Pond - the area between bridges filled and starting holding water before it was completely dredged, but the ducks love it. The area below the lower bridge is slow going and required putting in access for a back hoe and spending a lot of time doing stump removal. If larger equipment could be broug...

This links to a forum post where anyone interested can download the pdf I submitted for my design exercise for the 2015 Geoff Lawton online PDC. The property is at 59 degrees north in Koppen Dsc, subarctic, but on the mild extreme of subarctic lots of pictures : ) http://www.permies.com/t/48...

During a tour of the land Hector and Luis found three varieties of mushrooms growing happily on piles of rotted wood. This made me do a little research. Still looking for and Intern who wants to have a small house and internet connection. About 125usd (a month) is what I can afford for a stipend....

Come and see how we transform this, just a bit over 500m2 urban block in subtropical climate, into our small permaculture paradise. :-)

I was tired of losing most of the precious water at this dry time of year out the bottom when watering potted plants.  I wasn't ready to go the time and expense to build a proper wicking bed, so i came up with just tying up the ends of the plastic my pots were resting on and situating it so the o...

As the name implies, Dreamland Farm is the realisation of a dream cherished for half a century. Having spent 40 years in an office, I am now free to enjoy the boundless pleasures of nature. Thanks to the values and principles of permaculture, I am trying to creatively forge an alliance with it fo...

I received my PRI PDC certificate! It was  a really mind expanding course and is informing my decisions and creative visualization daily. I'm having fun putting these things into practice right here at home on Ismailof Island, in Alaska's Kachemak Bay, near Homer, latitude 59 north.  Have a loo...

I was thinking how I might start once I acquire my Alaskan dream property. I came up with this idea for a simple low cost (around $2,000 US in materials) passive solar modular unit. Feel free to use and abuse this cold climate idea. Anyone with carpentry skills and adequate tools could build th...

7 acres of land in Grey County, Ontario, featuring many mature apple trees and wetland.

Curso de Diseño Sustentable | El Manzano 2016 4 enero, 2016 @ 9:00 - 29 enero, 2016 @ 18:00 El Manzano, Cabrero, BioBio Chile+ Google Map 5 Claves para un mundo mejor Detalles pronto!!! * Fechas: 4-29 Enero * Primeros 25 inscritos CLP$599.000 * Todos los demas: CLP$689.000 Mas in...

Curso | Diseño de Permacultura | 18-31 Julio julio 18 @ 9:00 - julio 31 @ 18:00 El Manzano, Cabrero, BioBio Chile Siendo parte del cambio Curso acreditado por el Permaculture Research Institute. Calificación internacional y herramienta universal para crear un futuro resiliente a trav...

Internado Agricultura Regenerativa | Primavera octubre 1 @ 9:00 - octubre 31 @ 18:00 El Manzano Cabrero, BioBio Chile + Google Map "Acelera tu entrenamiento en la Agricultura Regenerativa" * Fecha: 1-30 Oct * Lugar: El Manzano * Profe(s): Eugenio Gras El Manzano ofrece 4 semanas ...

Diplomado Agricultura Orgánica | MasHumus octubre 1 @ 9:00 - octubre 10 @ 18:00 El Manzano, El Manzano Cabrero, BioBio Chile+ Google Map Las herramientas en tus manos Detalles pronto!!! Info: contacto@elmanzano.org 3 Modulos * 1-5 Oct | Biofertilizantes, Cromatografia y Microbiolog...

Open Days and Forest Gardening Courses are very busy.  We have a ScotLAND tour on the back of the IPC in London this September which I'll be guiding visiting various sites around Scotland (See here: https://ipcuk.events/edge/Permaculture_ScotLAND_Tour. PDCs planned here (Garden Cottage - ongoin...

The importance of the demonstration, research and education we are a part of at PRI Sunshine Coast becomes more and more obvious when we look at the current challenging situations all around the world, the daily worrying news of war, exploitation and destruction. The evidence to act cannot be ove...

“The patterns and forms of a tree are found in many natural and evolved structures; an explosion, event, erosion sequence, idea, germination, or rupture at an edge or interface of two systems or media (here, earth and atmophsere) may generate the tree form in time and space. The tree form may be ...

Planetary Permaculture Pilgrimage 2.0 A once in a lifetime opportunity to join a learning guild of students and teachers on a pilgrimage to the United Kingdom to study directly with many of the Global Grandmothers and Pioneers of Permaculture. Receive wisdom, empowerments and a vastly upgraded p...

Permaculture is a program for redesigning our world with ecological principles. It’s a global toolkit of concepts from traditional societies and modern scientific understandings that can help us to create a productive, harmonious and healthy Earth for ourselves and future generations of life on E...