What was once a rose garden of 120+ varieties of rose and lawn now supports a booming abundance of food, medicinals, herbs, and habitat. A laundry to landscape greywater system provides water for the fruit trees and grape vine.

The Nourishing Tree ∞ Center for Healthy & Sustainable Living

We have access to a 30 year old pine plantation where we are getting the wood for the hugel beds.  The plantation has never been thinned out, so there are lots of standing dead we can use. We used up the first pile we accumulated, so now we have to head back out with the chain saw and get back t...

we are building an "erdship" (a building out of recycled materials based on ideas of an earthsip) and are hoping to transform a land without biomass into a flourishing food forest and teaching how it is done to the locals as well as offering Permaculture courses.

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After taking Geoff Lawton's Online Permaculture Design Course, I'm trying to adopt as much of my design exercise as possible.

We are starting to get a bunch of ripening blueberries. There are still a bunch that aren't ready yet. Because we planted early, mid, and late season varieties we should have a pretty lengthy season. I plan to take cuttings from my existing plants once all the fruit has been picked. When we w...

At Hill Top Farm we use a unique and innovative design and decision-making framework in the Permaculture courses and learning resources we provide. Nature has had millions of years to fine tune designing sustainable and self-maintaining systems. At Hill Top Farm we tap into this wisdom by transla...

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Started project in Sep 2013. My back operation resulted in me needing an assistant to pick up heavy items for me. As such most progress was made every second Sunday when Johannes can to help me. We had to remove large paving blocks to make way for th enew kitchen garden. Some of the blocks were u...

Design Implementation on a Rental Property on a very tight budget

Thanks for all the volunteers (Julio, Tord, Naja, Sofie, Lucia, Yuehi, Hannah,Patrick, Marvin, Kim and all others) who participated in the past season.  It was a pleasurable experience that brought joy to all of us.   “Olives harvesting experience and joy” 2014 season will start on the 1st o...

Olives harvesting experience and joy…2014

Fruit began to ripen and also vegetables are ready for picking.

We used annual cover crops as Phaseolus vulgaris for soil building and alfalfa as perennial green manure to improve soil fertility and structure, to fixes nitrogen in the soil captured from the atmosphere, and provides organic matter used as mulch when it is mowed .

INFO  Dates: August 28 to 31, 2014  Location: Reserva Natural Yumake - Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia) Email: yumakesierranevada@gmail.com   This workshop is designed for:  Learning a design methodology that offers Pemacultura  Meet, practical tools to strengthen their projects  ...

1/2 acre high desert permaculture demonstration site.