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I Was Wrong About Chicken Feather Sexing Technique

Determining the sex of a chick by the feathers doesn’t always work in the 2nd and 3rd generation. It is Year …

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Food Forest Walkthrough, Year 3 – What Worked and What Didn’t

Permaculture – Your Plants Will Tell You What They Want by Thriving…Or Not In my previous article, How I created a …

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Chicken Feather Sexing Techniques – Year 2

How to tell a chick’s sex – is it a pullet (female) or a cockerel (male) We have a new batch …

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How I Created a Food Forest – from Design to Delivery

Permaculture Orchard from Design to Delivery Chestnuts, apples, hazelnuts, asparagus, herbs like Wormwood and mint, comfrey, blackberries, Milpa garden beds, and …

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A Perfect Day – Sometimes it’s the Little Things that Make the Perfect Day

Editor’s Note: As Perpend related in Ep. 14 of Thriving the Future Podcast, his Perfect Day looks like a fairly average …

How I created an Apple Guild – Permaculture

Turn a corner of your garden into Hassle-Free Permaculture Perennial Production Look at this picture. What do you see? A mess …

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