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1. Permaculture Planet
2. Earthbag Homes Earthbag buildings are environmentally friendly, eco-conscious, energy efficient buildings that are built out of bags of earth, stacked in certain patterns and on a solid foundation. Because of their design they easily make good use of passive solar...
3. Comfrey, the wonder plant Comfrey is a plant that is much loved by organic gardeners and permaculturalists because of its ability to provide fertility. Comfrey is a dynamic accumulator - it sends down deep roots and extracts mineral nutrients from the depths. These nutrients...
4. Backyard Chickens They will give you fresh eggs, do pest control, process your compost and give you hours of entertainment. Sometimes they even let you cuddle them! Get info here on breeds, coops, what to feed them, promoting good health, predators and legal...
5. Our Ameraucana Chickens When I was a child, one of my favorite chores was to collect the eggs from the hen house on our farm. When we retired and moved to the country, some of the first animals that I wanted to get were chickens. I wanted to be able to go out each morning a...
6. The Wild Homestead Blog  The Wild Homestead blog is about a family of 3 with a mission to make the most of our lives. Our project is about more than "going green." We reject consumerism, cook most of our meals at home, believe in hard work, getting dirty, bei...
7. Growing Unusual Edibles There are lots of things that you can grow in a kitchen garden. Growing common and easy to find vegetable varieties will keep you busy all year, but there are also more unusual things to try if you fancy moving off the beaten track! Many of them are...
8. Sustainable Building Construction, Green House Designs, And Eco Friendly Development Providing a vast variety of green building techniques and sustainable house designs. Including eco friendly articles, green living ideas and links. You'll also find sustainable living videos, green energy tips, recycling facts, renewable resource...
9. Earth Oven or Cob Oven What is an earth oven and why on earth would anyone want one.  An Earth Oven or Cob Oven is a fairly primitive cooking device.  It is a wood fired oven made from a mixture of mud or clay, sand and straw, which is what "cob" is.&nb...
10. Crystal Waters Permaculture Village Welcome to Crystal Waters Permaculture Village. Located an hour and a half north of Brisbane, Australia, Crystal Waters is a fun place to live where everyone, from kids to grannies and grandpas, pitch in and get their hands dirty. A diverse community...
11. Permaculture basics - sustainability in action Permaculture is a design system that tries to mimic nature to create societies that are sustainable. Permaculture is often thought of as a gardening technique, but actually extends into all areas of life including town planning. Whenever you think ab...
12. Green Environmental Links And Eco Friendly Resources 100's of links to green living information, news, tips and books. Also covering renewable energy sources, solar power, sustainability, eco friendly homes, recycling, wind power, alternative fuels, organic foods, electric vehicles, global warming, gre...
13. GreyWater - Use and Systems Greywater irrigation is pretty common in the desert Southwest. After moving to Arizona in 1998, from Washington State, I discovered that greywater use was actually encouraged by the State of Arizona! I was astounded. At the time, it wasn't even legal...
14. Green manures - use plants to feed plants Green manures are plants that are grown to improve the soil in organic gardens. They can suppress weeds, improve the soil structure, prevent evaporation and soil erosion and even make the soil more fertile than it was before - you just need to choose...
15. Backyard Chickens on Twitter A current trend is to move away from the sterile exotic lawn landscapes and move back towards useful, food producing yards. With that, the reappearance of chickens in the backyard naturally follows. All over North America, peeps are building coops an...
16. Harvesting Rainwater Rainwater is a precious resource. Yet many buildings and properties are designed to remove water as quickly as possible. It's time to change our thinking to welcome rainwater and become stewards for water. We drain rivers, streams and groundwater to...
17. Welcome to Earthaven Ecovillage Earthaven is an aspiring ecovillage in a mountain forest setting near Asheville, North Carolina. We are dedicated to caring for people and the Earth by learning, living and demonstrating a holistic, sustainable culture. Earthaven EcoVillage Image: Ke...
18. The New Victory Garden You've heard of the Victory Gardens and rationing during WWII and how vegetables grown at home helped families and the war effort. Now, amidst a bleak economy and mechanized, nutrient and soil depleting agribusiness, many people are thinking about gr...
19. Chickens in the Back Yard Some of my experiences with chickens in the backyard, and why I love having them around. Also why I could do without them in my garden...... they can be terrible vandals. The picture is Blackie, who was a really friendly girl, one of my first.
20. Rain Barrels Why pay for water for your plants when you can gather it for free? Rain barrels, which sit under your house's or apartment's downspout, are a great way to conserve water that, otherwise as runoff, can collect pollutants and chemicals on their way bac...