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		<title>The Jean Pain Way</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/15/the-jean-pain-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Feineigle</dc:creator>
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In the book Another Kind of Garden, the methods of Jean Pain are revealed. He spent his entire short-lived life studying brush land and forest protection, specifically fire prevention, alongside his wife Ida. These studies led to an enormous amount of practical knowledge for composting, heating water, as well as harvesting methane, all of which [...]]]></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>Hemp seeds grown in Australia&#8217;s first Hemp Farm</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/24/hemp-seeds-grown-in-australias-first-hemp-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Benhaim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hemp Farm is the world&#8217;s first public demonstration, education and working farm growing low-THC industrial hemp.
Based on the North Coast of NSW (Byron Bay), the hemp farm is dedicated to the many uses of this estranged plant. Grown under Government license, hemp does not contain psychoactive quantities of the drug ingredient.
The benefits of growing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FRESH &#8211; World&#8217;s Wildest Supermarket</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Gronbjerg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A holistic and most outrageous concept being turned into reality in Denmark.

From: Sepp Holzer&#8217;s Permakultur, Leopold Stocker Verlag, 2008
Fresh is the concept for an organic, living supermarket in cities and villages, where instead of taking the items off the shelf, the customer harvests the produce directly from raised beds!
It is a  system that works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Portable Sawmilling</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/26/sustainable-portable-sawmilling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Willis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Deborah Willis
Editor&#8217;s Note: There are still some places available on David Spicer&#8217;s 1-day Introduction to Portable Sawmilling course, to be held on November 27, 2011 at Edenfarms Permaculture. Click here to find out more and book.

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		<title>Maarten Stapper: &#8220;Biological Agriculture &#8211; a Third Way?&#8221; (IPC10 Presentation &#8211; Video)</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/25/maarten-stapper-biological-agriculture-a-third-way-ipc10-presentation-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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If you didn&#8217;t catch it already, be sure to check out the previous post with Dr. Maarten Stapper&#8217;s first IPC10 convergence presentation. And, after several attempts, I finally managed to get his second presentation uploaded &#8212; you can click play above to watch this as well. With decades of experience in the farming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maarten Stapper: &#8220;Agricultural Science and Technology is Stuck in a Rut&#8221; (IPC10 Presentation Video)</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/20/maarten-stapper-agricultural-science-and-technology-is-stuck-in-a-rut-ipc10-presentation-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  

I&#8217;ve been a fan of Maarten Stapper&#8217;s work for a while now. In fact, further below you&#8217;ll find an article I wrote, way back in 2007, about his experiences at the hands of his former employer &#8212; Australia&#8217;s publicly funded CSIRO agricultural research body. I&#8217;d recommend you read the article before watching Maarten&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geoff Lawton: The Importance of Establishing Self-Replicating Dryland Permaculture Demonstration Sites (IPC10 Presentation &#8211; Video)</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/04/geoff-lawton-the-importance-of-establishing-self-replicating-dryland-permaculture-demonstration-sites-ipc10-presentation-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  Geoff Lawton  speaking at the Tenth International Permaculture Conference
(IPC10), Amman, Jordan, September 2011
Photograph &#169; Craig Mackintosh 
After an unintentionally extended lunch break during the IPC10 conference day (dragging 130 hungry people away from their stimulating lunchtime conversations is not an easy task!), Geoff kindly cut his post-lunch talk short so as to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permaculture Site Assessment Practicum &#8211; Nick Huggins</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/04/permaculture-site-assessment-practicum-nick-huggins/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/04/permaculture-site-assessment-practicum-nick-huggins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Huggins</dc:creator>
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Wanted &#8211; 2 persons (only) with PDC that are keen to learn and assist on a 15 acre farm that is undergoing re-design in Northern NSW, Australia.

About 12 months ago Geoff Lawton and interns went on pAid consultation to the site with the client and set out the basics &#8212; water, access and structures. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking at the Urban Permaculture Landscape Design Course at Zaytuna Farm</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/09/06/looking-at-the-urban-permaculture-landscape-design-course-at-zaytuna-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Huggins</dc:creator>
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In June, students underwent the PRI&#8217;s first Urban Landscape Design Course which aimed at formulating the skills required to successfully transfer the theoretical knowledge of Permaculture into a professional, efficient and effective small business operation. The course was an intensive 5-day, 12hr per day immersion into the world of professional consultancy and project [...]]]></description>
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