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Sunday October 26th saw the Southwest Florida Permaculture Guild come together for its third permablitz. It was held on a property that is "only" .33 acres. Considering we planted more than 50 food bearing trees and plants including a wide range of huge canopy trees including three avocados, two ...

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There has been a bit of action at the shipping container house lately, with the internal framing going in. Trying to find a good source of timber in Tasmania was suprisingy problematic. We were unable to source any second hand timber that met our requirements, and apparently the nearest eucalypt ...

We were a bit curious to see how the swale would go when there was a decent amount of rainfall on the site. We were quite happy with the result. One of the spillways was slightly higher than the other, and one has a slight low point in it, but overall things look quite good. The lower spill...

Windows and a large sliding door were put into the container house. It has also received a bit of rain since the last photos, hence the colour change.   The two bedroom windows (closest) and the large living room sliding door windows fitted. One to go in the bathroom. And the finished prod...

We have created a floorplan for the shipping container house. This is the image we were going to provide to our builder mate so he could commence installing the internal walls. It may change a little bit, but here is what we are thinking at the moment. It will have a bedroom on the west side s...

We will eventually be building a house on the property. In the meantime, we decided to put in a shipping container dwelling. This will use existing resources and give us somewhere warm and dry. Here are the footings that the container will be sitting on. They are made from steel that we bought f...

After setout of the initial swale designs we decided to put one in. As we were planning to build a shipping contained dwelling near one of them, and were interested in building that dwelling sooner rather than later, we decided to excavate that swale prior to putting in the shipping container. ...

Our plan for the block has been drafted a couple of times. Here is the latest design that we have completed. We had the block surveyed, so were able to draft the design straight onto a copy of the contour map.  Once the swales were designed the rest of it really fell into place. We wanted a b...

Great news for the project! After the team submitted a detailed project proposal back in August, we finally received notice from the Permanent Sectretary of the Minister of Agriculture yestersay, agreeing with our design plan for a demonstration site and educational centre on 15 acres. We are ...

In this community garden we plant mostly vegetables, do compost and give courses. We have many volunteers and have a terrace like design, with arround 30 terraces.

    Joel Salatin takes a very serious approach to farming, so serious in fact, that it's FUN! He knows that Permaculture principles must be applied and he has come up with his own great ideas that help keep the whole thing running even More Effectively. And on top of that he's really making money...

Sort of a local WWOOF farm for Urban folk to take a committed part in; or say reverse share-cropping; at 2-4 days or so per month. Milk the goats gather half the eggs take them home and do some of the grunt-yuck work that put's poo under your nails now and then so as to feel an intergral ess...

In 2012-2013, in the High Drome Valley, some parents and some pedagogues tried to found a Montessori teenagers "college" (a french term for low secondary school). Supposed to open on september 2013, the project failed. Various aspects of the project design seemed to have been "forgetted"; usin...