Well, we’ve finished our first full year on our new property. We still love it, and we’re still excited about all the possibilities, so I think that’s a good sign. My partner has had to do the bulk of the ‘heavy lifting’, and he’s still enthusiastic, so I’m hopefully optimistic that he’s not go...

Hard times mould and shape the world. You can go to bed one night blissfully unaware of changes in the wind, only to then wake up the next morning and be confronted by an uncaring force moulding and shaping of your personal world. And I use that word “uncaring” in the most literal sense because c...

Ben Falk, author of "The Resilient Farm and Homestead", refers to cold temperate regions such as his Vermont homestead as "storage climates."  In other words, long daylight hours in the summers create a glut of surplus food for the fall harvest, while the long winters that follow are linked to "l...

La Ferme de Sourrou is a site developed over 25 years, managed by two people who have incorporated permaculture principles into land management, animal husbandry, production methods and food and energy autonomy.

La Ferme de Sourrou is a site developed over 25 years, managed by two people who have incorporated permaculture principles into land management, animal husbandry, production methods and food and energy autonomy.

Aloha! I’m happy to announce that we are about to begin activating the site. We will be opening up the gates at noon this Sunday for the first time (Nov 1, 12pm) for a site walk thru and site tour.  Please see the latest issue of The Hayes Valley Voice (attached). It includes th...

Some time ago, I documented some experiments I did establishing willow and caragana cuttings using various methods.  The short-term result of those experiments was that it appeared cuttings driven directly into the sod along my fenceline with NO particular preparation of either the site or the c...

Some time ago, I documented some experiments I did establishing willow and caragana cuttings using various methods.  The short-term result of those experiments was that it appeared cuttings driven directly into the sod along my fenceline with NO particular preparation of either the site or the c...

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Before Shot: A front lawn with a slope and zero productivity Our mission: Create a zone 1 keyhole garden on contour that the animals can't wreak havoc on. Oh and don't block the view. The original, rough plan: To begin, we broke up the lawn with the digger on the tractor and laid out logs...

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Integrated Pest Management WEB During my last few co-teaching session at several PDC´s in India and Spain, i developed the Integrated Pest Management Web. My original inspiration happened during a course in India with Rico Zook. My aim with this approach is to visually show the relationships...

Here are a few pictures of our 3rd PDC in Spain,Alta Garrotxa area together with Rico Zook and Soil Sun Soul Team at a beautiful location ,Mas Pujou. Thanks to everyone involved and enjoy the pictures. Thanks for the photos to: Fi , Kate & RomanMusic by : Sun Hayland

Hello Food Forest Friends! At long last, the Festival Beach Food Forest will become a reality this weekend with Earthworks and next weekend with Tree Planting. This project is collaborative effort of the Festival Beach Community Garden, Austin Permaculture Guild, Tree Folks, the city of Austin, ...

This is not a big land, rather, I cal it a small peace of a Nature in Ger area. Ger area is a sub urban part of Ulaanbaatar city where people live in a small peace of private land/yards. Unfortunetale most of them have no trees, grasses, plants at their lands. Ger area covers about 20.000 hectars...

A long time ago in a mountain range far, far away…. Well, to be totally honest it was only a few weeks back, but it does seem like a long time ago that the new chicken enclosure “Chooktopia” project was completed. The completion of the new chicken enclosure was a real setback for the Rebel Rode...

Food forest on a 1.3 acre of land with fruit trees, ponds, terraces, animals, rainwater harvesting, etc.