Onchenda Open Global Food Co-op rcently incorporated as a Benefit Corporation (social enterprise) in Utah, where we will be conducting our proof of concept pilot in Logan. We have taken on another Permie as a partner, Joshua Choate, who owns a two-story commercial building in Logan containing an ...

The last few weekends have been a real pleasure, now that the cold winter has ended and the weather is becoming progressively sunnier and warmer. They have also been extremely busy as we can now get on with all the stuff we have been planning over the winter. Most urgent is the raised vegetable b...

I received my trees from the Indiana Forestry service. Now I have to plant them. 100 of each Hardy Pecan, American Hazel, Black Chokeberry.  I also ordered a few Indian Blood Peach trees, Au Rosa Plum, and Green Gage plum.  I'm currently adding to myfruit production and some nut trees/shrubs.  I ...

Purpose: Assisting a small group of single moms in low income housing produce their own food and learn about growing rather than shopping for healthy meals.

I am so pleased to announce that to start the process of rebuilding the farm, An ECOBUILDING & DESIGN CAMP is planned from 13 till 27 June in the farm; First workshop : focus on design and building of ROCKET STOVE + EARTH FLOOR dates 13 to 19 june Second part : celebration of the INTERNAT...

Advance Notice As we are making preparations for the Ecobuilding and Design camp in Yunus Emre farm, I thought it would be a good time to remind you about Yunus Emre farm, what it is, how it started and its present condition almost 3 years after the devastating fire which took place in 2012. ...

Bei Schloss Türnich in Kerpen haben wir ein Projekt ins Leben gerufen, welches das Ziel hat einen Garten zu schaffen, der sowohl eine ausreichende Ernte bietet, aber auch ein Lehr- und Lerngarten wird - insbes. für Kinder.

In over half an hour, I will be slaughtering a duck and a female goose. I like to use the word slaughter rather than kill as it adds purpose to an otherwise heedless act. On YouTube, I saw a video of Joel Salatin and he spoke words similar to, for there to be life, there must be sacrifice. For so...

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The mp3 audio file for this blog is available on the Souncloud. Regular listeners will be happy to note that I have purchased a new high quality microphone so the audio quality is a whole lot better. Enjoy. Oh yeah, here's the link: Soundcloud watching the detectives Scritchy, the miniature fo...

I have been traveling around the world for the last 5 years working on permaculture projects and communities in several countries. I shared my nomadic journey in 2 articles which you can see here and here . I decided to settle down for a while and bring my knowledge and experience in managing per...

Watch out our project in permaculture in Senegal. To support the project : HERE

Watch out our project in permaculture in Senegal. To support the project : HERE

I was out this morning observing one of the garden plots I'm taking over, and I noticed a lot of soil and detritus has been washed away by our recent heavy rains. This gave me another convenient source of mulch, actually--there's a mulch trap downhill of the garden where the grass grows tall and ...

We're into acting now and it's: water After five weeks of mind reshaping lessons, week seven was a taste of action. It wasn't just a slice of cake but a big half of the cake, I'd say, the topic was huge: water. Now we all know how much water is important and all that, but when you get into wate...

So, my father has recently had spinal surgery and lost a lot of function in his arms and legs, which has been really hard for both of us--but, on the silver lining side of things, this means I finally get my hands on his two garden plots! He has been incrementally killing my soul by dousing them ...

Tom Kendall from the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast shows how he feeds the 5m3 biodigester to create biogas for use in the kitchen.

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