9th Annual Permaculture Design Course, February 10th through 22nd, 2014 February 10th through 22nd, 2014 Place: Maya Mountain Research Farm San Pedro Columbia, BELIZE Instructors: Albert Bates, Marisha Auerbach, Nicole Foss and Christopher Nesbitt with local guest instructors. Cos...

Permaculture Design Course, Ukraine, Lviv, December 10-22, 2013 Main teachers: Bohdan Popov (Ukraine) − a practicing ecologist, designer, teacher of ecology and permaculture, blacksmith, director of the School of Traditional Blacksmithing,developer and teacher of an original techniques in black...

Bonjour tout le monde Voilà le prochain film dans la série "Hervé Coves" :o) Le cycle du phosphore http://steveread.wix.com/steveread#!video-reel/couj kenavo Steve www.steveread.fr  

I had an epiphany yesterday.  I want to do winter gardening at my home, and not on my acreage that is my other permaculture project.  I have a 12ftX12ft trampoline in my back yard that must be disassembled every winter or it will catch too much  snow and weather it, possibly rupture the mat.  It ...

A cool climate rural permaculture design site. http://gaiacraft.com/heart-gardens-campus/

We collect the olives manually and make them press cold at the mill of Válor, the neighbouring village (which is also the nearest mill). The manufacture of olive oil goes through different stages: pressing, beating the paste, separation and decantation phase. The oil is then bottled and label...

Minutes of the first meeting, September 3, 2013 Attendance: 4 Venue: Coop du Grande Orme, Ste Anne de Bellevue, Qc. Permaculture definition: Providing for the needs of humanity while improving the health of the planet. The 3 Ethics of Permaculture: Care of Earth, Care of People, and Return of ...

During our annual Strata meeting, one owner complained that the lawns had too many weeds in it.  The management agent pointed out that Whislter does not allow herbicides so they do the best they can without the use of chemicals.  I took that opportunity and offered an alternative - relandscaping ...

The farm has started accepting volunteers and the first two have joined recently. We want to convert it into a demonstration Permaculture project to wean farmers away from the extremely destructive agricultural practices which is causing massive soil erosion.

Taught courses in Russia and FInland - wonderful participants and wonderful hosts locations. The course in Russia, near Chelyabinsk, was my first one teaching in russian without an interpreter.

Bengal Alley is a San Francisco Street Park bridging the Sherwood Forest and Miraloma neighborhoods on the west side of Mt. Davidson. In 2009, responding to the need to restore the steep, overgrown public right-of-way, the Alley’s adjacent neighbors formed Friends of Bengal Alley (FoBA) with t...

My wife and I are building a food jungle outside of Lake Placid, FL.

Come follow my progress as I take on the challeges of turning Badhiin Place Bolton Point, NSW into a productive sustainable garden and class room  

The property at the time of purchase was primarily a mixed woodlot with roughly 7 - 10 acres in pasture. Previous owners thinned the woodlot on occassion and regularly hayed the pastures for the past 65 years.  No herbicides or pesticides were ever used, nor was the pasture ever fertilized or ove...

We are building a small, diverse permaculture farm on 24 acres from scratch in the Pacific Northwest. We plan to have a market garden, ducks, chickens, pigs and sheep or goats as well as food forests, fish ponds and wild foods.

Rich, fretile land. There is a source, and a natural swale, already there, as well as a stream, that runs up one side of the property. Decades of soil build up, so the land is ready to plant. The weeds will need to be tamed, but many are edible and nutritious, the natural weeds, are nettles, hor...

Below are a few screen shots from my final design exercise.

Today I received my certificate from Geoff Lawton for completing the online PDC that started in June. Next step now is sell the house in the city and buy a farm so we can get started building a PRI. We already found a couple of nice properties to work with.