Finca Mono Verde is a permaculture farm in the dry tropical forest ecosystem on the coast of Ecuador. Started by former Peace Corps Volunteers, it also places a high priority on community engagement in the 400 person village of Tabuga.
Hi all on Netlix Surviving Progress is the name of a Martin Scorsese film I watched today. It shows what we are all up against as regards the current culture of destruction. I hope you all become aquainted with a Brazilian environmental agent named Raquel Taitson-Queiroz, who is there fig...
Last month I tried the Berkeley method for the first time. I have been very inconsistent with the turning days and it is taking longer than 18 days. The pile got too hot between turnings and when I did the 3-5h turnings, after 3-4 days instead of 2, it smelt a little bit like ammonia. After a mon...
Hello.
First off, is this the correct place to post this inquiry? If not, please accept my apologies and direct me accordingly.
Secondly, this is not a project (yet) but rather an inquiry.
Has anyone been approached about designing 'food plots' for North American (temprate) animals? This inc...
We have finished distributing our mulch across our site. We were able to achieve a layer of about 6" thick and just in time! It rained for two days after we spread the mulch and over two weeks later are still reaping the benefits. When the mulch is moved aside the ground looks like it has just ra...
We are building a 45 acre alpine steppe property including food forest system on nearly a mile of swales, chickens, ducks, dairy cow grazing paddocks and whatever other wild ideas we decide to try like timber bamboo.
The end of July and you can see two the difference in the land up on the rock of my land and the stuff down in the draw. due to rains in the west more supply more water in the draw as it washes through. Up till this year I would see brown vegitation other then the Mesquites by early June but th...
Work continues on zone 1;
Additional shade trellises built, but more are needed.
Shade trellises are definitely doing their part to improve plant health.
Have transplanted wild vines for the trellises and these are also doing well.
Total of 5 small garden ponds, now full with rain water...
We want to congradulate our most recent graduates of our annual Permaculture Teacher's Training. We had an amazing week together and I'm proud to say they will all do the permaculture community justice.
We want to improve a site called ‘Esperanza para los Niños’ to demonstrate Permaculture principles in action. It will emphasize the use of biological resources to lower energy costs and provide some of the need for food and water on the site. The costs savings from these improvements will be rein...
