Category Archives: Sustainability

Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Planning spaces: working animals into a sustainable permaculture plan

Posted on 21 March 2012 by dlhitzeman

I’ve learned a lot about utilizing the ground for food production over the past few years, and one of the things I have learned is that there is no space, whether it is a garden, a tilled field, or a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Farming: MENF 2011: It takes a village

Posted on 29 September 2011 by dlhitzeman

While it is possible to do, there are very few people who manage to establish complete self-sufficiency, and it is my belief that such an effort is counter-productive and, in many ways, wrong. Perhaps a better term for the effort I advocate is “local-sufficiency” because I believe that it really does take a village to make […] Continue reading →

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