Nearly all of Earth’s organisms communicate with each other in one way or another, from the nods and dances and squeaks and bellows of animals, through to the invisible chemical signals emitted...
The unprecedented bushfires that struck the east coast of Australia this summer killed an estimated one billion animals across millions of hectares. Scorched landscapes and animal corpses brought...
After moving to Western North Carolina and the Blue Ridge Mountains, Emma and I became fixated with mushrooms. Our life here was the first opportunity we’d had since becoming permaculturalists ...
Temperatures are starting to suggest that autumn is arriving here in North Carolina. It’s teetering between summer swelter in the day and chilly autumn mornings. I wake up looking for a blanket...
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2019/10/03/maitake-mushrooms/
Professor Claude Bourguinon, co-founder of the Laboratoire Analyses Microbiologiques Sols (LAMS), an independent soil testing laboratory helping farmers understand their soil and how to sustaina...
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2019/02/02/where-is-the-world/
Australia has one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world, with 38% of Australian households owning dogs. Dogs improve the quality of our lives, and studies show that exposure to dogs ...
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2018/12/28/dont-waste-your-dogs-poo-compost-it/
A common problem when just starting a garden is dealing with the fact that we’ve not had time to condition the soil, fostering it into something heaving with fertility. Or, maybe we just aren�...
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2018/07/14/make-instant-garden-beds/
What do straw, paint brushes and the human blood circularity system have in common? The answer is capillaries, very narrow, long tubes. It is this physical characteristic of straw which g...
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2018/06/30/straw-bale-gardens/
If something is working, you might as well continue to use it, as the saying goes. Reishi mushroom powder has been used by Asian cultures as a natural medicine for at least 2,000 years. The Reish...
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2017/09/20/health-benefits-raising-reishi-mushrooms/
The Chinese have been using shiitake mushrooms as a nutritional and medicinal food for over 6,000 years. One of the most well-known of the edible mushroom, shiitakes have recently been discovered...
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2017/08/10/raising-shiitake-mushrooms-inexpensive-delicacy/
Emma and I arrived in North Carolina about two months ago, right around the height of morel season, and that was the buzz. Morels are a very popular springtime mushroom around these parts and oth...
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2017/07/07/mushrooms-foraging-7-ways-get-started/
Mushrooms aren’t plants or animals. In fact, mushrooms are within their very own kingdom known as Fungi. They appear to grow like plants, yet lack the many key components of plants such as root...
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2017/04/04/unique-little-creatures/