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Description. "WeFarm is a project from the Cafédirect Producers’ Foundation (CPF), a UK-registered charity who works with smallholder tea, coffee and cocoa farmers and their organisations. Their current programmes reach ~280,000 smallholders across 12 countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia.
Permablitzing is a way of turning lawn into micro-farm and suburban house into urban homestead. The term 'Permablitz' is, in fact, a portmanteau of the words 'Permaculture' and ‘Backyard Blitz.’ Permaculture is a design system for sustainable agriculture.
In 2020, we set our sights on a small, arid plot of land in the village of Abela, Portugal. Home to an old poultry farm, the land is surrounded by beautiful hills and valleys, protected oak trees, a flowing river, an earth-built farmhouse, and the old community mill.
Description. John Robb: "One of the solutions to growing food during more frequent and severe droughts is to use aquaponics. Aquaponics is a gardening system that combines both fish farming and hydroponics. It very good system to use during a drought, since it uses much less water than traditional gardening (more on aquaponics automation and ...
“In the early eighteenth century farmers and farm workers made up three-quarters or more of the labour force in nearly every country”. Yet by the late twentieth century this had fallen to as low as two per cent of the workforce in Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA, while in Europe it employs about 8 per cent (Grigg, 1987, p. 95).
backyard farm animals, and learning back-to-basics skills, these modern-day pioneers have revived the old-fashioned spirit of self-reliance and resourcefulness. Since 2001, their website has inspired hundreds of thousands to take steps towards a ...
PatternDynamics is a simple tool that can be learned by anyone to overcome the challenges posed by complex systems–at any scale. Here’s how it works: The key to complexity is systems thinking; The key to systems thinking is Patterns; and, The key to using Patterns is to form them into a language. Winton’s language of visual patterns to ...
