A 1/2 acre urban permaculture intervention.

Come out to Hebron Acres for a discussion on soil health lead by Doug Peterson, state soil health conserationist for the NRCS. Join us for this free event on July 11 at 2 pm. This is an outdoor event so bring your lawn chair. Hebron Acres is located at 19108 Scott Rd., Holt, Missouri, USA for th...

12 June 2015 The first few rains have enabled us to get to work. We have decided to commit to working by hand straight away. Back to the site today to do a timing and estimation of the work hours required to prepare the beds, after the JCB loosened the earth. The test patch took 45 minutes. We’v...

We recently were notified we are the recipient of a grant to build a high tunnel on our farm in Holt, Missouri, USA.  We're very excited to be able to extend our growing season.  I will ensure we have some photo updates for you all as we assemble it and begin using it. Sorry, it's exciting news ...

Day 4 – 6 June, 2015 The “shake-it” soil test. The large one is soil from 3 feet down, from the base of the upper, larger, rain-water recharging pond. The middle one is scrapings from the top ½ to 1 inch of soil….which should be the topsoil. The little one is from 6 inches down. What do you thin...

This June, Happy Food Farm established the Natural Education and Practice Base of Permaculture. We try to perfect the environment and facilities of this farm in order to develop the natural and quality education of children and offer a educational and practical site for permaculture learner. W...

Good harvest in Happy Food Farm~!

There are a lot of productions in Happy Food Farm this year~! Such as watermelon, strawberry, banana, tomato, pumpkin, chili, green vegetables and so on. Corns are growing well and can be plucked in this Autumn.:) We grow many beautiful flowers like rose, sunflower, galsang flower, and we also b...

Tom Kendall from the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast talks about planting into an existing zone in a rainforest environment on his Permaculture Demonstration Site Maungaraeeda. Tom runs Permaculture Design Certificate and 8 week Practical courses as well as Certificate and Diploma ...

Here at EIIPH the garden space is very small but that doesn't mean we don't slow, spread, and soak water!  For a while the overflow from the water tanks collecting water from the 12'x20' workshop ran right out onto the ground by the tanks and was causing a trail area to be wet and often slippery,...

When building the cabin here at EIIPH, I needed somewhere to send the kitchen water and shower water, so i dug a little hole next to the house and sent it there and filled it with woody mulch.  I transplanted a cattail in the bottom and a sedge, and a willow branch.  For some reason neither the c...

Hey all    Congratulations to all the grads of the Geoff Lawton 3 month online design course.    I emailed in my design on May 15 and got notice that I was certified.    With the arrival of spring, I was working on my 2 acres of wet boggy land in southern Minnesota, applying PC ideas.  Of cour...

Hey all    Congratulations to all the grads of the Geoff Lawton 3 month online design course.    I emailed in my design on May 15 and got notice that I was certified.    With the arrival of spring, I was working on my 2 acres of wet boggy land in southern Minnesota, applying PC ideas.  Of cour...

Beginning from the gold rush era of the 1850’s, for about a century the forests in this mountain range and the surrounding areas have been logged. Large scale wild fires have also left their mark on the forests, with the most recent big one occurring in the summer of 1983 (Ash Wednesday fires). ...

Now PDC certified after all these years! Looking forward to helping establish many, many food forests . . .

SeedCycle is a mobile seeds bank, moved by human energy. Carried in a bike trailer, SeedCycle is on the move around the country rescueing traditional, fertile, viable seeds. SeedCycle is an experience, a comunitary seeds bank, one the travel hand to hand, in a basis of trust, from member to mem...

Julian de Paiva is Riciardi Environmental Designer, Art Educator and permaculturist. He attended the Academy of Oceanography at the University of Vale do Itajaí - UNIVALI (1993-1997) and graduated in Full Degree in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Rio Grande-FURG / RS (1999-2003). Graduat...