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The One-Straw Revolution
Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008) was a farmer and philosopher who was born and raised on the Japanese island of Shikoku. He studied plant pathology and spent several years working as a customs inspector in Yokohama. While working there, at the age of 25, he had an inspiration that changed his life. He decided to quit his job, return to his home village and put his ideas into practice by applying them to agriculture. Over the next 65 years he worked to develop a system of natural farming that demonstrated the insight he was given as a young man, believing that it could be of great benefit to the world.
The 5 Acre Permaculture Homestead - video
Jonathan Dodd of Nebraska is jammin out his 5 acre homestead with permaculture abundance: Market gardens, fruit and nut trees, chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, sheep and ALL kinds of goodness. It’s hard to believe just how much one can do on only five acres of land.
Deep Green Permaculture
Connecting People to Nature, Empowering People to Live Sustainably! We’re an educational website, and on this site you’ll find lots of practical information and easy to follow DIY (do-it-yourself) instructional guides on a wide range of topics.
Mother Earth News
Learn how to use natural, organic gardening methods to grow the freshest food in your own garden.
Permaculture Magazine
Permaculture - practical solutions beyond sustainability; is a bestselling international green/environmental magazine. Its 88 pages are packed with inspiring articles written by leading experts alongside the readers' own tips and solutions. Published quarterly, this pioneering magazine is full of money saving ideas for your home, garden and community.
Urban Farming Institute
Focused on growing food, training farmers, and contributing to a local, green economy.
Edible Landscaping
An education and design company specializing in edible gardens.
Singing frogs Farm
Singing Frogs Farm is a unique, no-till , ecologically beneficial, highly intensive vegetable farm in Sonoma County, California. Through regenerative, innovative farming systems they have more then quadrupled the organic matter in the soil (which means more nutrient dense food) - all while producing over six times the state average or harvest revenue per acre per year. This farm uses less water to produce vegetables because of the super-charged organic matter and uses no sprays.
Grossing $350,000 on 1.5 Acres. No-Till Vegetable Production. video
Neversink Farm in NY grosses $350,000 on farming 1.5 acres (area in production). It's an amazingly productive and efficient high intensity vegetable farm. And they are doing it all no till and with appropriate tech.
Cybernated Farm Systems
Cybernated Farm Systems, LLC, (CFS), is a socially conscious company dedicated to the standards of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). Our mission is to provide a sustainable agricultural production system, using Systems Engineering and Integration practices (as used by NASA and other technologically sound entities) to develop highly automated aquaponic farm facilities that are clean energy powered, such that the facility is highly self sufficient, grid independent, and requires minimal technical support or human intervention. CFS will use technology and science to accomplish the goal of creating decentralized (local) high yield, small footprint aquaponic farm buildings that are ecologically sound, environmentally conscious and robust in performance and sustainability.
Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association of New Zealand
The Association was established in 1945 to promote biodynamic methods. The objects of the Association are to foster, guide and safeguard in New Zealand the biodynamic approach to agriculture, horticulture, forestry and animal husbandry as initiated by Rudolf Steiner in 1924 and as practised progressively since that time. The association is affiliated with the General Anthroposophical Society.
Biodynamics
The year 2013 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Biodynamic Association, making us the oldest sustainable agriculture organization in the United States.
Find a Composter near you!
Use this search able database to find a composting facility in your area!
Solar Tractor and More Solar Farming Products
Sustainability / eco-friendly /alternative energy / solar energy /renewable energy /organic gardening / biodynamic gardening / intensive gardening / composting / farm-to-table / locally grown /permaculture / appropriate technology / earth-friendly / microenterprising / nonpolitical / environmentally sensitive / non-polluting / no chemicals / no gas or oil / no noise / no smoke / no utility fees / work free everywhere
Grow above ground potatoes in a basket, a potato basket
How to grow potatoes in a small area, above ground, or in the city. A great idea...
Dirt Doctor
ORGANIC GARDENING - THE NEW MAINSTREAM!
Welcome to our organic web site. We hope you like it, will use it regularly and pass on your suggestions for improvement. In the meantime, enjoy and use the information and - donÆt forget to feed the birds!
Welcome to our organic web site. We hope you like it, will use it regularly and pass on your suggestions for improvement. In the meantime, enjoy and use the information and - donÆt forget to feed the birds!
