After (and during) digging our first swale we planted it with a small variety of baby trees. Some seem to be taking hold quite nice, but for example half of the oranges planted have been robbed of all their leaves (leafcutter ants??). For ground cover we did not yet have many options, so we used ...

Hi all I stayed in Chile for two months, then came back to my brother's property and did more implementation. Unfortunately they did not continue looking after the vegetable seedlings as they said they would and all died in place, either in the veggie garden or the greenhouse. Only the basi...

One cool thought was a commercial kitchen, perhaps a community commercial kitchen. Thought about doing ducks, since we can grow slugs here, duckweed, possibly azola, and comfrey; mulberry won't be too far away from fruit now planted some years ago. Another idea I had was to do a sort of...

Here it is after about two months growth.  With all the nitrogen fixers, the trees are really taking off!

This spring I dug and cover cropped my first two small swales.  Later on, the fruit trees were delivered and planted.  2 apples, 2 plums, 2 pawpaws and an almond. I added comfrey, potatoes, lemon balm and other herbs to the cover crop of vetch, clover and field peas.  I also planted squash...

So, we are working with our worms and using what they produce to feed our plants. We also have been experimenting with the mushrooms in the spent coffee grinds and are working to make them grow bigger. Now the days are long(24hours) and we are hoping to get permission to grow outside soon to expa...

New know how adquired, new visions embedded for dymanic regenerative permaculturian design skills. The learning journey continues. Happy to join any related project in the Cyprus, Turkey, Middle east region during the summer.

Plenty of waste is available for supplying resources for making a family home. This is a picture diary of my attempts to build a Mobile Tiny Home with minor construction experience.   This is a old Camper Trailer that someone wanted to toss. The deconstruction took 6 days. Thankfully the Westlak...

Living in the Semi-Tropics with a suns angle constantly changing from season to season large trees tend to block most of the rays in the winter. Due to this barrier and my getting older/lazier I've decided to elevate all problems by placing a floating greenhouse on the lake behind the house....

The 2 Mulberry Northrop Morus alba that were planted in 2013 as 3 foot trees look to have died back to within a few inches of the ground. Most of the 1000+- asparagus plants that were planted this year have come up through the 2 inches of soil with many of them a foot tall. I added some leave...

It was a great week-end, nice weather, meaningful conversations and just a few black flies! 11 interns from Solutionera.com, our partner in the summer courses, arrived on thursday to help prepare the grounds, cook meals for 25 people and pretty up the place. Everything was ready for the intense ...

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Our soils are pretty heavy clay so I was curious to see what would happen if we just dug a quick hole and piled up the spill on the down hill slope. Had a spare 30 minutes left on the mini-excavator we rented to put in the front swales and decided to try an 'ad-hoc' duck pond.  I've seeded the f...

Ownership and legal access has limited our acess to the land. However great progress has been made on the master-plan. The volunteer work took place on the existing site of the HK Perma Club instead. It's rainy season here in Hong Kong, and not only not a lot of work can be done, but it has m...

Our regular meeting was postponed until May 12th, when the official results of the 2014 Sustainability Fund recipients would be announced. On that day, we learned our project would be funded and so, we have enthusiastically begun! Yesterday, June 1st, we had our inaugural session and groundbre...

As it happens, I am pleased to hear the garden is being taken as a  example and sample of practice for a guided visit by a north Antwerp (Kapellen) branch of the transition movement.   The guided visit will take place by the current custodian of the project. slideshow on picasa