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		<title>Food Forests, Part 2: Looking for Clues</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/24/food-forests-part-2-looking-for-clues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McLeod</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Deforestation]]></category>
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As people become urbanised, they start looking at the world in urban ways. What does that car or house say about that person? How does that person&#8217;s occupation affect their social standing? People may not admit it, but they understand the answers to these questions intuitively. As permaculturalists, we need to apply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swale Fail?</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/20/swale-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>
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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>When Orthodox Science Meets Permaculture Principles, Techniques and Design Process</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/20/when-orthodox-science-meets-permaculture-principles-techniques-and-design-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicollas Mauro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Forage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bird Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Design science is at the root of any definition of permaculture or put simply, permaculture is design science.    &#8212; Bill Mollison

Permaculture is a design/holistic/integrative science, whereas the mainstream/academic science is reductionist &#8212; that is, to understand how things work, scientists break a system and study the tiny parts.
Nevertheless, permaculture can benefit from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Graft A Fruit Tree</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/19/how-to-graft-a-fruit-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunny Soleil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Forests]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  
  
  How to Graft a Fruit Tree
YouTube is full of &#8216;how-to&#8217; videos but only a few give clear instructions with professional presentation, good sound and really clear visuals. This is why I give top marks to the series of three fruit tree grafting videos from Dave Wilson Nurseries which have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shared Patterns of Indigenous Culture, Permaculture and Digital Commons</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/16/the-shared-patterns-of-indigenous-culture-permaculture-and-digital-commons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Bollier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternatives to Political Systems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by David Bollier

    Joline Blais
Rarely have I read an essay that knits together some very different commons with such wisdom and depth. Joline Blais&#8217; 2006 essay, &#8220;Indigenous Domain: Pilgrims, Permaculture and Perl,&#8221; is a wonderfully insightful analysis that reveals the underlying unity and logic of commons principles. Her piece appeared in Intelligent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rental Permaculture: How to Fill the Void</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/06/rental-permaculture-how-to-fill-the-void/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/06/rental-permaculture-how-to-fill-the-void/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Nekrasov</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Forests]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://permaculture.org.au/?p=6833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Bob Nekrasov

I hear you comrade. &#8216;I want those acres and to start my food forest and have a permaculture demonstration Eden &#8211; but alas, I am a humble renter with big bloody dreams and typically uncreative landlords&#8217;. 
 As us &#8216;renters&#8217; forlornly scan open fields and acres &#8212; seeing real estate listings of eroded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hugelkultur: Composting Whole Trees With Ease</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/04/hugelkultur-composting-whole-trees-with-ease/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/04/hugelkultur-composting-whole-trees-with-ease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Feineigle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Compost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rehabilitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soil Biology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Soil Conservation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://permaculture.org.au/?p=6825</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is it?
 Hugelkultur is a composting method that uses large pieces of rotting wood as the centerpiece for long term humus building decomposition. The decomposition process takes place below the ground, while at the same time allowing you to cultivate the raised, or sunken, hugelkultur bed. This allows the plants to take advantage of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Jean Pain Way</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/15/the-jean-pain-way/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/15/the-jean-pain-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Feineigle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercial Farm Projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deforestation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
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>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/08/abc-rural-talks-to-matt-kilby-about-farm-restoration-through-installing-trees-and-swales/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/08/abc-rural-talks-to-matt-kilby-about-farm-restoration-through-installing-trees-and-swales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  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>Growing Fish and Soil on Pool Algae</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/07/growing-fish-and-soil-on-pool-algae/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/07/growing-fish-and-soil-on-pool-algae/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ecofilms</dc:creator>
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Here is Geoff Lawton explaining how this particular swimming pool is growing fish and soil on algae. This is a clip from the recently released Urban Permaculture DVD, which has over 90 minutes of sustainable solutions you can try at home. 
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