Our good king henry perennial spinach and kale were showing signs of stress in the hot summer like days we have been having. We had some old sliding door screens that we mounted over the beds to help filter the hot sunlight. So far it's working well. When we get greater heat and sun in August we ...

Many of our plantings have reached the 3 year mark and they are maturing well and producing fruit. Each year brings more bounty. We have dug more swales and have now an extensive swale system on the property. This Spring we have planted more perennial veggies besides the asparagus we planted a ...

Vallescuropasso Food Forest Research Trust is a project to establish a Food Forest in an the hedge of Pianura Padana

last fall i started my small scale forest garden, planted in about 27 canopy fruiting trees,10 fruiting and n-fix bushes, some herbaceus perennial useful plants and planty annual vegetables in the space between the others and started a nursery of perennials to plant next year. in the meanwhile th...

To establish a best practise permaculture organic farm.

Our one acre demonstration food forest at Clear Sky Meditation Center is located in the East Kootenay of BC.  I'm just back from a work weekend and the trees have had a great amount of growth and look very healthy. We focused on weed whacking and mowing this trip.  I'll post photos soon.

  Humanure, which one is it - embarrassing waste product or invaluable, free fertiliser? Heh, what do you reckon?! The human body has within its waste products (faeces and urine) pretty much all the suitable nutrients needed to help grow the food we need to keep ourselves healthy and well fed. ...

Hello world! This is a brand new permaculture group, intended to bring together the good people of Galveston in an effort to develop a more sustainable and resilient community. Join the conversation!

Hello Permaculture Friends,  Since moving to Galveston and wrapping up commitments to the Festival Beach Food Forest, I've launched a new group called Permaculture Galveston. Geoff Lawton's strategies for an Alternative Global Nation are being used as guidance as well as Rob Hopkin's Transition ...

Hi!   After my PDC in January, I was involved in 2 different projects in Spain building with straw and mud. Both load bearing, the first with stacking bales, the second with walls mad of a mixture of straw and mud. Learned a lot, since the people of the projects were also just experimenting an...

A small 400 sq meter lot behind my house that will be planted with more veggies, more fruit trees,etc mainly for main consumption and as a showcase to introduce sustainability to friends, family and for the community.

   It's almost been a whole year now since we've started this community garden here in the little town of Sylmar. It's really been going along well, with a lush abundance of greenery. If you get a chance to come check it out. All are welcome.

Last week, I wrote: “probably won't cool down much more overnight due to the cloud layer”. As soon as last week’s blog entry had been published the thermometer started to drop. Eventually it settled on about 2 degrees Celsius (35.6F) and as the dark of the early evening settled in, it was pro...

Finca Agroecologica con énfasis en diseño permacultural y desarrollo agro forestal.

En Arabuco Kai estamos en proceso de establecer un bosque de alimento y sistema agro forestal con el cacao como producto principal a largo plazo .

it is a very creative, intuitive project which aims to promote the creativity of the individual assisting.

Creating a Permaculture demonstration site from a suburban property close to the Mediterranean Sea and the centre of Nice, with half an acre of steep forested land, terraced in its lower part and wild in the upper part. Currently not productive and highly challenging to maintain.

You ARE so damn beautiful… A time comes in your life when you finally "get it . . !!!!" When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop------ dead in your tracks and somewhere, the voice inside your head cries out ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying, or struggling to hold on, and...