Nestled against the virgin rainforest of La Cangreja National Park, Rancho Mastatal Sustainable Education Center has been teaching, exploring, and promoting techniques of living harmoniously in the landscape since 2001. Renowned for it’s natural building and delicious culinary spreads of fresh ho...

I’d heard that Allan Savory would be visiting Australia.  Having learned of his success through Holistic Land Management many times, as well as the positive start to controlled cell grazing on my friend Penny’s farm down near Canberra www.caroolafarm.com.au, I was keen to learn more about H...

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Restore and recapture native woodlands and prairie of the area, incorporating basic PC ideals and techniques, common or shared living areas and sustainable food sources.

all the steps are in the diagram except that it should be at 55 degrees Celsius in three days (taken with a thermometer from middle of pile). If it is above 55 degrees before three days add high carbon material in the first turn. If it is not at 55° ad high nitrogen material in the first turn. T...

For those of you who read my last update, you could see I was initially demorilized about the methods of producing biochar. It had required high input of fuel, and material that some people might just not have the sources for. Although the end product was of high quality, it didnt seem worth it t...

 hand built with the aids of dodge 3/4 ton, shovel, pick, & great neighbors!  Huglebeds were built just slightly off contour to slow drainage of the land.  These beds were installed directly beneath the 'turf' layer.  The turf was shell-scraped and set aside for later use.  Hurley wood logs w...

For the internship at PRI Zaytuna Farm, Australia (Winter 2013) each student has the mandate to carry out an independent project. I chose to make an ‘Insect Hotel’ or a ‘Bee Hotel’. This has been given a place on the border between the kitchen garden and the adjacent food forest. On the farm th...

This would be the second PDC that I would be teaching in! Exciting! The first one, taught along side Upendra was awesome. Now, 9 new people are interested in learning how to design for ecological sustainability and some students from the former PDC also wanted another one.. so, here we go! Anothe...

PDC Plus is a 72hr 'Permaculture Design Certification Course' for beginners. Will be accompanied with a participating 'flying team' of practitioners who already hold permaculture certifications. Part of the funds raised is used towards creating a 'Social Business' involving local villagers. HTS i...

First Rental Property retrofit

Not the same after taking the Online PRI PDC Course and Earthworks by PRI Director Geoff Lawton. The 72 hour Online course actually became a 4 month online video course with a quiz and a final design project. Exactly how Bill Mollison was suppose to teach the course. No practicals or going to ...

I started building my mass heater in March'13 using Ianto Evans manual. It was so cold at the time I had to sleep in the heated room straight away. Finishing the mass bench would have made the room too damp. But, even without most of the mass room temperatures went from 3°C to over 20°C which fel...

The MELOS Food Forest project is a newly acquired property and the owners want to transform the area into something similar with our Sto. Domingo Property with some personal touches of their own.

Establish a food forest in Rapha Valley.

Work started on the property in February 2008. The initial direction was to try out different technologies in search of a sustainable means of producing healthy food, compile records and write a computer program to run the farm. It has evolved into a food forest project guided by permaculture ten...

Biochar, it can save the world! Well..can it? After reading biochar revolution, and listening to people who are involved in the biochar movement, you really start to think "wow, I can really save the world!" Now biochar has some great benefits, like creating habitat for micro organisms and carbon...