Tag: biodiversity
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Why Permaculture Ain’t Just About Gardening
What an easy solution to many problems in life – look to nature. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! Permaculture definitely incorporates a lot of ideas and literature on growing food, but to narrow the practice down to a type of gardening is a mistake. Permaculture is about much more, from streamlining practices to designing…
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See How Easily You Can Create an Edible Landscape
15 years ago we covered our front yard grass with 2 dump truck loads of soil. That was considered a strange thing to do back then, but times have changed. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! Simply put: We can’t eat lawn. When I found out that lawn is the largest crop in the United…
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The real value of urban farming. (Hint: It’s not always the food.)
I’ve never stopped to think of the community benefits associated with a garden plot. Although, I smile to think of the days when I could send my kids to the front yard garden for a snack. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! During World War II, millions of Americans planted “victory gardens” in their backyards,…
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Permaculture for Urban Homes and Small Spaces
“The problem is the solution”, isn’t that the ultimate creative statement? I love it, this notion that creativity has a role to play in everything we do, even growing a small garden. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! What if we apply this principle to a challenge that many of us are all too familiar…
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What is Permaculture?
My Mother seemed to live by the ethics of permaculture, so much so that I find it strange to read the definition. It begs the question, why bother to try and grow any other way? Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! Permaculture is a scientific and artistic method for designing human settlements to meet humanity’s…