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 J...

While achieving the PDC is a small step for a lifetime journey, I feel a great sense of accomplishment with it. I'm encouraged and emboldened to step out and start designing! I want to be a part of a positive community that focuses on facilitating creative designs. We are all entire oceans wrappe...

This project is still going on at BSU. The second summer semester ended up making a circular permaculture-style vegetable garden that was extremely successful; and the fall semester has a lot of exciting plans! Unfortuneatelym due to life's unpredictability, I had to stay in my home town and tak...

It's been a big deal for us to register and take the online PDC. It's been a journey in many ways even though we haven't left the farm... Planting our first major gardens, more fruit trees and building as we go this year has been a challenge. The course has only confirmed and strengthened our res...

Some weeks here, life will throw mysteries at you. I’m sure it is some sort of test, well, maybe it is anyway? For three days this week, my emails simply disappeared. Who knows where they went in the meantime? Your guess is as good as mine. Perhaps they had a quick holiday in Cairns, Que...

The harvest of one morning schaking down 15 mango trees. Still more than enough left for the birds and the squirrels who go crazy on them every day as well :-) 

Completed an awesome design at Casitas Valley Farm for the farm itself to help it seed the foundation of a village and an intact local culture. Back into the "real world" and everything has changed. I'm looking for the next step towards making permaculture design and implementation my full time ...

Plukrijp is a non-profit organisation that has been founded in 2007 and is an extraordinary place where people realize themselves by living and working together while caring for nature and receiving her never-ending abundance in return.

Only aim here (for now) was to prevent erosion and increase accessibility… An apple tree (bearing in July!) and a Sorbopyrus shipova (after a long search!!) were planted a few months earlier. Berms planted with Jerusalem sunchokes, basins sown in with clover. Seedlings of wild plums are a ...

The mini crater garden An unattractive pile of rubble in front of the house had to make place for an infiltration basin to collect roof runoff combined with some raised beds. We dug out so many stones we ended up with a crater garden. Good thing we did not have a fixed design, we could simply...

Contour raised beds Our first raised beds were dug in march ’13 and planted with potatoes. In fall we made some adjustments to increase accessibility and efficiency. Spring ’14 we planted a mix of perennial ornamentals (bees and insects), spices and vegetables. Than the site was left unatten...

10 Megawatt Utility Scale Solar Project / Green Economic Development Program for Virginia's Coalfields Region

1. Terracing the front yard. First job was to remove the kikuyu lawn and divide the yard into two levels to allow rainwater to infiltrate. The lower level was formed into a circle with the raised garden beds at the lower end to reduce any runoff. A hardy all season lawn was added for my pleasure....

Welcome to the CBP property plant database. From this view it looks a bit sparse. No worries, we like a good challenge; like to think of it as Eden in Hell: Permaculture in a Dry Climate. There is no doubt in our minds that the #1 effort is to establish trees. The role they play is critical; s...

Welcome to the CBP property plant database. From this view it looks a bit sparse. No worries, we like a good challenge; like to think of it as Eden in Hell: Permaculture in a Dry Climate. There is no doubt in our minds that the #1 effort is to establish trees. The role they play is criti...

Our existing home is on a small site .28 acres with a very restrictive neighborhood. We are unable to plant gardens in the front yard, have poultry, etc. So this project revolved around camouflaging our food production and making the most of small spaces.

Urban Tilba is currently in the process of becoming self reliant.