Camp Altiplano Volunteer Experience
A week has passed since my adventure in La Muela, an impressive mountain in the south of Spain, near Veléz-Blanco. For three weeks I participated in a reforestation project that …
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Experiencing a Healthy Ecosystem in the Spanish Altiplano
I have been in the remote area of the Murcian Altiplano for two months. It has been a life changing experience, living in an area so degraded. Every day the …
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Why Catch the Rain?
I live in a temperate coastal rainforest on the eastern Pacific Rim. We have more water than most, but it all comes in winter. Our cold inland sea has four …
Camping on the trail of restoration
I have memories of camping in the High Sierra of California as a child with family friends. We carried extra food on a donkey named “pepper”, and the bears left …
Permaculture farming and livelihood
There has been a lot of recent discussion about permaculture and livelihoods, especially as regards food growing, self-sufficiency and also being able to make some money. In early 2017 I …
It’s the organic matter that really matters
Over years and decades of studying ecology and climate related subjects I’ve come to understand that it is the percentages and total amounts of vegetation and the percentages and total …
Why are we mixing food production and restoration?
What does a flock of chickens have to do with ecological restoration? People working on restoration of ecosystems may find it strange that the early stages of restoration camping are …
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