In the ongoing conversation about climate change and carbon, a lot is being said about large-scale “solutions,” because many people seem to think that only large-scale strategies can deal with a problem as large as the one we face. Without devaluing the contributions that could be made by large-scale projects, I’d like to take a […]
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Reflections on ‘Guilds’
When I took my permaculture design course several years ago, I learned about creating ‘guilds’ of plants. The concept may have been explained more thoroughly at the time, but what I took away and remembered was merely the technique of planting clumps of various perennials beneath and around larger trees. But it’s only recently that […]
Choosing an Exterior Plaster for your Earthen Home by: Dirt Craft Natural Building
Keeping Your Building Dry Water is clever. Despite all of our best attempts to keep it out of buildings it seems that it invariably gets in. Conventional builders try to thwart water infiltration by wrapping homes in plastic, inside and out. Moisture exits a building through windows, or more likely through some mechanical, electricity consuming […]