential to offer competitive renewable …
Permaculture in Action on Rainbow Valley Farm
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Apr 012009
This DVD shows how we have applied permaculture design on RVF over 20 years. We hope it will reach many Japanese people and inspire them to practice permaculture and to live a more sustainable lifestyle so that the life-supporting capacity of the air, water, soil and eco-systems are safe-guarded for future generations.
A YEAR IN A FOREST GARDEN Perennial crops for a changing climate by Martin Crawford
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Mar 282009
Forest gardener Martin Crawford, who recently appeared on BBC 2s Natural World programme A Farm for the Future, gives a taster of his DVD A Year in a Forest Garden, which will be out in April. Martin created a forest garden 15 years ago that is full of unusual edible plants trees, shrubs and ground cover plants which yield an abundant crop of food with minimum effort. His book Creating a Forest Garden: perennial crops for a changing climate comes out in Spring 2010. www.greenbooks.co.uk …