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Slake and Infiltration Test by Ray for ENHS 766 Class

This is a video I took of my buddy, Ray Archuleta doing a slake test and then a rainfall simulation/infiltration test. He is showing the difference two soils...
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Syntropic Garden - Dryland Agroforestry in Southeast Portugal

Syntropic Garden is a documentary with pedagogical purposes, made in the context of the trAEce project for teaching about Agroecology. 
Filmed in Mértola, 2021.

Director, Image and Editing: Sara De Sousa Correia
Sound recording: Luiz Gabriel Lopes
Soundtrack: Criança Boa (instrumental version) de Luiz Gabriel Lopes
Producer: Miguel Encarnação
Road Producer: Frederica Teixeira
Executive Producer: Horstink Lanka
Production: Liquen Filmes

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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How to Make a Chicken Tractor on Steroids

Kitchen gardens, from small to commercial scale, can be fertilized through chicken composting. This simple design builds fertility continuously by sourcing chickens to do the work they enjoy and do best: scratching, eating insects, and eating weed seeds. From this, we get eggs, meat, and fertility, and the plants grown using this method will produce at a high rate and provide nutrient dense fruits and vegetables. Anyone can follow this system. Small urban versions on just 16 square meters can supply an average of one cubic meter a month, enough to fertilize 1000 square meters of garden. Larger systems, using 30 chickens, can produce a cubic meter of compost a every week, enough to keep ½ an acre rich and fertile. And, commercial systems, with 50 chickens, can account for two cubic meters of compost a week, sufficient for fertilizing a full acre of land. The compost piles begin with bedding under the chicken roost. Every week 1/3 of a cubic meter of bedding is put under the chicken roost, where they manure it. At the end of the week, this bedding acts as the base of a compost pile. Atop it goes 1/3 of a cubic meter of large animal (cow, horse, sheep, goat, etc.) manure, and on top of that should be 1/3 of a cubic meter of food scraps and/or weeds from the garden. In the coming week, the chickens will naturally disassemble this pile, spreading the outside as the inner core heats up. At the end of the week, the pile should be reassembled, putting the spread material at the core and the old core at the edges. A separate, new compost pile should be created with that week’s bedding. This process repeats, adding a new pile and turning the old ones, every week. After five weeks of this process, a pile is compost For an urban “chicken tractor on steroids”, one compost pile is turned all week and another is contained in a cage. At the end of the week, the caged compost pile is set free, and the spread-out compost pile is stacked into the cage. This cycle repeats for six to eight weeks, providing two cubic meters of compost every other month for a total of 12 cubic meters of compost a year. The 16 square meters of chicken tractor can provide complete fertility for 1000 square meters (1/4 acre) of garden production, as well as provide 8-10 eggs a day. To create these compost piles, lawn clippings and pulled weeds are added under the chicken roost for 6-8 weeks, where they are manured and begin the composting process. When ready, the bedding from beneath the roost is removed, stacked with manure and food scraps, and put through the composting cycle (one cubic meter in the cage and one being spread). The process of adding bedding beneath the roost begins again. Within a commercial garden system, the 50-chicken tractor runs in the center of large garden beds. The beds can have polytunnels over them in cold climates, or they can have shade cloth over them in desert climates. Or, they can be covered with productive deciduous or evergreen vines on trellises. The gardens should be separated by two-meter paths, allowing for machinery, and these paths can be shaded with productive trellises, too. These systems will feed humanity, and they never lose fertility if the engine is kept running.
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7 tips for desert gardening success! - The Permaculture Life

7 tips for desert gardening success! - The Permaculture Life | Think Like a Permaculturist | Scoop.it
Gardening in the desert can be harder than other climates, especially if you're not used to it. I live in the high desert, ~6500 feet. We only get 9-10 inches of rain a year, with a hot dry summer. Plus we have cold (-20F) and snow (no tropical fruits, sad!), high winds (very drying and blowing…
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Permaculture - No-drain pot

The prevailing belief is that pots without drainage holes are bad for plants because the roots will drown in water-drenched soil and will suffocate
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Fill with water once and forget the pot for six weeks. Do not forget to watch the results of the No-drain pot on the update (link in the end of the video).
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Rain Rain Go Away & Many More Kids Songs | Nursery Rhymes for Children By All Babies Channel

