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		<title>Food Forests, Part 2: Looking for Clues</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McLeod</dc:creator>
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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>Food Security and Seed Saving</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Baxter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[5-Day Workshop with Kay Baxter (from NZ&#8217;s Koanga Institute) at the PRI&#8217;s Zaytuna Farm, NSW, Australia
In our changing and unstable world, the question of food security is becoming increasingly relevant. Our ability to grow healthy food locally and sustainably is dependent in many ways on the quality of our seeds. It has been a focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Orthodox Science Meets Permaculture Principles, Techniques and Design Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicollas Mauro</dc:creator>
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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>Winter Sowing – Germinating the Natural Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunny Soleil</dc:creator>
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When you consider how seeds germinate in nature, it makes sense to sow our own seeds the same way. 
In late summer, left to their own devices, seeds fall into the ground. They slowly get covered with leaves and other natural material ready to begin their long winter hibernation in the soil.
As the cold weather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rental Permaculture: How to Fill the Void</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Nekrasov</dc:creator>
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		<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>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>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>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>Tony Rinaudo: &#8220;Against the odds: Reversing desertification in arid and semi arid lands&#8221; (IPC Presentation – Video)</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/03/tony-rinaudo-against-the-odds-reversing-desertification-in-arid-and-semi-arid-lands-ipc-presentation-video/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/03/tony-rinaudo-against-the-odds-reversing-desertification-in-arid-and-semi-arid-lands-ipc-presentation-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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Tony Rinaudo&#8217;s IPC10 conference presentation was one of the highlights of the event for three good reasons &#8212; 1) because of the scale of impact his Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) work has achieved (more than 30,000 km&#178; of re-greened, regenerated land to date); 2) the utter simplicity &#8212; and thus doability &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Underground Forest: Using Biodiversity to Help People</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/03/the-underground-forest-using-biodiversity-to-help-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry Byrne Wykman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Harry Byrne Wykman
One of the highlights of the tenth International Permaculture Convergence was meeting Tony Rinaudo of World Vision Australia. Tony is a living example of the posture required for the development of truly regenerative systems. Tony has come to see patterns of people, plants and landscape which allow deserts to grow trees again. [...]]]></description>
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