Trasition Town Project "Covilhã em transição" Helping the community to create resilience.

In this 14 days workshop you participate in practical sessions that  includes general cordwood information, presentations and discussions of the various styles of cordwood houses and the material usage. We offer practical sessions that include instructor demonstrations and individually supervise...

First season saw an almost embarassing flush of abundance.

This project intends to transform a 10-acre sandbox into an "Island of Green" in the desert.

This small backyard sported 150+ varieties of rose, lawn, and a very small, raised veggie box. Slate was almost completely wiped clean. Soil was a lovely mosaic or horrible clay, in parts two feet of sand atop horrible clay...other patches were much more workable, but not good. Anyhow....after th...

three infiltration basins, one SLIGHT diversion swale, one contour swale. Basins catch runnoff, one downsput feeds into largest directly, and one captures some runoff from the driveway.

No water lost!!

This residential front yard was once a typical front lawn in urban Carmichael, California. I was burned to a crisp by an unknown passerby. The owner wanted a drought tolerant, native chaparral mimic. Some plants have been installed, but install is not yet complete.

Three years in.

Permaculture Ste Anne de Bellevue SPECIAL EVENT, Thursday January 23rd, 2014, 7pm The New Coop du Grande Orme, 153 rue Ste Anne, Ste Anne de Bellevue, Qc. Attendance: APROX 16   MINUTES Philippe Derruder's presentation entitled "Une monnaie locale complémentaire, pourquoi et comment?"...

Earthships are zero-carbon, food-producing, rainwater-catching and-cleaning, off-the-grid (solar and wind energy) buildings made out of recycled materials.

The Commons is a living and learning centre for sustainability, permaculture, and environmental education. We are a registered non-profit with a mission to promote self-sufficiency, sustainability and environmental stewardship through education and projects here at the Commons and in Impendle.

See all my films at The Permaculture Research Insitute Vimeo account.  Cold Climate Permaculture Geoff Lawton visits Ben Falk's magnificent Permaculture farm in beautiful Vermont close to the Canadian border. Geoff shows you the features you should have in your cold climate Greenhouses....

[Site Close Down - No Funding] Land of 2.3 acres is planted with healthy young oil palm at current. Proposing to keep land cover and slowly cull as necessary. Plan to established bamboo cultivation.

After the initial dissapointment of the compost heap not heating up on day 9, we covered it up with a tarp and thinking that will have to redo the pile on the weekend. when we opened the tarp on the 14th day, it was smelling sweet, was moist and looked darker colour! we started turning the pile ...

This is the first part of a multi step transformation to abundance of a 75 acre property near Tulsa, OK. Any questions or feedback would be greatly appreciated.

I started to build my Hugelkultur that will also act a a swale along the North side property line.  I dug a ditch that is one shovel length deep and two wide along side our fence. I am taking down a tree and have some old wood that has been stacked up for a few years.  I was going to use it for f...