Watch Nursery Rhymes By All Babies Channel, Click Here: http://bit.ly/1LTXwi2 Rain Rain Go Away is One of the Most Popular Nursery Rhymes enjoyed by Kids
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The small-scale Hugelkultur Bed Construction

The small-scale Hugelkultur Bed Construction | Think Like a Permaculturist | Scoop.it
  Composting allows us to recycle plant materials so they can be re-used in the garden, but the materials need to be broken up into small pieces for the composting process to work efficiently. Traditional composting works fine for for soft green plant matter, twigs and small branches, but what do we do with thick…
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Farmers' Handbook - The Permaculture Research Institute

Farmers' Handbook - The Permaculture Research Institute | Think Like a Permaculturist | Scoop.it
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Air Pruning

Here is an interesting and simple-to-manage technique that will promote better root growth for your potted plants - air pruning.
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Garden Gadgets: The Solar-Powered Edyn Sensor Is Now Monitoring Our Raised Beds | The Horticult

Garden Gadgets: The Solar-Powered Edyn Sensor Is Now Monitoring Our Raised Beds | The Horticult | Think Like a Permaculturist | Scoop.it
It’s pretty clear that we enjoy teching out our terrain. Exhibit A: Our screen-filled Super Bowl garden party. Exhibit B, our outdoor robot heater.
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SOIL Haiti Publications available for download

SOIL Haiti Publications available for download | Think Like a Permaculturist | Scoop.it
Publications by SOIL: The SOIL Guide to Ecological Sanitation. Sasha Kramer and Co-authors. SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods), 2011. Available in English and Haitian Creole available for download... and more...
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8 Ways to Use Chickens in the Garden | The Prairie Homestead

8 Ways to Use Chickens in the Garden | The Prairie Homestead | Think Like a Permaculturist | Scoop.it
Gardening with chickens provides ample benefits to both you and them! This post highlights 8 practical ways to use chickens in the garden.
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5 gallon bucket self watering planter

5 gallon bucket self watering planter | Think Like a Permaculturist | Scoop.it
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Sunken beds as the cheapest way to Garden in Desert climates 

Constructing sunken beds for maximum water retention and efficiency, and best of all, it's completely free to build.

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How to Feed Your Chickens Without Grain – 20 Ways to Cut Your Costs 100%

How to Feed Your Chickens Without Grain – 20 Ways to Cut Your Costs 100% | Think Like a Permaculturist | Scoop.it
Years ago, as the cost of commercial chicken feed skyrocketed, I found myself in search of a more creative option.   At the time, I experimented with rotating the flock on pasture and successfully cut my feed cost in half.   After that, I experimented with free ranging and cut my costs by 90%!   …
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Composting Chickens

Real Chicken Coop Design How to produce amazing compost right inside your chicken house while letting the chickens do all the work. This chicken hous
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Hugelkultur Hoop Houses, Hugelbeds and Fukuoka Style Hugelkulturs

Hugelkultur Hoop Houses, Hugelbeds and Fukuoka Style Hugelkulturs Retain and Release Water and Nutrients for Plants. How to make them.
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myfood | Permaculture and Aquaponic systems

Sustainable food production and security in every backyard.
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Development and construction of an air-pruning propagation bench, and its proper use

Development and construction of an air-pruning propagation bench, and its proper use | Think Like a Permaculturist | Scoop.it
An in depth approach on what is and how air pruning should be used.
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PERMACULTURE / high-yield production in limited space / The raised bed - YouTube

Video showing the building of a composting raised bed in the south of France (hugelkultur r...
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Container Gardening-15 best vegetables that grow well in a container or pot | The Self-Sufficient Living

Container Gardening-15 best vegetables that grow well in a container or pot | The Self-Sufficient Living | Think Like a Permaculturist | Scoop.it
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How to Make Garden Beds from Scrap Timber

How to Make Garden Beds from Scrap Timber | Think Like a Permaculturist | Scoop.it
Here's how we made some quick garden beds from scrap timber with everyday tools. Is there anything more fun than vegetable gardening? I think not.
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The Facts about Dynamic Accumulators

The Facts about Dynamic Accumulators | Think Like a Permaculturist | Scoop.it
Within the world of Permaculture we often find reference to plants known as Dynamic Accumulators that help the soil, is it science or fiction...?
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Stacking Functions: The chicken compost run

Stacking Functions: The chicken compost run | Think Like a Permaculturist | Scoop.it
How to reduce your costs on chicken feed whilst also producing your own compost! The compost chicken run!
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