"Your city is a scab on the landscape: sidewalks, roads, parking lots, rooftops—the built environment repels water into sewers & then into the environment. Urban planners have been doing it for centuries, treating stormwater as a nuisance to be diverted away as quickly as possible to avoid flooding. Not only is that a waste of free water, it’s an increasingly precarious strategy, as #climate change worsens #droughts but also supercharges storms, dumping ever more #rainfall on impervious cities.
To the caterpillars that ate the entire vegetable patch in the dead of night, despite deterrents and daily maintenance, I hope the meal was good. #permaculture
Faharetana has been working for sustainable agriculture in the highlands of Madagascar for nine years, maintaining a completely self-sufficient farm using trees as the basis of its agronomic systems
The last preview of the mobile application version of the One Million Voices of Agroecology Digital Platform. We will make a beta version available in March 2024, stay tuned...
FAO in Senegal is supporting young people in the Fatick region to establish their agroecological farm with the main objective of contributing to the promotion of food security, the creation of green jobs in this region and the improvement of youth entrepreneurship and activity on their agricultural holdings.
Almost Heaven Farm is a permaculture training and development center that grows its own food, sells commercially, transforms crops into value-added food products, demonstrates agroecology, teaches permaculture and consults on projects throughout Nepal
Comunidad de Cantagallo has a farm that is an agroecological school for small producers. The idea is to prompt agroecological technology around communities of the farm.
Migombani is building a food forest based on the principles of syntropic farming. They are trying to build a regenerative, climate-smart farming system; and build soil using biomass-derived from weeding and integrate local plants to help support biodiversity.
"Cepagro is an NGO based in southern Brazil, whose mission is is to promote Agroecology in rural and urban areas, looking to food and nutricional security. Our vision is to democratize the production and consumption of real healthy food, in the countryside and in the city. "
"In Cambodia, agroforestry provides many opportunities for farmers to increase their resilience to climate change and improve their livelihoods. It also offers an alternative land-use management system to monocropping systems, as it helps to improve soil fertility and profitability simultaneously."
"The water cycle that shuttles Earth’s most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving loop is in trouble. Climate change has disrupted that cycle’s delicate balance, upsetting how water circulates between the ground, oceans and atmosphere.
The events of 2023 show how significant these disruptions have become. From extreme precipitation and flooding to drought and contaminated water supplies, almost every part of the U.S. faced some consequence of climate change and the shifting availability of water.
The water cycle controls every aspect of Earth’s climate system, which means that as the climate changes, so too does nearly every step of water’s movement on the planet. In some places, the availability of #water is becoming increasingly scarce, while in others, #climate change is intensifying rainfall, #floods & other extreme weather events.
Ecovida PGS Network - INOFO is a small-scale farm that grows organic food through resilient organic agroforestry systems, which is a food production technique based on forestry principles.
> #Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the Northern border of #Senegal to see an innovative land recovery project within the Great Green Wall of Africa that is harvesting rainwater, increasing food security, and rehabilitating the ecosystem.
Esta's Farm Family road-side rain water harvesting Agroecology practice BOOSTS the bio-diverse nature plants library and pharmacy for sustainable availability of biodiversity, food and income.
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Greywater Installer's Course (hybrid on-line & in person)
February 26
Did you know that #Greywater is legal in many places?
It's a great way to recycle household water. You can run your bathwater, sinks, & laundry out to your landscape where the water can be used to safely water your plants instead of pumped away to a treatment plant.
Hurray! Today I've seen the first crocus of the season in my garden.
Such a small flower, and such beauty!
Crocuses are important for bees, because they are among the first flowers to provide nectar and pollen.
that's why I've planted a lot of crocuses along my hedge.
Can the French #wine industry adapt fast enough to #climate change?
“We’re going back to ancient ways.” To deal with erratic frosts, he has begun pruning his vines later in the year, which postpones bud emergence. To cope with drought & high temps, he’s created higher canopies of leaves that provide more shade to the grapes. He works the land with #horses, rather than tractors, to preserve the health of the soil, & 6 years ago he started to plant annual vegetation around the vines to retain winter & spring water into the summer. In the summer, he cuts the annuals back to create “a sponge of #organic matter” that continues to hold water & cool the soil.
More & more French wine-makers are following a similar path. “The more climate-resilient or smart the vineyard is, the better able to adapt to climate change." They’re seeing the importance of regenerative farming that focuses on natural resources & the need to mitigate their impacts." #permaculturehttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02974-y
Thanks @znetwork for publishing this story about Radical Oakland #Permaculture
Permaculture instructor #AndrewMillison journeys to East Oakland, #California, to visit the legendary plant nursery Planting Justice, which primarily hires formerly incarcerated people. They provide a fair wage & benefits to former #prisoners with unbelievable results: a 2% recidivism rate, compared to 60% for the State of California.