So we are just beginning to use used coffee grounds and shredded cardboard as a medium to grow oyster mushrooms and have just started it two days ago, so hopefully we will have more to report in a few weeks. Am really excited about this project and just the whole process of turning what most peop...
We have begun using worms to compost many of the valuable resources that are normally just flushed down the drain or shipped down to be processed in Sweden. It is going well and we are using used coffee grinds, cardboard and other wasted greens from the garden in order to keep the worms thrivin...
A great opportunity to learn about design, establishment and management of productive Forest Gardens at this inspirational venue where a diverse range of styles and ages of forest gardens exist - the best place to learn about them. See details here.
These reports detail activities in HPC's "Building Household and Community Resilience" Program in Surkhet and Humla districts of western Nepal. Programs run under 5 headings: Food Security (Resource Centres, Darmers' Demonstrations, Farmers' Training, Livestock and Irrigation); Health (Women's He...
Fall 2012 we 'sheet mulched' this street facing section of our property and grew the 3 sisters guild of Corn, Beens and Squash and shared the crop with our neighbors.
Fall 2013 - 2 other neighbors followed our lead and Planted crops on their own Parking Strips...it's catching on!
Natural Living Center
Project Vision
My project is based around a natural living center, which will consist primarily of a farm-fresh CSA and series of natural learning environments. Employees, interns, and volunteer owner-workers will run the farm and potentially live on the pr...
“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”― Buckminister Fuller“The greatest change we need to make is fr...om consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our ow...
I'm pulling a lot of ideas and projects together for the next few months. as it's minus 19C outside there's not alot to do except for think and plan.... besides gathering up my seed stash to see what else we want to try this year.
For all you folks having summer in the south - good luck with you...
In september-octuber 2013 we (Sebastián Simonero, Sergio Torrego and me) decided to launch the first Permaculture course in NW argentinian.
We decided to split the course in 4 2-days encounters during weekends, in order to facilitate the assistance to working people.
The result was absolutely w...
We've had a lot of setbacks but all setbacks can be lessons. To go ahead with the project without compromising the permaculture principles is turning out to be impossible using conventional NGO methods. This is where http://directsponsor.org comes in. People will directly sponsor individual famil...
It's good to reflect on a crazy yet rewarding year in Attitjere. There were many challenges with my middle manager and teacher, both of who were moved on. The upper levels of the education department are amazing people.Efforts to plant trees and grow a demonstration garden were frustrated. But o...
2013 - Year in Review
So I guess in the whirlwind of this thing we call life, I abandoned my blog for a little over a year! oops!Well here I am, finding myself spending the last week visioning and scheming about what i want my 2014 to look like, and reminiscing about my 2013. Since many of u...
PERMACULTURE INCUBATOR- AN OUTDOOR CLASSROOM
An example of outdoor permaculture classroom was made on the grounds of Lendava, as a part of the permaculture incubator project. A special area for consulting, enables a larger group of people, to learn about ecological self-sufficiency in a short ...
