The reason for this is to give me all the skills I need to become self-sufficient and go off-grid. For me that also includes basic home repair, which I know nothing about.  This was the logical starting point. Hands down the best money I have spent this year, was the Power Tools for Beginners co...

Margaret Roberts is a walking legend! She runs courses at her Herbal Centre and one day when I grow up, I wanna be just like her.  She’s in her 70’s and more vibrant that I have ever been in my life. We attended a Perfumery talk recently, here’s what we learnt: Cold pressed, organic, extra vi...

The adventure continues.  New eggs stand up straight in cells, by day 3 they are lying down in a C shape. Eggs are white and you can see them against the black of the cell.  (The wax goes black with age). New bees first learn and train to walk and fly around the safety of the hive before goin...

The plight of bees globally is pretty common knowledge these days.  It’s something you hear, but not necessarily pay any attention to.  I signed up for a beekeeping course with Walkerville Beekeepers and it’s completely changed the way I look at bees and honey. What an incredible little creature ...

Preserving the Harvest: Lacto-Fermented Kale Kale is one of those polarizing veggies that you hear so much about!  You either love it or hate it, most folks have an opinion once they’ve tried kale.  There is a lot to love about kale (even if you can’t stand the flavor, or texture, or whate...

Education/healing centre to reconnect people with nature, community and themselves.

Here are some photos of the Earthbag building course we held at Sustainalivity earlier this year.  Phase One of the building is a 4m diameter x 3m high cylinder set into a south-facing terrace, with only a quarter of the building exposed. To fill the Earthbags, we used 60% soil that was dug out...

Earth bag building course for Eco Lodge construction on Unguja island, Zanzibar

Third Millennium Alliance (TMA) was founded in 2007 with the purchase of 100 acres and the establishment of the Jama-Coaque Reserve (JCR) in the western province of Manabí, Ecuador, between the cities of Jama and Pedernales, and four kilometers inland. Now encompassing over 1,200 acres, the Jama-...

at the second irrigation pond

by dawn at arround 6.20 pm

 in March 2015

Terra do Caju is a case study how to transform the pervasive deforestated left-over-land into a sustainable agriculture based on permacultural philosophy and the indian knowledge heritage of terra preta.

Bonjour à tout le monde, Voilà un petit appel que je suis en train de faire ..... Steve Appel aux dons http://fr.ulule.com/permaculture-togo/ L'équipe d'animateurs proposent une stage de permaculture de 12 jours aux habitants de la région de Abojou Kope. Ce stage est proposé à "prix libre...

We are teaching a Mid-Scale Earthworks Intensive certified course at the Ferguson family homestead. It is set to be held October 22-24, 2015, on the family land in Saline, Louisiana. If you want a crash course in how to design and set up your homestead for function stacking success, you don't ...

This is a small farmstead focused on intensive operation of a large garden, rotational grazing of a dairy cow and calf, a few dairy goats, ducks, chickens and rabbits.

This October we are returning to the magical La Garrotxa, near Barcelona, for our 3rd Permaculture Design Course in Spain. We are excited to offer a 17-day PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATE (PDC) PLUS Course with over 90 hours curriculum, full of practical knowledge, hands-on experiences and...