5 acre conversion of monoculture farm land, with residence, to a permaculture oasis.

Permies in the Comox Valley are establishing a permaculture guild. Lake Trail Neighbourhood connections, a local community school has been the venue for three potluck dinner meetings to date.  Producing a guild charter will be discussed at our next pot luck meeting. As a founding member of the ...

It’s the 26th of January here and for people in Australia that means Australia day which is a public holiday. Yay! The public holiday celebrates the landing of the First Fleet on the continent way back on the exact same day in 1788. For those that don’t know it, the First Fleet comprised quite...

Well, it has been a most interesting week here as the tropical monsoon slugged its way from the northern and hence very tropical part of the continent (remember everything is upside down in the southern hemisphere) to dump more than an inch of rain here over a couple of days. The rainfall was ...

Last week was just hot. After a few days of intense heat, even the bees were constantly going in and out of their hives just to get some fresh air - even though that was hot air. With the coming of the heat, the forest smells beautiful and anyone who has experienced the rich oil smell of a Euc...

Happy New Year everyone! Waste doesn’t excite me. The farm is located in a remote spot that historically didn’t support much of a human population – so my thinking is that if you have gone to all the effort of bringing materials up here then those materials might as well find some sort o...

For the past few nights something new has turned up here at the farm. Scritchy – the boss dog – and I, go for a walk at night to keep an eye on the kangaroos, wallabies and wombats just to make sure that they’re not wreaking too much havoc in the orchard. The past few nights the torch that I ...

It might be an exaggeration to say that you can see the houses in the photos below from space (maybe), but they’re certainly very noticeable from many kilometres (miles) away. Yeah, I have to confess to my love of Christmas lights. When every house on a particular street just goes feral and...

A permaculture based on creativity. Launching next year.

Aarde-Werk 'de Stegge' is an educational Institute for Permaculture and Deep Ecology. In courses, workshops and co-working weeks, visitors can 'live' in a permaculture surrounding with a high level of selfsufficiency for both visistors as residents.

We are an educational-demo social enterprise that works to integrate permaculture into all strata of society - from land to head to heart

We are installing a renewable energy system which will consist of solar panels a wind turbine and Nickel Iron batteries.

The 6" RMH last year never really warmed the mass of the bench since the 100 feet  1/2 inch copper coil extracted most of the heat from the barrel through a water exchange system heating radiant floors and domestic hot water.   This year, a preliminary test indicated extending the bench would b...

The internship is a very special time at Ampersand. Our site comes to life as amazing folk gather for an intensive learning and community living experience. We share in a lifestyle that is abundant with the essentials. Our rustic living conditions include, solar electricity, running ...

We are looking to hire staff to help run the farm. We are looking for people who know spanish and english, with lots of experience in the field and with organic agriculture. Vacant spots open in Feb 2015. For more Info, please contact xavier@greenbeat.org  and xavierfux68@gmail.com    

Green Beat Tulum is a demonstrative, productive, experimental and educational farm located in Tulum, Mexico, built on permaculture principles.

Green Beat Tulum is a demonstrative, productive, experimental and educational farm located in Tulum, Mexico, built on permaculture principles.