Permaculture in action: A home rocket-stove greenhouse produces fresh vegies in Alberta winters

[JohnyCanuck]

See the full 15min video at: http://www.geofflawton.com/fe/73750-a-canadian-urban-garden

[PotatoChip]

1. This is great, JC! Thank you.

For anyone who would like a little more of an introduction to Permaculture (or just enjoy the subject matter), here is a well done 50 minute BBC video on it:

[JohnyCanuck]

5. Thanks for posting that link to the BBC documentary

Here's another video you might like:
Soil -- from dirt to lifeline: Fred Kirschenmann at TEDxManhattan

Fred Kirschenmann has been involved in sustainable agriculture and food issues for most of his life. He currently serves as both a Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, and as President of the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, New York. He also still provides management over site of his family's 2,600 acre organic farm in south central North Dakota. He was recently named as one of the first ten James Beard Foundation Leadership Awards which recognizes visionaries in creating more healthful, more sustainable, and safer food systems. He is the author of a book of essays which track the development of his thought over the past 30 years; Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays by a Farmer Philosopher, published by the University of Kentucky Press.

[PotatoChip]

6. Very informative. I enjoyed that. Thank you. (nt)

[zeemike]

2. I have watched many of the permaculture videos...they are great.

Geoff Lawton is a hero of that movement IMO.
It is the best way to dispense with the corporate farming and the damage they do to the environment.
K&R

[Old Nick]

3. More than just Bitumen

DURec

[jtuck004]

4. This is really timely. Thank you n/t