Re-design of land and urban spaces for a community garden. Main users: elder and people with disabilities and accessibility challenges. The garden was designed in October 2013 but still has areas in need (for which I am the main designer): these areas will include a gazebo and sitting/eating/meet...

October 13, 2014 Today I received my first PDC certificate in the mail. I completed the final capstone design project exercise back in mid-August and Geoff Lawton and his staff must have been swamped with exercises to assess. Anyway, the trailhead is now marked and the journey has begun....

Falling Water is a demonstration permaculture homestead that does community outreach, workshops, consultations, and will have a barter CSA next year.

Located within a deed-restricted community, this serves as an example for local residents that permaculture can be practiced with an aesthetically pleasing design.

Every now and then the soil releases another strange artefact to show that I’m just another in a long line of humans that have been traversing this land for many millennia. The other day I tripped over a strange old rusted heavy duty chain. The chain was in the middle of the path between...

 The Gaia Ashram Internship is a one month holistic learning experience that aims to deepen and empower the connection with ourselves, with each other and with nature as well as encouraging the confidence and the skills for sustainable and community living. The design of the program is ba...

Creation of an organic garden in suburban New Jersey starting in 1998. At first 6 raised beds were created, then 5 more. In 2009 I've become a master gardener and in 2014 became a permaculture designer. My suburban garden now feeds many families with delicious, nutritious and healthy produce.

I am building a small swale to keep the water in the field. It is more tricky than I thougt.   When rain falls a huge amount of water goes downhill. I am trying to keep it in the fields with our orchard.

The Wetherby Park Edible Forest is a 1/3 acre public food forest that inspires our community to gather together, grow our own food, and rehabilitate our local ecosystems.

Sistemas Efímeros ephemeral systems is an arts-led, trans-disciplinary collaborative project that seeks different ways to express ideas which will augment the perception of the natural value of arid landscapes. Simultaneously Sistemas Efímeros will promote sustainable and transferable adaptations...

     Right now I am getting ready to hopefully worked with a Lecturure/ Professor on the idea of utilizing a greenhouse at a local high school in the San Fernando Valley to educate students in an environment to aid in their understand of math and science. We see it as a way to get them to apply w...

In a month or so I will plant pine trees, maybe 100 and thin out some of the jungle strangler figgs.

The strategy is to keep this compost pile hot as long as it takes to absorb all the garden leftovers. The main start was a full pickup truck load of prmarily a 50-50 mix of horse maure to sawdust. Started the pile with about a third green material, and have been adding every turn since. My idea i...

Finally finished my permaculture journal and it is now for sale on my Etsy site.  I originally began this project because I couldn't find anything that I liked to keep my gardening records in.  That original garden journal has now been dramatically expanded to include permaculture elements and mo...

About a decade and a half ago I knew an electrician who used to have a favourite saying: “Builders bog hides a multitude of evils” he used to say to me. Whilst that sentiment sounds a bit dodgy, he was actually talking about hiding all the rough edges, cables and pipes etc. in house constructi...

A local Permaculture group who share resources, knowledge and inspiration.

Here you can access the 15 designs (links below) in my 456 page Diploma portfolio, aligned to Diploma System 5.2 with the Permaculture Association in the UK. There is also a video with my Diploma presentation, as well as critique of the diploma system.Accredited Friday 12th Sept at the 2014 UK Co...

Ginhawa is a food forest located at the foot of Mount Malarayat. Its main focus will be on resilience education. Its trainings aim to build community and ecosystem resilience thru Permaculture design courses.