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		<title>Permaculture in Damaged Lands: Degradation and Restoration in New Mexico</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/21/permaculture-in-damaged-lands-degradation-and-restoration-in-new-mexico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Smith</dc:creator>
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  A certain coal-strewn road in Madrid, New Mexico 
 &#8212; the remnants of a now defunct railway.
  Alternately barren and spectacular, the southwest United States has piqued the imagination of Americans and people across the world for generations. The site of gold rushes, Native American homelands, and a culture of lawlessness that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swale Fail?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: It&#8217;d be great if more people would share their successes and failures in similar fashion as Greg has below. The reason I say this is three-fold &#8212; 1) you get valuable feedback from readers on how to overcome your challenges, 2) readers can learn from your mistakes and thus hopefully avoid them, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January Earthworks Course Early Bird Discount is About to Expire</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/15/january-earthworks-course-early-bird-discount-is-about-to-expire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Freibergs</dc:creator>
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Photo &#169; Craig Mackintosh
This is a courtesy reminder to mention that the 10% &#8216;early bird&#8217; discount ($110) for the January Permaculture Earthworks course being taught by Geoff Lawton at Zaytuna Farm will expire on Monday the 19th of December. If you&#8217;re planning to take part in this fantastic course, now&#8217;s the time to book.

  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ABC Rural Talks to Matt Kilby About Farm Restoration Through Installing Trees and Swales (Podcast)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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  Consultant Matt Kilby stands before one of the swales he has
  put in at Gippsland farm, Nambrok.
Photographer:  Kath Sullivan
Matt Kilby, the &#8216;man of a thousand trees&#8216;, shares thoughts with ABC Rural on his work (with Nick Huggins alongside) over the last 18 months at Nambrock, a property in Gippsland, southern Victoria, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greening the Desert Video &#8211; now also with French Subtitles</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/02/greening-the-desert-video-now-also-with-french-subtitles/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/02/greening-the-desert-video-now-also-with-french-subtitles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many thanks to Jeremy, Christina, Erik, Lamia and Kristen for all the work that went into creating the French translation subtitle file for both Parts I &#38; II of the Greening the Desert video below. As a result, I&#8217;ve been able to upload a version suitable for your French-speaking friends and family, should you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jordan Valley Permaculture Project Update: Post IPC Happenings</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/11/jordan-valley-permaculture-project-update-post-ipc-happenings/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/11/jordan-valley-permaculture-project-update-post-ipc-happenings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Lewin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  An aerial view of the site
Although the landscape here could be seen as a model for scarcity, what there is an abundance of is rocks. The baked dusty earth barely passes for soil and during the summer there isn&#8217;t rain here for over six months. With valuable agricultural resources seemingly at a minimum, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Update on the Recent Small Dam and Fish Pond Installation (Video)</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/01/small-update-on-the-recent-small-dam-and-fish-pond-installation-video/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/01/small-update-on-the-recent-small-dam-and-fish-pond-installation-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five days ago I edited together and uploaded some video files that Geoff Lawton sent through of a recent small dam and fish pond installation during the recent Earthworks course at Zaytuna Farm. Since then Geoff has sent through a few more clips that might interest you. You see, just after I uploaded the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Dam/Fish Pond Installation &#8211; October 2011 Earthworks Course with Geoff Lawton</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/26/small-damfish-pond-installation-october-2011-earthworks-course-with-geoff-lawton/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/26/small-damfish-pond-installation-october-2011-earthworks-course-with-geoff-lawton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this short video Geoff walks us through an overview of a small dam/fish pond installation at the PRI&#8217;s Zaytuna Farm in northern NSW, Australia. If you&#8217;d like to get a better understanding of the why and how of permaculture earthworks, you could purchase the Water Harvesting DVD, or, better yet, book on one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Geoff Lawton&#8217;s Food Forest DVD, by Paul Wheaton and Helen Atthowe</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/08/review-of-geoff-lawtons-food-forest-dvd-by-paul-wheaton-and-helen-atthowe/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/08/review-of-geoff-lawtons-food-forest-dvd-by-paul-wheaton-and-helen-atthowe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wheaton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click play to hear the talk!

Paul Wheaton and Helen Atthowe (www.veganicpermaculture.com) watch Geoff Lawton‘s Food Forest video and Helen really loved it. It shows a food forest as they start it, at 6 months, a year, 3 years, 10 years. 
Paul thinks it is one of the best permaculture videos. Lawton starts by talking about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sandot Sukkaew&#8217;s Tacomepai Farm (Thailand): A 20-Year-Old Permaculture Project</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/08/11/sandot-sukkaews-tacomepai-farm-a-20-year-old-permaculture-project/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/08/11/sandot-sukkaews-tacomepai-farm-a-20-year-old-permaculture-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Perlot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  Sandot Sukkaew explains the difference between his own organic rice paddies
  and the chemically-treated ones in the background. 
As the forests were felled, the life-giving water disappeared &#8211; Thai farmer Sandot Sukkaew made that critical connection decades ago while laboring in the mud of his father&#8217;s rice paddies, and he&#8217;s spent the [...]]]></description>
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