Food Foresting

[nomadguy]

keep dreaming!... and dream of it closer and closer as you go.

[nomadguy]

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2j6xIGlsgs

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Domestic uses for wood ash - permaculture.org.au


Food forests part 3 closing-the-loop - permaculture.org.au

ref - http://permaculture.org.au/

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Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni1Jat86jIM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpKr9fXa9cg - part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3AclFaj6sY - part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znF__qkkx8k - part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qi82Hujwj0 - part 5

[Cjay]

Posted by wolf_rt (here)

Posted by Cjay (here)
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Companion Planting Guide

IDEP’s Companion Planting Guide
Click here for full PDF
(Includes natural insect repellent tips)

Sometimes you end up wishing you had a resource at hand to make it easier to apply Permaculture principles. This was the case for myself when it came time to start thinking about beneficial groupings of plants and those groupings that do not go well together.

This is what I often find lacking with the current publications on offer from PRI and from those in the community. There is a lot of good knowledge locked up that could benefit so many of us in applying permaculture principles.

A simple A3 or A4 information sheet or booklet of a small number of pages is easy to mentally digest and take in and very handy to have as a reference, either printed out and hung up on the wall or on the computer when we sit down and start thinking about designing our gardens or food systems.

Full details: http://permaculture.org.au/2010/07/3...lanting-guide/

IDEP A3 Poster Chart (external pdf): http://www.permaculture.org.au/resou..._Com_Plant.pdf

these links seem to be broked, you dont have a full size copy of that chart by any chance do you?

Sorry for the very slow reply. It's here now: http://www.permaculture.org.au/resources_files/Poster_GDN_Com_Plant.pdf

[nomadguy]

"Weston A Price discovered that all the indigenous people he studied were getting 10 x the fat soluble vitamins and 4 x the minerals compared to a Western diet of the same time (1930’s). He also discovered that although they all ate very differently, they all followed the same principles in their diets, and all of them were extremely healthy. They knew how to eat to maintain their DNA so that they were extremely healthy and they passed on strong genes.

These were the principles he discovered they each followed:

no refined or denatured foods
all traditional cultures consumed some sort of animal protein and fat
all diets contains 4 x the minerals and 10 x the fat soluble vitamins ( A, D and K and E)
in all traditional cultures some animal products were eaten raw
total fat content of all traditional diets varied from 30 – 80% of daily calorie intake and only around 4 % of that was polyunsaturated oil. The balance was saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids
traditional diets had a high food-enzyme content from raw meat and dairy and also fermented fruit vegetables and meat/fish
seeds grains and nuts were soaked, sprouted, fermented or naturally leavened in order to neutralize antinutrients in these foods such as phytic acid, enzyme inhibitors, tannins and complex carbohydrates
traditional diets contained nearly equal amounts of omega -6 and omega -3
all primitive diets contained salt
traditional cultures consumed animal bones, usually in the form of gelatin rich bone broths
traditional cultures made provisions for the health of future generations by providing special nutrient rich foods for parents to be, pregnant women and growing children."

Ref-
Urban design designing for health

[nomadguy]

I feel this is an excellent documentary to show us how WE can indeed change things... and quickly

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBLZmwlPa8A

[Feren]

This is a great thread. Thank you so much for your contribution, Nomadguy. The art of growing our own food is of major importance for the evolution of human beings.
Cheers!
Ferén

[sandy]

Wow nomadguy!!

What a great documentary that needs to go viral in my opinion. I'm not to computer savvy but I'm going to try and put it on my face book page and hope others pick it up and pass it on over and over again