Spring is bringing surprizes!! In april 2014, we're organizing a PDC (permaculture design course) and a short weekend course about forest gardens.Permaculture is a sustainable human settlement and agriculture design system that mimics natural systems, but with an increase in productivity. The P...

Due to the length and detail of this project it has been done as a PDF.  You can get the most current version at anytime at this link http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/docs/3-4-acre-ff.pdf The current version should be considered a rough draft.  The initial document will be completed no l...

We are now harvesting snow! 

Vermont Applied Permaculture Design Course Dates For The 2014 Courses Are:July 4th To July13thAndAugust 22nd To August 31stThe Courses Are Likely To Fill Again For The Third Straight Year, So Please Keep That In Mind. We Will Carefully Cap The Maximum Number This Year. http://www.wholesystemsde...

Permaculture farm nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas promoting global wellness and sustainable practices.

Wood en Stock gather funding from local sources and plant trees! Not much commercial/communication work, we just get our hands dirty and plant trees in the mountains of Andringitra in southern Madagascar

Flat-edged shovel. Way below freezing temperatures. Hit base of cattails with shovel. Small effort. Big handful of mulch!  

50 years of embodied knowledge and wisdom. There is an increasing and urgent global need for viable, sustainable human settlements. Ecovillages provide environmental, social, economic and spiritual sustainability, and an enhanced quality of life for all. Ecovillage communities are cohesi...

50 years of embodied knowledge and wisdom. There is an increasing and urgent global need for viable, sustainable human settlements. Ecovillages provide environmental, social, economic and spiritual sustainability, and an enhanced quality of life for all. Ecovillage communities are cohesi...

Finally!  I am excited to announce that in collaboration with the GREB (Groupe de recherches écologiques de La Baie - La Baie Ecological Research Group)*, a well-established and renown ecovillage dedicated to ecological experiential research in the province of Quebec, I am currently working on th...

In a beautiful place in the mounts near Belo Horizonte, capital of Minas Gerais estate, Brasil, lies a great oportunity to gather up people willing to form up a kilombo in the Mata Atlântica and develop a demonstration farm. More updates will be on soon, when the details are more solid. For now,...

Introduction: A few years ago, a few of us—ecology, economics, and business graduates—founded a non-profit organization called Third Millennium Alliance (TMA). We raised some money and bought a lot of land in a critically endangered rainforest and established an ecological reserve in coastal...

Nodo de permacultura construyendo sustentabilidad en colectivo.

Jiwa Damai encourages a combination of theory and hands on practice in a supportive environment as an important approach to learning and growing. Our internships offer the possibility to design and actualize a project, either as a group or on an individual basis. Our interns receive expert suppor...

We have a permaculture garden practicing sustainable biological gardening based on EM (effective microorganism) technologies. One focus is to preserve rare species of indigenous plants, another to harvest coconuts and use local traditional methods to produce a pure virgin oil. One area contains a...

I was clearing the compound and cut down a pawpaw tree and chopped it up and threw it on one of my six compost heaps.  With a few weeks the pile that I threw it on to lost 2/3 of its height suddenly, becoming humus material- while the other 5 were sill a meter and a half tall and with recognizabl...

The secret to this method is to plow along the contours of the hill in ONE direction, and to throw the soil downhill- that means plowing left to right when facing uphill.  The plow is dragged on its side to the starting position each time.  The first plowing forms a sill that catches the second, ...