Finally made it home after 3 months away. Three lessons away from completing the PDC and no closer to a design than when we started. Its not that we haven't made progress, because we just invested in a laser transit and new tractor with a bucket, box blade and, most importantly, a backhoe. Becau...

Full description of internship: 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 encompas...

New guest room with the first composting toilet

Tom Kendall from the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast talks shows the end result of the Bio Digester setup: the gas. He also talks about and shows making thatch for a roof from vetiver grass. www.permaculturesunshinecoast.org

Two years on from purchase things are moving forward. I built a hut in the first year, fortunately just before a big snow fall (figure 1) that trapped me in for two weeks. The drums at the front hide the chimney to a rocket mass heater. The heater works wonderfully, keeping me snug on those cold ...

Have planted more fruit and food trees.  Other support trees- acacia etc.  Guilds that include herbs, fruit bushes, perennials (also herbaceous and shrub layers), leguminous nitrogen fixers like lablab, pigeon peas and ground cover of cow peas especially on the berns of the swales. Also sheet mu...

Date:  November 5-7, 2015 Venue: Flors Garden, Antipolo Rizal, Philippines Contact: For reservations contact FELY at (02) 635-6092 to 94 MOBILE  +63919-556-7121 or   +63999-900-3621  EMAIL florsgarden@yahoo.com  Speakers:  John Vermeulen and Penelope Reyes Background: This 3-day workshop wil...

It has been a challenge sourcing clay and sharp sand for a rocket mass heater on an island in Southeast Alaska. Our land is underlain by former beach that was lifted out of the ocean after the glaciers retreated due to isostatic rebound, so no clay onsite. The clay was located on a cutbank along ...

It has been a challenge sourcing clay and sharp sand on an island in Southeast Alaska. Our land is underlain by former beach that was lifted out of the ocean after the glaciers retreated due to isostatic rebound, so no clay onsite. The clay was located on a cutbank along a Forest Service road. Th...

I tried a few new perennial food crops this last year--chaya, cassava, and Chinese water chestnuts, all of which are borderline here (zone 8b, verging on zone 9). The chaya and cassava died, but the Chinese water chestnuts made it (the reeds died back, but they came back in spring). I am raising ...

The attached images show the Swale in March 2015. The first image shows the Swale On 14 March, partly full of meltwater. There is still ice under that water. We were in the process of putting up a deer fence to protect whe berm for the next few years while I grow a living fence. We will then take...

So I now have the topo map ready. I shall be cracking my head to design according to permaculture principles for zoning. Biggest challenge is the hillside terracing required for rain water retention. Maybe combining terracing with swale and bermed pathways for site access.  Still a maybe. Wil...

Uma estação de permacultura e transição planetária, abre suas portas para receber e oferecer, cursos de conhecimentos sustentáveis. Palhoça/SC

We bought a few chicks in mid-Feb and toward the end of last week we started giving them a few hours habituation in the coop (in the afternoons, when it was warmer). As the night-time temperatures were going to be mild last week (greater than about 10C), we left them in the coop from last Sunday....

Ya Serenidad has a Master Plan that is focused on biodiversity. In the 10 ha property we are developing a long term rainforest preserve with ecohousing intentional community, a small scale educational keyline garden and grazing areas and a tree and plant nursery, containing endemic, endangered an...

Més de 100.000 joves participen en un moviment mundial de voluntariat en granges ecològiques. A Catalunya, moltes masies han obert les portes a aquests joves, que aposten per l'agricultura ecològica i per un nou model de vida. a short documentary about wwooffing in Spain featuring Planes...

looking for a course this year in Spain PDC and Practical Internship ?? My first PDC Teacher Alex Kruger from South Africa is coming to Spain. dont miss its.... http://www.lalomaviva.com/the-permaculture-design-certificate-course-2015 Alex Kruger  She completed her PDC at Fambidzanai Trainin...