Have skills in permaculture? Always dreamt of working and living in the real Africa? Want to be part of a groundbreaking initiative? The Manda Wilderness Community Trust (www.mandawilderness.org) is seeking an active, adventurous individual to help make its experimental farm in northeastern Moza...

On ABC Landline last week, there was an update of the Western Australian Sandalwood Industry (do not despair globe trotters, as there is an Indian version that even better for wood production, but does not provide edible nuts), and it struck me that while it would be an annual crop, it would al...

We are carving a permaculture homestead out of a woodlot. Lots of edges, small fields and ponds.

HIPPOFARM is a three-fold integrated project to develop a poney-club, permaculture garden and ecolodge centered around the principles of resilience, growing organic food and using local building techniques.

The Permaculture movement has a well-educated and passionate following of dedicated practitioners.  It also is terribly misunderstood by mainstream modern culture.  The term ‘permaculture’ may indeed be one of the most misunderstood terms thrown around by well-meaning environmentalists.  I think ...

For anyone looking for an opportunity to start doing permaculture for a living through an earth based regenerative business, with some consistent professional mentoring, I am offering a farming/permaculture business mentoring situation on my 6 acre homestead in Ashfield.  It is a year to 2 year l...

On Friday the 28th, Dany and I went down early as we decided to join Ona’s gathering in Big Bay in order to finally meet her, new ‘white people’ and visit the area and his inhabitants. Having some days off from our routine to enjoy the beauty of this island paradise was actually something we ...

By Katy Faye Desmond On the first morning of the 10-day Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course at the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast, teacher Tom Kendall stands before myself and nine other wide-eyed students and takes a broad step to his left. “By this end of this cou...

Now running Forest Gardening workshops once a month in Northland, NZ and selling perennial forest garden plants. Woohoo!! See http://www.theforestgarden.co.nz/ for details.

You tube is full of rumors and gems of information, and this one came from the highly valuable ‘Grow Your Own Greens’ channel. When John visited the Permaculture Skill Center, and about 31 minutes in, he talks about a new find for him, an apple that is true to type when grown from seed. The Anton...

Project for local food worldwide. Looking for some farm near your area. Social network for many users, seeds exchange, work exchange, local shop. Food to your home

Around two decades ago, life found me hanging out with friends at their house. It was the usual sort of hang out in those days which meant talking rubbish, partaking of the occasional ale, making up rubbish plans to take on the world, but mostly it just involved us talking pure rubbish. The m...

Diseño Regenerativo de Keyline, Agricultura Ecológica, Bioconstrucción y Tecnologías Apropiadas, todo en medio de la naturaleza de la V Región.

Rehabilitación de suelos, huerta biointensiva, frutales, cultivos colgantes, compostaje, lombricultura y microacuacultura. Todo en el patio de mi casa, en medio de la capital.

I am quite happy to announce that we have an association with Madeen Architecture and Construction, LLC  with offices in Durango, CO and Vail, CO. Greg Madeen has 35+ years experience in healthy, sustainable design, and construction.  We are very excited at the prospect of working with and learni...

Permaculture demonstration site in Maneadero, Baja California Mexico.

The Research Institute for a Sustainable Environment (RISE) is about to start our next round of rooftop garden experiments!  We are working hard to figure out the very best methods for sustainably producing food on urban roofs in Egypt. In order to do so, we need to replace the growing medium (so...

How to Make Your Own Tallow Keeping with one of the quintessential homestead values of frugality and the permaculture concept of closing waste streems, we decided to have our butcher set aside all of the trimmed fat from our grass finished beef from this year.  Now a person might wonder why woul...