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Links to Rod's other web pages
River Roeburn
riverroeburn.weebly.com

Farm Blog Backsbottom Farm is a beautiful organic farm run using Permaculture Principles. See also Backsbottom facebook.

Roeburnscar Eco Holiday Cottage includes full details of wildlife on the farm

Roeburndale camping barn  A remote riverside barn sleeps 16

Middle Wood Trust runs the study centre on the farm. The Charity puts on a series of education courses and runs volunteer weekends (facebook link)


Links to some great permaculture videos.
(You may find some of these don't work as the films are removed from Utube at times. Try searching again for the title. Please let me know by contact form)

Rainbow Valley Farm - A great farm in New Zealand Joe Polaischer


The Global Gardener with Bill Mollison; 
Global Gardener Video Library
Tropics
Drylands
Cool Climates
Urban
One Straw Revolution Fukuoka documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=52&v=8atbgaiekZI

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Environmental Education Media Project Films
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Sepp Holzer  Krammeterhof  The Agro Rebel 

Also Impermanence film 1 with Richard Perkins
Impermanence Film 2
Krammeterhof film

David Holmgren investigating Permaculture www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTUaSelgIlc

Perennial Paradise -with Jeff Lawton by John Liu Film

The Synergistic Garden - film of Emilia Hazelip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy_x5rXq19g

Tony Rinaudo presents an excellent introduction to the Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration Project Model- Desert Restoration  (FMNR PM)    

The Power of Community How Cuba Survived Peak Oil www.youtube.com/watch?v=76F4z4DRafA

2000 year old food forest in Morocco http://youtu.be/hftgWcD-1Nw

Bill Mollison Permaculture Lecture Series, http://www.networkearth.org/perma/culture.html 

A link to lots of good permaculture videos  Global Gardener Video Library

More Permaculture TV and Videos   http://permaculture.tv/about-2/



Seeds of Permaculture Tropical Permaculture https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=15&v=2cr10nOm0xU 
Integral Permaculture Manual 
http://en.permaculturescience.org/

Links to interesting web pages

HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT
Allan Savory: How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change
Using heavy livestock grazing and moving the livestock to mimic the natural movement of livestock with predators. This is bringing life back to desert areas, locking up carbon and increasing the water holding capacity.
http://youtu.be/VWuzjZMF0iI
Occam,s Grazer http://vimeo.com/10794156
Regenerative Agriculture
Richard Perkins designs for Ridgedale, Sweden
Climate and Landform   Water and Access   Trees  Holistic management (Ridgedale April-Oct 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oWKSnNWdmw)
Darren Doherty on regrarianism  Power point talk




Main Permaculture Links

The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia  www.permaculturenews.org has an excellent series of articles and videos. Subjects covered in detail are: Animals, community, design,earthworks,earth resources, events,food, support systems, permaculture projects, plants, soil, water and permaculture authors
. Linked to this is Permacultureglobal.com which connects to worldwide projects and people.

Permaculture Association Britain has a good basic introduction to the Peermaculture Ethics and Principles as well as details of course, LAND permaculture demonstration sites, courses and events. 
Permaculture video list 


Permaculture Magazine - Permanent Publications They have some  articles and videos to view and some great free Ebooks. They have an excellent book, videos and tools shop. They have a list of Permaculture and related courses.
Free E Books

The Permaculture Activist The main American Permaculture publication
Published articles

Gaiacraft Lots of Free permaculture Education information
http://gaiacraft.com/

A good Australian site for Mollison's Principles http://deepgreenpermaculture.com/

http://www.gaiaeducation.net/index.php

http://www.lammas.org.uk/ecovillage/tirygafel.htm

http://www.caemabon.co.uk/

http://www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk/

 

Geoff Lawton has uploaded lots of information and videos on the Permaculture Circle http://start.geofflawtononline.com/permaculturecircle

Urban Permaculture at its best.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9xYPkSjpco

