It is with deep regret that I write of Bruce Charles “Bill” Mollison’s passing from this earth. I never had the personal pleasure of meeting Bill, this is one of the rare joys I will never be able to experience…
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What does it really mean to be green, everyone seems to have a different idea of what green is? We use the term green for everything such as buildings to drinks, home furnishings to laundry detergents, electricity to mouthwash. Let’s…
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Goats love Silvopasture My son Joel is embarking on his dream of creating a permaculture homestead for himself in the Nashville TN area. His recent purchase of the land was only the first step. While taking his Permaculture Designers Course…
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Responsible water stewardship is an important topic that many people have not considered. Recently the Natural Resources Defense Council rated Ohio worst in the nation for water quality, worst in the nation. This is one distinction I do not want…
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I have three millennial’s that I call my sons, like most parents I am concerned for their futures wanting them to have more than we did growing up. So I have tried to study their patterns of communications, buying, their…
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Weekend Classes Due to busy schedules and the strong interest in a weekend class, Great Lakes Permaculture will be providing a weekend set of classes starting in April 5/6, 12/13, 26/27, May 3/4, 10/11. The classes will be on Saturday…
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I am always looking for information to provide clients regarding their site specifics, sometimes at remote locations this can be quite a chore. This handy little program provides sunrise and sunset along with solar path information on a variety of…
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Figs are an ancient fruit that stir strong emotions with many immigrant groups that settled to this country, but the love of this delectable fruit goes back in time much further than a few hundred years. One of the earliest…
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Hansen cherry bush is marketed as a delicious edible landscaping bush which can be used in many urban settings where you wan to blend in a little with the neighbors, but you still want to be creating an edible landscaping…
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I have met people that could kill a plant just by looking at it, and yet they are the same people that would love to have a nice garden with fresh produce for their families to enjoy through the entire…
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