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Human well being out of nature!

Sophia assengasophia@yahoo.co.uk
The first Millenium goal when we reach 2015 was to eradicate extra poverty and hunger. African families live poor lifes with no expectation of better life.Are we stagnant to think of how to overcome our problem by taking actions? How about the climate, geographical location does it hinder develo...
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Initial thoughts on the site

Adam Schwarz
We took advantage of the relatively mild December to do some basic observation and surveying of the site. Although the property is mostly pasture with some mature trees, thankfully the previous owners applied no pesticides or other chemical treatments so there is a fairly diverse ground cover (cl...
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Renovation

Katarzyna Sosinska
I am so happy to let you know that I've finished the first and most important stage of house renovation. New foundations were laid, the cellars rebuilt, the roof construction remade and a porch added. The house, which was threatening to fall into complete ruin if not rescued quckly, is now safe. ...

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Upper Water Pond and Wood Chipper

Jason Campbell
Its taken a while to dig out the pond with such a small tractor, but slow and steady wins the race!! Specially with no debt. We purchased a small wood chipper to chip the branches and leaves from clearing the land.  The wood mulch made with the chipper is being used to put on top of compost in ...

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Joel Salatin at Mother Earth News Fair

Jason Campbell
Had a great time in Topeka Kansas at the Mother Earth News Fair. Learned alot and got to meet Joel Salatin.    

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ROLLING RIDGE EDIBLE SCHOOL GARDEN

ROLLING RIDGE EDIBLE SCHOOL GARDEN
To create a permaculture-based edible school garden for our children
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Schauder Backyard Year 1

NICOLE SCHAUDER
We were able to harvest more than 90lbs of produce in our first year of growing!   We started with a keyhole design as seen in the picture.  We are updating this design in Spring of 2015 after we learn all we can learn from our first PDC in March with Wayne Weiseman at George Mason University!  ...

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Our first Year

NICOLE SCHAUDER
We were able to harvest more than 90lbs of produce in our first year of growing!  We started we a keyhole design as seen in the picture.  We are updating this design in Spring of 2015 after we learn all we can learn from our first PDC in March with Wayne Weiseman at George Mason University!   Cu...

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Blessings Intentional Community

Blessings Intentional Community
A group of locals with some foreign allies are in the process of acquiring and planning a community 0n 20 acres land. We are grounding our community in renewable energy, sustainable housing and food self-sufficiency. We make local, organic processed food to help support our community.
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Two Visions Permaculture

Neal Spackman
Check it out at www.twovisionspermaculture.com   Neal
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Back to the Hill 2015

Patrick McGinn
With the work I have done recently seems like mushroom cultivation would be a good use of this land. pkm The Blue butterflies are abundant down near the creek.

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Swale down the North Side

Jennifer Brown

Swale down north side

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Sunshine Farms

Sunshine Farms
This is my own personal PDC project. I am working on 5.5 acres and have implanted swales, hugelkulture, herb spiral gardens, and food forest; added goats, chickens, ducks, turkeys, and rabbits. My goal is to strive for a self sufficient system.
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perma-fun-K Permaculture & Regenerative Agriculture Education & Designs

rosa maicas
  Permaculture &Regenerative Agriculture Education & Ecological Designs We are an educational non profit organization that offers Permaculture & Regenerative Agriculture hands-on workshops for adults and children in Northern California and Spain. We also offer ecological design c...
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The highway from private banking to Organic Agriculture

Renald FLORES
Numbers, numbers, numbers. Financial affairs. Money dealing. Budgeting. Investment, cash management, return on investment, Competition, risk return, growth, growth, growth; that was my world, a little while ago…   When I first started in this industry, I thought making money would make me ha...
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End of the First Season

Freya Mackenzie
A busy first season in the garden concluded with an abundant harvest of fresh food to our local foodbank. It felt great to drop off so much wonderful food to people we knew would need it, and was a satisfying conclusion to the season. In addition, we planted two fruit trees, three seaberry bush...
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Cold climate polyculture

Richard Larson
This is one of my trellised grape designs. It is basically 10 foot long posts sunk two feet in at a 55 (?) degree angle. It also serves as a 2x3 inch mesh by 6 foot high welded wire fence to keep the critters out of a main crop garden. The idea came to me because I wanted a blackberry companion...
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