Great Blog from Ireland http://bealtainecottage.com/

http://permaculture-greece.org/

http://www.futurescenarios.org/

http://www.holmgren.com.au/ download E book


Excellent site for free Permaculture related E.Books http://www.small-farm-permaculture-and-sustainable-living.com/free_ebooks_site.html

One Community Global an excellent resource site
http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/site-map/

Robyn Francis links page   http://permaculture.com.au/online/links/categories
and videos   http://permaculture.com.au/online/videos

Chris Evans. Farmers Handbook from Nepal
http://permaculture.org.au/2010/01/06/farmers-handbook/

Garden Africa's training manual.
Growing Health Training Manual (PDF, 31.6mb)
Growing the Living Laboratory - Permaculture for Environmental Education in the NCS from SEED Zambia
http://www.seed.org.za/downloads.php

http://www.permacultureprinciples.com/

Why we should remain GMO free
Seeds of Death film

Worm compost in a tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scUTrypzyY0&feature=player_embedded 

Green Shopping books and free ebooks
http://www.green-shopping.co.uk/books/ebooks/free-ebooks.html

A GLOBAL INVENTORY OF PERENNIAL VEGETABLES
by Eric Toensmeier
also his edible forest garden - persimmon polyculture

http://www.freeandreal.org/ Greece

www.greenspirit.org.uk 

http://permacultureglobal.com/login Worldwide Permaculture Network PRIAustraliahttp

Introduction to Biodynamics Video
http://www.biodynamic.org.uk/about-bdaa/videos/intro-to-biodynamics.html
Biodynamic introduction class
from Oregon Biodynamics http://www.oregonbd.org/Class/class.htm
Homeodynamic cultivation handbook  http://www.moodie.biz/pdfs/HomeoHandbook.pdf
Homeodynamics http://considera.org/consintro.html

Paul wheaton Hugelbed video


No Dig gardening see Charles Dowding,s video

Global resource Alliance - some great work on Permaculture and healing in Africa

http://globalresourcealliance.org/resources

Agroforestry in Brazil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7h-JbaJjn4
Lost Crops of Africa
http://www.gubaswaziland.org/resources/index.php?sid=20

Apios Institute
Temperate polyculture
http://apiosinstitute.org/

Toby Hemenway Ecological permaculture gardens http://tobyhemenway.com/
Rico Zook has a good list of links from his worldwide experience of Permaculture
www.i.permaculture.org

Seed saving  E Book

Agroecology - A Farmers Perspective www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO7e5yrQuEI
A permaculture design course Handbook http://treeyopermacultureedu.wordpress.com/

Common Circle Education offers free permaculture design courses http://www.openpermaculture.com/
Inspiration Green a good place to find links on keyhole beds, Hugel beds, underground greenhouse, mass rocket stoves and lots more 
http://www.inspirationgreen.com/

What plants talk about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7MOe5clOtI
Our Seeds one hour film from 11 countries Seed saving Film

Designing
Useful discussion on realising your limitations with design work http://www.permaculture.co.uk/videos/swale-or-not-swale-david-holmgren-dan-palmer-darren-doherty 

Composting
Composting details from from Washington State University

http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/compost/fundamentals/needs_carbon_nitrogen.htm
Good home composting video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1kIpCBD3UI&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1VrYhr3P-CK-UTh02gKDy3FoleTxDXwcSHwNWXP2big4uI4la9IcaO_6A
Charles Dowding Making compost form garden and other wastes

Fungi

Paul Stamets - The Future is Fungi [how to save the planet]    Lecture

Small Space Gardens
Bag Gardens - Sack Garden - How to Make - Uganda

Some permaculture design images. Mainly from Bill's Designer's Manual http://imgur.com/a/aTPS8/all


Greenhouse types

Walipini underground greenhouse  A manual is available at  Benson Institute
Keder greenhouse We have used Keder bubble plastic on our home made wooden bent frames.

