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Video: PRI Luganville Stage 1 Site Set up

Zaia Kendall
Tom Kendall from the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast talks about and shows the site of the new Permaculture Research Institute Luganville, Vanuatu. The site is surveyed by Tom, Dani, Anne and Meriem and they are determining the location of the first swale, the house and gardens. Fo...
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Family garden

Family garden
Implementing permaculture design in a 4000m² land. Family garden with the collaboration and sharing of neighbors.
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Setting Up

Nathan Lam
Now that the Online PDC (by Geoff Lawton) is done and dusted, the challenges have just begun! Since I have decided that i want to make Permaculture my life and the centre of creating a wellness life for those we get in contact with, there are a few administrative things we need to get going... ...
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New Project- Fingers Crossed

Leisa Cox
Hi All, I am in the process of talking with my daughter's primary school, in regards to putting in a Food Forest. I am hoping to link it to subjects, canteen, after school care "OOSH", who are currently running with a Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program. My idea is to source materials lo...
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PDC at Arboretum Marbella

Georgina Shaw
Arboretum Marbella, the award-winning permaculture project for Eco-innovation, is holding a Permaculture Design Course 9-22 October 2015. Certified by the British Permaculture Association and comprising of 112 hours of theoretical and practical training, this comprehensive course is international...

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Arboretum Marbella

Arboretum Marbella
Arboretum Marbella is a charity which is creating a people’s forest in Marbella made up of native species to the region of Malaga including trees, shrubs, grasses and vines. This forest is being planted using the concept of permaculture and is sustainable and organic. It is also playing an import...
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Certified Permaculture Design Course, Marbella, Spain in English

Georgina Shaw
#PDC2015 Permaculture Design Course – PDC, Arboretum Marbella 2015 – This internationally recognized training course features highly qualified educators delivering excellent and inspirational content in English in the stunning surroundings of #Marbella. This year, the course is focussed on enviro...

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Branding & Marketing support - graphic designer with a passion for promoting Permaculture!

Lisa Berry
Hello Permi friends! If there is anything you might need support on in the way of marketing or graphics, for print or web, I want to help.  I am so very inspired about Permaculture, I even put the short version of the Greening the Desert video on my LinkedIn Page! I really want to get more invo...
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Remembrance Farms

Remembrance Farms
Remembrance Farms is a boutique Caribbean ecolodge and sustainability education center. We are focused on creating resilient and abundant food systems for the tropical island context.
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Urban Abundance Homestead

Urban Abundance Homestead
A demonstration site for sustainable living in a dry costal suburban setting.
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Food Forest

Cynthia Carter
I want to create a food forest.  I have now planted five apple trees, one pear, and a persimmon tree.  I also have 3 blueberry plants and some raspberry plants.  Little by little I am building my food forest.
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Food Forest Tree Planting!

Simrit Malhi
We start an intense tree planting session according to our Food Forest plan in August 2015! They will mostly be Sub Tropical Fruit and Nut trees (Plums, Avacado, Guava, Mulberry etc with a Coffee understory). We are also visited daily by a tribe of Elephants -- so have to make an extra effort not...
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Lillie House

Lillie House
Urban Permaculture Homestead in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Less than one acre of forest gardens with over 250 species of established perennial edible and medicinal plants, Edible water gardens, hedgerows, espalier, etc. While our site and techniques are highly experimental, we are a real, functioning h...
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Q: How Do We Afford All Those Trees and Plants?

Kathryn Tracy
Answer: We don't. We invest in Permaethos' Plant Propagation Course instead. We have 80+ acres to design if we live long enough LOL. We want to put in a cider apple orchard and a pecan and walnut grove plus all the catalpa and mayhaw trees for the ponds. We need tons of leguminous trees and forag...
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Pestering the friends!

Kathryn Tracy
Because we drive truck long haul in the US, we have friends in various geographical locations that have different characteristics than our place in Oklahoma. Of particular interest is a property in Utah owned by a friend. The two properties, ours and his, are polar opposites. We are warm tempera...
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Olmstead Farm

Olmstead Farm
Five acre rehabilitation of old nursery land. Soil is badly degraded, very acid and compacted. Our goal is to convert this damaged land into a productive permaculture education site.
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Oh, to be a computer whiz...

S. Symens
I struggled for several hours trying to make sense of the arcane instructions on how to get contour lines from Google Earth onto a map of my terrain using Sketchup, but I finally managed :-)  A frustrating but ultimately rewarding exercise... They're spaced at 20cm intervals. The highest point ...

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Verified!

Ark L
Today I have seen that they verified my Geoff Lawtons online PDC course! Thanks!
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