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Permaculture Design Course Day 5 : Trees
We’re half way through now with the permaculture course at Zaytuna Farm and still drinking from the fire hose. The main takeaway from today was that trees are the shit. I’ve always felt very connected to trees since I was a kid. I love climbing up trees and seeing how...
Permaculture Design Course Day 3: Foundation
Today we started to get into some more of the technical aspects of permaculture design talking about guilds, planning, patterns and we even spent some time with Geoff where he gave us a history of Zaytuna Farm and highlighted some of the key changes over the years. I...
Permaculture Design Course Day 2 : Methods
Day two has been full of continuing the discussion from setting up the context yesterday and building off this to cover the ethics, principles and methods that inform permaculture design. The most challenging part of this course is that I feel like I'm constantly...
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How Guerilla Gardening Can Save America’s Food Deserts
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ideas-innovations/How-Guerilla-Gardening-Can-Save-Americas-Food-Deserts-212355181.html#.Uch1gye00sw.tumblrHow Guerilla Gardening Can Save America's Food Deserts We need to see ourselves as part of nature, not removed from it. In order to survive sustainably as a species, the only way is to recognize that we are actually one with nature and the natural ecology of the...
The Mighty Rio San Juan
Here’s a little video that Trent took on our first day navigating down the Rio San Juan. It was a sobering reality check of the heralding endeavor that we had committed to. I spent this past weekend in Michigan at a remote...
Lessons from the Rio San Juan
We had met about one month prior at Project Bona Fide. Our first real interaction was during the orientation for Diane, Trent and I where I got a taste of his realism as we spent the day all asking lots of questions and learning more about how a permaculture farm...
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Fix animal antibiotic use by feeding animals more chemicals?
In February, researchers came up with an answer to the scary question: Do antibiotics in livestock feed create superbugs that put human health at risk? Unsurprisingly, the answer is a definitive yes. Good news though, the USDA is looking for a solution to find an...
I’m a road bike good: What kind of bike rider are you? Reblog to let us know or share on Facebook! Enter to win a brand spankin’ new bike from Civia Cycles here: http://on.fb.me/OC9qg1 Illustration by Corinna Loo
This data tells me that crowdsourcing is not a fad, it’s here to stay and it’s creating real value in the world. Our vision is to leverage leverage crowdsourcing as an enabler for consumers to create positive social and economic impact in their...
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