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'Kaikai fo Laef' (Food For Life), Vanuatu 2012
Shifting cultivation is still widely practised in the rural areas of Vanuatu, where land is cleared, cultivated for a number of years, and left fallow while families move to a new piece of land to repeat the process. After each cultivation period, the soi
'Regenerative Business 1.0' free eBook launched 11.1.11
I was invited to speak at TEDxHonolulu last year, and shared the story of my permaculture journeys around the world thus far...
Permaculture project in Mongolia provides low-energy solutions —on Transition Voice.com
We sent Transition Voice a postcard from Mongolia.. and they published it!
Altaitsudz soum: Large-scale fruit & vegetable production plot
In which we meet a former Kazakh-boxing-champ-turned-farmer and preview his largescale fruit & vegetable production plot on the steppe..
Extreme cold chicken shelter design in Mongolia
A small, well-designed and fully insulated (including the floor) earthen shelter is sufficient to keep the chickens warm throughout the winter (which can reach minus 40C) without active heating. The site we visited had a small earthen chicken house (app
Reforesting the Barrens of bayan Ulgii
Remember the Lorax? All the trees here have been cut down for winter fuel and building materials...
Bayan Ulgii Sustainable Agriculture and Economic Learning Project
minus 20C sucks.
Sustainable Agriculture and Economic Learning (SAEL) Project 2011
...some background information about SAEL, as described by ADRA-Mongolia, the NGO facilitating the project:
Permaculture Principles - adapted for Mongolia, Bayan Ulgii
The presentation aims to use local examples to illustrate permaculture principles in action. Photos are from Mongolian Permaculture Project 2010, ranging from the Dornogobi in the south to Tosontsengel in Zavkhan province in the north, and from a visit
A Beginners Guide to working in Sustainable Aid & Overseas Development
…and so seven months later I wake up in a ger [yurt], my belly in knots from too much tsu-te-tse [traditional salty milk tea] drunk the night before, and dash outside, into the achingly cold morning and over to the pit latrine at the edge of the hasha
A Beginners Guide to The Edible Garden Revolution
To my surprise, my parents weren’t exactly thrilled that their prodigal son was returning home from his two-week intensive course in the bush to convert their neatly manicured green lawns to a messy, hippy garden they would have to explain to their urbani