While I was watching a You Tube video showing seven examples of farms, and encouraging people to ‘leave there jobs’ to be farmers, some good advise was given on cattle:  Pick a bull that produces smaller calves. Instantly I had a flash back to my late teens, and a cold winter night. Half way ...

I am sharing my first permaculture design, which I created as part of my PDC assessment in June 2015. Take a look, make a comment. My First: Urban Permaculture Design

Got the "pic" thing figured out

Dear All, Namaskaar, We have to learn how to growup plants and trees when we take care of them for us. We have to do how nature do all this by it's automatism systems. I give one example: In Gujarat,India we create farms of mango. And for mango trees we connect them with drip irrigation syst...

Shade Trellises are 2/3 up and plantings are thriving First of 5 small garden ponds was finished about a month ago and now has tadpoles!! Wood chips and straw mulch has been laid in 3/4 of the garden.

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-...

I would like to invite you or someone you know that may be interested in raising poultry to my next Pastured Poultry Workshop, July 23-25, 2015. This is a growing area of interest and many folks are getting into raising pastured poultry for themselves and for sale in a local market. Join us for t...

Goals: to establish a working example of tropical permaculture (inclusive of Architecture & interconnected food gardens as well as aquaculture) and how self-sufficiency is a true reality.

The creation of the child friendly Joint Habitats Project : produce real food around cities within the specified land that designed through Permaculture principles.

A rural permaculture project with a focus on non-formal sustainability education.

   Hey all.   I almost bought some blueberry bushes without asking if they use Neonicotinoids.      Anybody have any thoughts on Neonicotinoids?        I see Wikiepedia says that Neonicotinoids have a half life of 34 days in full sun.  Not sure what that means though.       Luckily I am on t...

Some much needed yard clearing has been done over the last 3 weeks. Yesterday I got one acess road cleared out from many years of over growth. Still treating the yard and outer areas with Diatomaceous Earth. Has helped alot. back in April just a quick stroll around the house in zone 1 you would h...

We own a wonderful site in France which we have developed over the past 25 years. I'm at retirement age, and increasingly open to ways in which I can reduce my maintenance effort. Until now, we've relied heavily on power equipment to help out, but wish to reduce our property's "f...

Farm-scale Permaculture

Hey folks just now getting all my updates done. Here is a snap shot of the certificate got it real fast, was shocked to be honest. We got moved in the new Homestead on  5/30/15 been non stop since. Getting the Kitchen in place has been top on the list.  Got have to have a way to cook.  Seems like...

Last week’s wind really dried the landscape. It was as if the strong winds blowing in from the centre of this hot continent stole every drop of moisture from the soil surface on the farm and then just took all of that moisture somewhere else. On the other hand that lack of moisture made the const...

I posted a new update about my project on the Dow Dominion blog, if you'd like to check it out.  In the post I talk about the improvements I've made to the garden since last year, as well as what plants I have been harvesting over the past Spring season. You can read the post by CLICKING HERE!...