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Permaculture Principle #5 – Use and value renewable resources and services

Permaculture Principle #5 – Use and value renewable resources and services Well the classic of this example would be riding in a car as opposed to riding a bicycle. One uses up resources that aren’t...

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Permaculture Principle #6 – Produce no waste

Permaculture Principle #6 – Produce no waste Producing no waste simply means looking at things that might be considered waste and seeing if there is a way to reuse that waste in another manner such as...

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Permaculture Principle #7 – Design from Patterns to Details

Permaculture Principle #7 – Design from Patterns to Details Designing from patterns to details means taking a broad general idea and working out the details unique to your situation. A perfect example...

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Permaculture Principle #8 – Integrate rather than Segregate

Permaculture Principle #8 – Integrate rather than Segregate Integrating rather than separating or segregating the parts in a system makes the whole system stronger and will reduce the amount of work...

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Permaculture Principle #10 – Use & Value Diversity

Permaculture Principle #10 – Use & Value Diversity Using and valuing diversity can be applied to almost any idea or area. The most obvious example to me are what and how you plant. Instead of...

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Permaculture Principle #11 – Use Edges & Value the Marginal

Permaculture Principle #11 – Use Edges & Value the Marginal An edge is a transition from one element to another. Imagine that a forest is one element and that a field is another. The line where the...

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Permaculture Principle #12 – Creatively Use & Respond to Change

Permaculture Principle #12 – Creatively Use & Respond to Change Things change. Some changes happen slowly while others are fast. Some changes might be good while others might be bad. You could...

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Broken Glass Gardens Soil Building

Broken glass gardens is the little patch of land my parents let me play with while I lived with them. This video explains a bit about what I did to try an build soil on the eroded hill.

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Broken Glass Gardens Seed Propagation

Broken glass gardens is the little patch of land my parents let me play with while I lived with them. This video explains a little bit about my method of planting stuff on this little eroded hillside.

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Broken Glass Gardens Wind Break

Broken glass gardens is the little patch of land my parents let me play with while I lived with them. This video talks about wind breaks and wind can affect how things grow or don’t grow.

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