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	<title>The Pool Room &#187; Permaculture</title>
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		<title>Family Bonding Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was a huge family bonding day, although we didn&#8217;t all spend it together. Megan and Grace went up to Sydney with the Peterborough school for the Rotary Club of Turramurra and Pathfinders Jumbo Flight. Qantas donated the use of a jumbo jet, pilots and cabin crew donated their time, and Rotarian volunteers provided ground [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Illawarra Super Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have signed up for the Sustainable Illawarra Super Challenge, and Monday night was the official launch of the programme. The idea is for 120 households across the Illawarra to spend the next 12 months moving towards a more sustainable lifestyle. Sustainable Illawarra provides participants with information, workshops, guidance and resources (as well as some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wicking Beds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: I have moved this post to my other blog, Green-Change.com, as it fits in better with that blog&#8217;s theme of suburban sustainability. For futher updates check out Wicking Beds &#8211; Water Efficient Gardening. A wicking garden bed uses a waterproof container or layer below the soil surface to form an underground reservoir of water. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Mushrooms From Mushroom Compost</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July I took my trailer up to the mushroom farm to get a load of mushroom compost. It was $2.60/bag, and I got 16 bags for $40. I was really just thinking of using it on the garden as a mulch layer at that stage. When I got home, though, I realised there were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chicken Ark</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An updated version of this post is available over on my suburban green living blog, Green Change: Chicken Ark Plans When thinking about a coop for our chickens to live in, we wanted something practical, non-permanent, and space-efficient. Looking around the net, the &#8216;chicken ark&#8217; or &#8216;chicken tractor&#8217; concept seemed the best for our needs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Good Podcast</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It might sound daggy, but lately I&#8217;ve been watching the old BBC series The Good Life (a friend at work lent me the DVDs). Megan thinks I&#8217;m getting old. You&#8217;ve got to admit, though, that there&#8217;s something about Barbara Good (Felicity Kendal). It never sat right with me that that Tom guy wound up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: How To Make Compost (Milkwood)</title>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2008/03/video-how-to-make-compost-milkwood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another great video series from Milkwood, this one explaining how to make compost without too much effort. Don&#8217;t these videos have great music? I also really like the way they use the &#8220;Benny Hill effect&#8221; of speeding up the video, so you get a good idea of what they&#8217;re doing without needing to sit around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Soil Food Web &#8211; And Nature&#8217;s Soil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notes Manzano Mountains, Central New Mexico, USA Michael Martin Melendrez, founder of Soil Secrets Michael is also well known for his coining the phrase and writing the first paper ever on the Soil Food Web titled &#8216;Soil Ecology and the Soil Food Web&#8217; in 1974 sugar maples, drop leaves to provide a protective mulch we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Fallen Fruit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting video about picking public fruit. Fallen Fruit is a group that maps local fruit trees and encourages sharing through group plantings and &#8220;forages&#8221; take people on walking forages to collect public fruit growing in the neighbourhood fruit growing on public property or hanging over fences onto public property is &#8220;public fruit&#8221; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Edible Estates</title>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2008/02/video-edible-estates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch the video at KCET, Edible Estates. Notes why are people growing lawn? Fritz Haeg converts homeowners&#8217; front lawns into working vegetable gardens Descanso Gardens invited Fritz to build a demo garden to show people what he does one third of the garden is planted as plain lawn two-thirds is planted as an edible vegetable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: How To Grow Figs From Cuttings (Milkwood)</title>
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		<comments>http://www.pool-room.com/2008/02/video-how-to-grow-figs-from-cuttings-milkwood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just discovered the Milkwood site &#8211; &#8220;Two city kids quit their jobs, pull up stumps and journey to a remote, empty, block of land to start an ultra low impact lifestyle from scratch&#8221;. Now these are people I&#8217;d love to meet! Kirsten Bradley and Nick Ritar are documenting their trials and tribulations via both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Permaculture Trio</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video is really three different views of permaculture gardens rolled into one. Notes below the video. Forest Gardening with Robert Hart Robert Hart was born on 1 April 1913, and died on 7 March 2000. He was a vegan (eating around 90% raw food) who took up farming at Wenlock Edge, in Shropshire. garden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: The Permaculture Concept &#8211; Bill Mollison</title>
		<link>http://www.pool-room.com/2008/02/video-the-permaculture-concept-bill-mollison/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pool-room.com/2008/02/video-the-permaculture-concept-bill-mollison/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first post in my new category, Permaculture. I&#8217;m going to link to and provide notes for videos, books and other resources as I read and learn more. And maybe I&#8217;ll document some of my own projects when I get some time. If you&#8217;re not sure what it is, Wikipedia has a good [...]]]></description>
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