Easy Green
Sprouts are the ideal natural supplement- The food of the future. They are economical, ecological, low in calories/fat, easy to store, fast and easy to grow, tasty and versatile. For the avoidance of toxic build-up, free radicals, Oxides, Hydroxyls, etc....we need to add nutrients directly from nature and 100% organic- Sprouts are the answer. This conviction was my motivation to develop the world's best home automatic sprouting appliance, the Easy Green, intending to encourage and ease the consumption of sprouts by all, for a healthier world.
Earthbound Farm Organics
When they began, Earthbound FarmÆs founders were not farmers. They had no preconceived notions about how farming "should be done." In those early days, the choice to go organic was a natural one; they simply didn't want to breathe the chemicals in the storage shed, or touch them in the field, or eat them on their own food.
Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA)
HDRA is Europe's largest organic membership organisation. It is dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food.
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movement
Leading, uniting and assisting the organic movement in its full diversity. Our goal is the worldwide adoption of ecologically, socially and economically sound systems that are based on the principles of Organic Agriculture.
Organic Farming Research Foundation
A non-profit foundation founded to sponsor research related to organic farming practices, to disseminate research results to organic farmers and to growers interested in adopting organic production systems, to educate the public and decision-makers about organic farming issues.
Organic Trade Association
A membership based organization works to promote organic products in the marketplace and to protect the integrity of organic standards.
Permaculture Institute
Actively working at ground level on many international and domestic projects, the Permaculture Institute is a non-profit organization devoted to promotion and support of the sustainability of human culture and settlements.
Soil Food Web
To grow healthy, productive plants you need healthy, productive soil. It is the organisms in the soil that provide the food plants need, in the form they need, when they need it. At Soil Foodweb, we measure the quality and quantity of these vital organisms and provide guidance in how to build your soil so your soil can build your plants.
The Dietrick Institute
nonprofit, non-membership institute providing training and education about biological pest control as an alternative to the use of toxic chemicals in agriculture.
Our mission is to develop and offer learning opportunities that promote ecologically based pest management. We start with practical strategies that restore biodiversity in soil and aerial food webs. We work mainly with farmers to monitor and manage habitats so that beneficial organisms take care of pests and disease
Our mission is to develop and offer learning opportunities that promote ecologically based pest management. We start with practical strategies that restore biodiversity in soil and aerial food webs. We work mainly with farmers to monitor and manage habitats so that beneficial organisms take care of pests and disease
The Organic Cotton Site
Dedicated to all the farmers, manufacturers, activists, retailers and others who are devoting their energies to making organic cotton a viable agricultural and economic alternative.
World Agroforestry Centre
Put simply, agroforestry is using trees on farms. The World Agroforestry Centre defines agroforestry as a dynamic, ecologically based, natural resources management system that, through the integration of trees on farms and in the agricultural landscape, diversifies and sustains production for increased social, economic and environmental benefits for land users at all levels.
World Wide Opportunities to Organic Farm
The International WWOOF Association is dedicated to helping those who would like to volunteer on organic farms internationally.
American Farmland Trust
Since our founding in 1980, American Farmland Trust has helped win permanent protection for over a million acres of American farmland. Our hard work and sound strategies unite farmers, environmentalists and policymakers. We have three strategies for saving America's farmland
Rincon-Vitova Insectaries
We provide programs to control key pests of garden, greenhouse, farm and stable. We distribute D-Vac vacuum insect sampling equipment, our own backpack biocontrol applicator, and safe, non-toxic pest control materials and equipment.
The Garden Helper
Gardening and landscape advice and tips Gardening help for the beginner as well as for the veteran gardener
The Land Institute
When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited.
By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.
By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.
Vertical Farm
The concept of indoor farming is not new, since hothouse production of tomatoes, a wide variety of herbs, and other produce has been in vogue for some time. What is new is the urgent need to scale up this technology to accommodate another 3 billion people. An entirely new approach to indoor farming must be invented, employing cutting edge technologies. The Vertical Farm must be efficient (cheap to construct and safe to operate). Vertical farms, many stories high, will be situated in the heart of the world's urban centers. If successfully implemented, they offer the promise of urban renewal, sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply (year-round crop production), and the eventual repair of ecosystems that have been sacrificed for horizontal farming.