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While there are numerous practices and concepts, these are some of the main ones:

While there are numerous practices and concepts, these are some of the main ones:

* [[Mulch]] and [[Manure]] [[Fertilizer]]: Chop and Drop Mulching - Sheet mulching, Green manure, [[Cover crop]]

* [[Mulch]] and [[Manure]] [[Fertilizer]]: Chop and Drop Mulching - Sheet mulching, Green manure, [[Cover crop]]

* Earth Works - [[Hugelkultur]], [[Swale]]s, and [[Terrace]]s

* [[Earthmoving|Earth Works]] - [[Hugelkultur]], [[Swale]]s, and [[Terrace]]s

* [[Hugelkultur]] - Volumes of wood buried under [[soil]] to increase [[soil fertility]] and soil's retention of [[water]]. The decomposing wood acts as a wick/sponge when underground thus during [[rain]]y [[season]] the buried wood absorbs enough water to support the crops planted on the raised "hugel bed" throughout the dry season.<ref>[[Paul Wheaton|Wheaton, Paul]]. [http://www.richsoil.com/hugelkultur/ "raised garden beds: hugelkultur instead of irrigation"] Richsoil.com. Accessed December 5, 2014.</ref> Hugelculture is promoted by permaculturalists [[Paul Wheaton]], [[Jack Spirko]], [[Geoff Lawton]], Masanobu Fucuoka, [[Sepp Holzer]], and many others.<ref>Hemenway, Toby (2009). Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture. Chelsea Green Publishing. pp. 84-85. ISBN 978-1-60358-029-8.</ref><ref>Feineigle, Mark. [http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/04/hugelkultur-composting-whole-trees-with-ease/#more-6825 "Hugelkultur: Composting Whole Trees With Ease"]. Permaculture Research Institute of Australia. Accessed December 5, 2014.</ref>

* [[Hugelkultur]] - Volumes of wood buried under [[soil]] to increase [[soil fertility]] and soil's retention of [[water]]. The decomposing wood acts as a wick/sponge when underground thus during [[rain]]y [[season]] the buried wood absorbs enough water to support the crops planted on the raised "hugel bed" throughout the dry season.<ref>[[Paul Wheaton|Wheaton, Paul]]. [http://www.richsoil.com/hugelkultur/ "raised garden beds: hugelkultur instead of irrigation"] Richsoil.com. Accessed December 5, 2014.</ref> Hugelculture is promoted by permaculturalists [[Paul Wheaton]], [[Jack Spirko]], [[Geoff Lawton]], Masanobu Fucuoka, [[Sepp Holzer]], and many others.<ref>Hemenway, Toby (2009). Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture. Chelsea Green Publishing. pp. 84-85. ISBN 978-1-60358-029-8.</ref><ref>Feineigle, Mark. [http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/04/hugelkultur-composting-whole-trees-with-ease/#more-6825 "Hugelkultur: Composting Whole Trees With Ease"]. Permaculture Research Institute of Australia. Accessed December 5, 2014.</ref>

* [[Food Forest]] - [[Agroforestry]]

* [[Food Forest]] - [[Agroforestry]]