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		<title>How to Prepare a Beneficial Microorganism Mixture</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/04/how-to-prepare-a-beneficial-microorganism-mixture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niva Kay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many have heard of EM mixtures, sold worldwide with cultures of effective microorganisms, that  due to their symbiotic relationships with each other can benefit the microorganisms&#8217; ecosystem in our soils, compost piles and toilets. They are known to boost yield and speed the composting process and are sold worldwide for their positive effect.
You can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Biochar Miracle</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/03/the-biochar-miracle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunny Soleil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carbon pirates bury black gold&#8230; so future generations will be richer. &#8211; John Rogers

Biochar is being promoted as the soil saving miracle of the century promising outrageously high yields of crops as well as removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The first video &#8216;The Promise of Biochar&#8217; explains what biochar is, how valuable it is [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/24/food-forests-part-2-looking-for-clues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McLeod</dc:creator>
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Click for larger view
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>
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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>Greeks Reclaim the Land to Ease the Pain of Economic Austerity</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/greeks-reclaim-the-land-to-ease-the-pain-of-economic-austerity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beatrice Yannacopoulou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: The recently-formed PRI Hellas (Greece) team are making good progress in difficult times, as evidenced by this nice piece from The Ecologist below. If you want to support this work, whilst having a great learning experience in an incredibly beautiful location, be sure to check out their April 23 &#8211; 29, 2012, Intensive [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Feineigle</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>FRESH &#8211; World&#8217;s Wildest Supermarket</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/17/fresh-worlds-wildest-supermarket/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/17/fresh-worlds-wildest-supermarket/#comments</comments>
		<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>Owen Hablutzel: &#8220;Water and Transformation in Dryland Systems &#8211; Resilience Science &amp; Keyline Application&#8221; (IPC10 Presentation &#8211; Video)</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/04/owen-hablutzel-water-and-transformation-in-dryland-systems-resilience-science-keyline-application-ipc10-presentation-video/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/04/owen-hablutzel-water-and-transformation-in-dryland-systems-resilience-science-keyline-application-ipc10-presentation-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  

Owen&#8217;s talk here is quite fascinating. While most in permaculture will recognise the importance of mainframe design,  Owen&#8217;s talk goes a step further, and dips headlong into mainframe concepts as well. If you&#8217;re one of those right-side brain type people who just loves thinking a little above and beyond and immersing yourself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret to Growing Healthy Nutritious Food&#8230; Compost and Biological Fertilisers</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/01/the-secret-to-growing-healthy-nutritious-food-compost-and-biological-fertilisers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Freibergs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  Zaytuna Farm Crop Garden
On the 21st of this month Zaytuna Farm will be hosting a Compost, Soil Biology &#38; Natural Fertilizer one-week course. Participants will learn beneficial soil biology &#8212; how to make it and how to manage it. They will benefit from classroom and hands on experience, applying supportive soil microbes as [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/25/maarten-stapper-biological-agriculture-a-third-way-ipc10-presentation-video/#comments</comments>
		<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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