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The 7-Layer Island Backyard
A 20-page guide to a Hawaiʻi garden that looks like a forest, free by email.
Practical regenerative guides for Kauaʻi yards and farms, from Regenesis Kauaʻi.
Soil and Living Mulch
Turning red clay, cinder, coral sand and tough grass into living soil.
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Backyard Nursery
Air layering, grafting, cuttings, divisions and seed saving: grow your own food-forest plants.
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Free guide
A 20-page guide to a Hawaiʻi garden that looks like a forest, free by email.
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12 ready-to-plant guilds for Hawaiʻi yards, with layouts, shopping lists and chop-and-drop timing.
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Air layering, grafting, cuttings, divisions and seed saving: grow your own food-forest plants.
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Turning red clay, cinder, coral sand and tough grass into living soil.
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Feeding the soil through every season in Hawaiʻi: choosing, sowing, managing and ending cover crops in wet, dry and upland areas, without herbicides.
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Managing island pests without harsh sprays, and preserving the harvest all year.
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Rain catchment, gravity drip, swales, greywater and safe water for island gardens.
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Stopping erosion and building soil with a living hedge: choosing sites, laying out contours, planting, care and uses, from backyard slopes to whole watersheds.
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Control and restoration from backyard to island-wide: conventional and regenerative methods side by side, fire-safe landscaping, and replacing grass with something better.
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What you can grow, build and lease on Kauaʻi: a practical landowner, tenant and grower operating manual.
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Chickens and ducks in the tropical food forest: feed trees, rotation, safe coops and healthy flocks.
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Sheep, goats, dairy cows and water buffalo in the food forest: choosing animals, fencing, rotational grazing, tree fodder, health, milk and protecting island streams and forests.
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Natural beekeeping for the food forest: building a hive, getting local bees, gentle inspections, island pests, honey and beeswax.
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Vermiculture from backyard bin to community scale: a tropical handbook for soil regeneration, waste diversion, and food security across Hawaiʻi.
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Raising fish, prawns and plants together in Kauaʻi ponds and tanks: species, backyard builds, farm ponds, water quality, harvest and protecting native wildlife.
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Turning yard waste into living soil: legal ways to make it or buy it, clean-burning methods, bigger machines, useful heat and how to use biochar in the garden.
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Making biochar and energy together with gasification: cooking, hot water, crop drying, farm power, off-grid systems and island self-reliance.
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Turning food scraps and manure into cooking gas and fertilizer: ready-made backyard units, building your own, and farm and community systems.
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Growing clumping timber bamboo, harvesting and protecting it, simple joinery, farm projects with bamboo and local wood, and the case for a local bamboo industry.
A 20-page guide to a Hawaiʻi garden that looks like a forest, free by email.