This first year establishing the swales, my goals are to build soil and try to leave no niches for noxious weeds to get started. If I don’t keep out the noxious weeds, I could find myself at odds with all of the state, the county and my neighbours. The officials can demand you spray, and if you...

Tiriji is a holistic peace retreat, training and conference center for people interested in a cultural and eco-adventure of a lifetime and peace & empowerment programs – meant to birth wholesome wellness, balance and abundance in every area of one’s life.

The site is about 0.7 hectares in an urban/industrial environment next to a Motorway. The plot is a disused unpaved parking lot and truck delivery area to a warehouse in an industrial zone. It has a maximum slope of 1 degree. Water comes from the city water mains. Loam soil but with less than 1% ...

We have finaly managed to find a piece of land. 8.5 Acers of forest and Lyng. Situated in the middle of a nature reserve. That means no Pesticides, no big farming factories and no monoculture fields. Better yet the property is located on the island of Bornholm - one of the most beautifull places ...

For anyone who may be in the Chame or Coronado area in the month of June 2014 and who has an interest in seeing a beautiful spot with a distant ocean view, I will be there for the month of June. I will go to the shelter and stay in my hammock and do some machete work to clear the trail. I am thin...

Well, in preparations of site for gate installation I had to arrange for some more stuff for my project.  Three resycled barrels for on site water storage and wheel cart and four logs.  That should do for now.  

  here's what I have so far.  please add or share and suggest references.  Many are for livestock and low water crossings.  I'm still looking for more info on options for vehicles for higher water/year round crossings.  In particular, I'd like to find more info on matching crossing design to Str...

This year we have started out by building 7 new growing beds. 3 for fruit and berry bushes and 4 for veggies. We have build in a lasagne way with wet wood in the bottom followed by soil, horse manure, straw, dried leaves, cardboard and topsoil. Then covered again by mulch collected in fro...

This year we have started out by building 7 new growing beds. 3 for fruit and berry bushes and 4 for veggies. We have build in a lasagne way with wet wood in the bottom followed by soil, horse manure, straw, dried leaves, cardboard and topsoil. Then covered again by mulch collected in from the lo...

Hello all! I uploaded a few slideshow videos from the magical Course experiences we shared together with beautiful and motivated people from all around the world in the last few years around the globe.The network extends all around the world nowadays,with course participants and gratuades from 2...

Come and join us at Tenerife island - Spain were you can see mount Teide, the highest mountain in the atlantic ocean. This course will be at the Atlantida Food Forest Garden from the 20 to 30 June INFO Contact: sublimart(at)hotmail.com The New School Permaculture PDC is centred on the...

    This course will be taught by cob master Becky Bee, the autor of ´The Cob Builders Handbook´. Come join us and take advantage of this great opportunity...learn from first hand experience...get your hands dirty and walk away feeling like you too one day could build your own all natur...

  For this years PDC, we are honored to have as our lead instructors, Larry Korn who played a key role in the translating and editing of Fukuoka's ´The One Straw Revolution´ as well as Jeanette Acosta bringing in her amazing contrabution of Native American wisdom and Permaculture fushion. ...

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For this years PDC, we are honored to have as our lead instructors, Larry Korn who played a key role in the translating and editing of Fukuoka's ´The One Straw Revolution´ as well as Jeanette Acosta bringing in her amazing contrabution of Native American wisdom and Permaculture fushion.  In...

OK, first things first.  I own this plot for many years and just did not have the motivation to develop it.  I finally decided to do something creative with it.  So, I ordered gates, and contracted masons to build that missing wall with the neighboring plot.  Once that is complete, my plan is to ...