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Proyecto San Isidro

Proyecto San Isidro
En el Proyecto San Isidro: educación permanente, S.C., contamos con un espacio formativo donde ofrecemos cursos, talleres, campamentos y actividades que animan a los participantes a explorar diversas formas de construir, comer, cosechar, educar y soñar en armonía con la naturaleza.
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Cob Project Campus Permaculture Educati...

Cob Project Campus Permaculture Education School In The Making
We are located in the high desert of central Oregon. Mainly lava rock but most of our gardening is vertical in nature. Our cob construction possibilities are nearly endless with emphasis on subterranean growing and living structures for the coming changing in climate. Most winters are cold but...
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Having fun with compost!

Jyoti Deshpande
After putting in the green colour on the otherwise very brown land, we are now ready to really dive into some serious growing! With two growing kids to be fed healthy food, we had been in a hurry to start growing chemical free vegetables and pulses and we got along just fine…now the greens are gr...

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sheet mulched beds we made this year

Jyoti Deshpande
the sheet mulched beds we made this monsoon were so great that we made an area of veggie beds only to grow veggies :-) now the greens (and reds!) are growing happily...we always leave some to save seeds and others are fresh to pick for us or for the forever hungry (and happy!) rabbits. just got a...

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Impressions from Sapney Farm,India

Roman Eisenkoelbl
I nicely made slideshow by visiting volunteer Chau Nog Wong shared here to give you a quick impression about Sapney Farm and its sorroundings,have a look and enjoy......best wishes from India      

Before and after sapney

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Working on my Diploma

Tero Karjalainen
I've managed to finally force myself into looking at my plans for the Diploma and particulary my Diploma Learning Pathway. This is where having a personal tutor and having deadlines comes in handy for those of us who have been domesticated by the modern education system.
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Festival Beach Food Forest article in the Austin Chronicle

Dana Crawford
We are excited to announce that the Festival Beach Food Forest project team was interviewed for an article in the latest edition of the Austin Chronicle!  Check it out here:  http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2014-02-14/the-way-of-the-food-forest/ For the latest project news, you can always ...
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Formation à la Conception Ferme Burkina Faso

Véronique Pellé
D'abord appelée pour une introduction à la Permaculture, la nécessité d'enseigner plus avant la Permaculture s'est avéré indispensable, puisque l'objectif du séjour de 5 semaines était de concevoir une ferme de 5 ha en zone sub-sahélienne. Le cours s'est donc transformé en Cours de Design à la P...

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PDC Permaculture Design Course in Paradise Island

Helder Valente
The New School Permaculture will be teaching the first PDC Permaculture Design Course, on the Azores islands, the course will be hosted at S Miguel Island http://sublimart.blogspot.pt/2014/02/pdc-permaculture-design-course-in_14.html Event is also on facebook https://www.facebook.com/eve...
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Awakened Life Project

Awakened Life Project
The home of The Awakened Life Project has been created from the ruins of the abandoned farm of Quinta da Mizarela, situated in a beautiful ecological reserve in the mountains of Central Portugal. The "Quinta", as it is affectionately known, is home to a vibrant evolutionary spiritual c...
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Morus Alba villa

Morus Alba villa
Transform my garden into a permaculture self-sustaining one.
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Water management works

Ignacio Artaza
Lots of progress this past year!  Water management is essental for the sustainable development of Terrafirma, as rains tend to be limited to the fall-spring period and have been rather irregular / unpredictable over the past years.  Summers are hot and very dry, so that all new and young plantat...
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Preliminary design sketches

Dr. Murat ONUK
I am attaching some hand-drawn preliminary design sketches for comments.

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Shiraz Vineyard Permaculture Demo Site

Shiraz Vineyard Permaculture Demo Site
Transforming Our Shiraz Vineyard to a Permaculture Demo and Education Site
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Main paths identification

Andrea Minchio
We started! Sunday the 9th of February 2014 we started to work in the project area. With the help of a very precise GPS and with the georeferenced design of the main paths we have planted several sticks in the ground. We have also identified the position of the 2 future structures. All the 12 me...

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Andrea Minchio

Andrea Minchio
Design of a resilient garden for a young association of Lugo (RA) called " The Pomegranate House" with several type of edible garden, Forest garden, windbreaks, ponds, etc...
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More Permie volunteers anywhere?

Sky Girl
So our garden is slowly moving ahead, with chickens, and a few fruit trees doing well, and keyhole beds, a herb spiral, a hugelkultur bed, a greywater reed bed and a food forest coming slowly to life... Other ideas always welcome!

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