A small, but ambitious 1.25 acre permaculture experiment in the arid mountainous desert town of Joshua Tree, California.

This is a small lot in a dense subdivision surrounded by farms, but located just 15 minutes from downtown Austin, TX. The design features elements of a food forest edge.

Re-use, repair, recycle is the mantra here. Regular readers by now may have figured out that I’m tight with money, so that mantra works just beautifully for me. Unfortunately that mantra sometimes translates into hard and dirty work and this week was no exception. One vital bit of machin...

Back yard is big enough for chickens and bee-keeping. Big challenge with vegetables. Any advice will be appreciated.

To create a permaculture-based edible school garden for our children

I am pleased to announce that with the help of Rolling Ridge Principal, Lottie Spurlock and Mr. Matthew Harbert, science lead teacher, we were able to acquire the Whole Kids Foundation grant to start an edible school garden!!  

talked about my farm as a part of a lecture about permaculture given by Merili Simmer

I talked briefly about energy willow Salix viminalis, permaculture and my farm on national radio

I gave a 1.5 hour lecture about the essence of food forests and how to establish them at Saku, Estonia

So, in the Fall of 2013 I finally gathered enough info and materials to put together a key hole garden.  I figured that doing this in the Fall would let it "percolate" over winter.  It was put in a tight spot between a small deck and a young apple tree, and was approximatly 6' across by 2' deep (...

                                                            

Shepherds Ground Ecovillage and Farm is an agricultural based rural village being developed in the Hunter Valley near Newcastle, N.S.W. Australia utilising Permaculture principles and Biodynamic agricultural techniques.

Community garden with food forest

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 1,000 acres, the Jama-...

It is propagating, so we are told by the Voice What Knows at the other end of the technical support chatroom. How very permacultural of you, sir. Does this count as appropriate technological means? We shall be up and running asap. Many apologies for the inconvenience

Our early 2015 activities will include: - building new ponds for water catchment, - constructing swales and generating food forest, - building a green house - a dome structure with aquaponics inside, - building new guest houses - dome structures with local, natural building materials. - lots...

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