     
Rocky Mountain Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-AzpydtlGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV9UuCaYKsU
Greenhouse heating using Jean Pain's brushwood compost system

http://www.permacultureactivist.net/PeterBane/Jean_Pain.html

Livestock
Tree fodder analysis   www.voederbomen.nl/nutritionalvalues/?soort_nl=42


Understanding Water
Water for the Recovery of the Climate - A New Water Paradigm http://www.waterparadigm.org/indexen.php?web=./home/homeen.html
Viktor Schauberger - Comprehend and Copy Nature www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItsSYwTSnTY#t=12

Gerald Pollack: The Fourth Phase of Water (an excellent book)  Lecture
Tamera water retention landscape Film
Article by Bernd Walter Mueller, head of the ecology departement of Tamea
The  Water Wizard book on Schauberger E Book

Extraordinary Nature of Water - Callum Coats Pt 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC3yv-KwD_A
Callum Coats Pt 2   www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yKQD_vxADg             
Callum Coats Pt 3   www.youtube.com/watch?v=alFek6F4tgA     
Callum Coats Pt 4   www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ2xTDLbnY4
Callum Coats Pt 5   www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHoBPBSqQa0
Callum Coats Pt 6   www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s0cSK5M_RU
Otman Grober River Cycles
Brad Lancaster Water Harvesting in Arizona   
and Rainwater Harvesting
An Introduction to Induced Meandering:A Method for Restoring Stability to Incised Stream Channels by Bill Zeedyk
A useful flood map for UK shows all the side streams
See map site

SWALES
Helping water to spread slow and sink with swales a good discussion  re keyline swales between Lawton and Doherty.

Swale action https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422503916&v=UFeylOa_S4c&x-yt-cl=85027636

Swales at work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ55w6K70Dk
The effect of swales video


Water HydroPower

Small home made hydro in 5 gallon bucket https://www.engineeringforchange.org/static/content/Energy/S00070/5%20Gallon%20Bucket%20Build%20Manual.pdf 

Wind Power Self build
v3power.co.uk   windempowerment.org 
Achimedes type wind turbine http://dearchimedes.com/

Soil


Symphony of the Soil Film http://permaculturenews.org/2015/04/21/symphony-of-the-soil/  


Biochar

Biochar and cook stoves design put the carbon back into the soil  http://www.soil-carbon-regeneration.co.uk/
Excellent details of Kon-tiki Kiln http://www.ithaka-journal.net/kon-tiki-die-demokratisierung-der-pflanzenkohleproduktion?lang=en  
Nepalese biochar project http://www.biochar-journal.org/itjo/media/doc/1431429366271.pdf

Different animals in Permaculture

Love for bee coloni
https://keepingwiththebees.wordpress.com/making-a-perone-hive/overview/es http://gaiabees.com/ 
Perone Bee Hive
https://keepingwiththebees.wordpress.com/making-a-perone-hive/overview/
Natural Bee keeping http://www.naturalbeekeepingtrust.org/

Aquaponics
Duck aquaponics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOWFvvYH2CU#t=57
Permaculture and Aquaponics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=94&v=jeZQJLbVnWA  

Fish plant system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0Go2OFInj8

Natural Swimming Pools
http://www.biotop-natural-pool.com/referenz-teiche.html

Business innovation
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation stimulating the circular economy
The Circular Economy
Lecture on Biomimicry by Janine Benyus   Asknature.org examples of biomimicry
Biomimicry of fish used for wind turbines
 

 

Natural Bee Keeping
Warre hive design http://warre.biobees.com/warre_hive_plans_metric.pdf
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COMMUNITIES
Living a simple more community rooted lifestyle. The possibility alliance.

The Permaculture Kitchen
Building a Cob Oven
A small home made wood gasifier stove
Solar cookers Solar Cooker Plans.
Solar Wall Oven Barbara Kerr
Journey to forever
Stoves newsletter
http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/
Improved cook stove in Nepal  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhzOK5GjqIA    
Zeer clay pot vegetable evaporative cooler

Haiti Rocket Stove- Great details on clay mix http://www.rechoroket.com/Home.html
Good video for building Rocket stove http://www.diy-review.com/kzaDaHowTo622uHL/How-to-Build-A-Small-Rocket-Stove.html
Biochar and cook stoves design put the carbon back into the soil  http://www.soil-carbon-regeneration.co.uk/
5 different cooking methods and how to build them http://www.aprovecho.org/lab/index.php?option=com_rubberdoc&view=doc&id=115&format=raw
Aprovecho documents available http://www.aprovecho.org/lab/pubs/arcpubs
Top Lit Up Draft TLUD cook stoves - a good link page http://www.drtlud.com/
Elsa Stove http://www.blucomb.com/product/elsa-blueprint-pdf/  Utube 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55r5DmvT3XE

Samuchit ELFD Sampada biomass stove https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93ui2nNWT1Y
DIY: How to make a backpacking wood gasifier stove  

Recycling!!

The Landfill Orchestra a short film clip.

Climate Change video

How to Boil a Frog  - Climate change film  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1455659/


Home - Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate.  Film - Home  
Climate Change 2013 working group video


Different Building Techniques
Inspirational Photos from Build Naturally - Sigi Koko
http://buildnaturally.blogspot.co.uk/  
https://www.facebook.com/buildnaturally/photos/

Earthship Construction rammed soil into tyres. Film The Garbage Warrior.
Earthbag dome buildings
http://www.movement-of-life-cyprus.org/data/NicosiaTalkFinal-2014.pdf
Earthbag Construction  Eco-Dome
StrawBale Building
Hempcrete
Straw Clay walls
Light earth construction
Air-Crete domes 

Peter Post Buildings Peter Cowman, Econospace  Frame building http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFZ-_6czIfk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiOtWQxlpkg
Ben Law's timber and straw house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaq1yVsjG1M
  

PassiveHouse design
Wove
n structures for refugee tents http://www.abeerseikaly.com/weavinghome.php
General links to green building techniques Green Home
Low impact homes - ecovillages http://livinginthefuture.org/
Volunteer with buildings thePOOSH.org
Principles of EcoDesign The Yellow House

TOOLS
Crosscut Saws http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base_images/zp/crosscut.pdf
Using hand tools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-wXYgwjcqw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekyJ8pMbTcE#t=10 

Woodland Crafts
Build your own shave horse vice www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjhWgvxhrg8&feature=share 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjK5z639cUE


Home heating systems
Hot water from copper coil above a rocket stove. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IRLVCJ1olA#t=250
Mass rocket stove

Solar air heating using aluminum cans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRZvAAqzXIw

Transition Towns   https://vimeo.com/8029815

Money

Video  What if money didn't matter?


Download The Moneyless Manifesto Book
Understanding money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUlC6eso-mg 
Money systems
Bangla-Pesa Animation - Empowering a Grassroots Economy http://koru.or.ke/Bangla-Pesa-Dream-Nov 

Green shopping - some guideline help   http://www.shopsleuth.com/resources/green-shopping-guide

Cooperation v competition 
Enoughness: Restoring balance to the economy

ECOCIDE
Support the campaign to make new Ecocide Legislation
ECOCIDE

Book crossing - send your book on a journey of adventure http://www.bookcrossing.com/

Music and Permaculture
The Formidable Vegetable Sound System - Yield

Disaster and Refugee relief
Composting human manure.   Humanure Compost Training in Haiti Part 2 of 3 .   
Water filters.  Water and Arsenic filter


Books about Permaculture
Ten books recommended by Permaculture Association



Appropriate medicine outside the multinational drug companies.


Abha Light Foundation Using homeopathy and natural medicine in Africa http://abhalight.org/products/index.html
Moxafrica Using moxibustion to help TB  and Aids 

http://www.moxafrica.org/index.html


Global Resource alliance Malaria treatment using neem tincture and MMS
http://www.globalresourcealliance.org/malaria-control-programs


Why We Need Permaculture  Feel the pain
Ranjan Ramanayake's The Earth is alive  video   

JAPAN NUCLEAR CRISIS: THE DANGERS OF RADIATION. DR. HELEN CALDICOTT.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMmaduq-5bw
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