Just wanted to inform everyone that right now I'm terraforming the earth on this year's planting area. I have already plowed the area a few times to kill back all the existing grasses and weeds so that I am starting with a blank slate for planting. Now that that is accomplished, I have marked t...
"Gardeners plant like we will live forever"
- Bill Mollison
Gaiacraft presents a unique new learning and teaching tool for plant people : BC Native Plant Cards.
The files are open sourced and freely available as downloadable files or the professionally printed cards can be ordered at cost from...
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REGISTRATION DEADLINE AUGUST 19...has been extended for a few remaining spots!
OAHU PERMACULTURE CONVERGENCESaturday August 24Waihuena Farm, North Shore Oahu
Are you a recent Permaculture Design Certificate graduate, eco-enthusiast, or curious about just what is permacul...
Yes the plan is set now.
I will be taking up the PDC with Rico Zook in India coming November 2013. I am really excited about this.
7th November - 21st November, 10th Annual Permaculture Design Certification Course, India. More details are here http://i-permaculture.org/schedule/
Any suggestion...
With a dream of restoring lo'i (taro patches) in every ahupua'a
on all major island, Onipa'a Na Hui Kalo is a group sponsored by Queen
Lili'uokalani Children's Trust that works around the state to revive ancient
Hawaiian agriculture.
With a dream of restoring lo'i (taro patches) in every ahupua'a
on all major island, Onipa'a Na Hui Kalo is a group sponsored by Queen
Lili'uokalani Children's Trust that works around the state to revive ancient
Hawaiian agriculture.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KYunLfQ0DGk/UfwM0StJdw...
Wow, learning so much about permaculture at this intensive internship, i don't really know where to start.
We (the interns) have 11 hour days - 5 days a week, learning and practicing permaculture. It feels like a full immersion, most of my dreams while sleeping have a permaculture focus. We jus...
Location: Spiral Ridge Permaculture in Summertown, TN
Website: http://www.spiralridgepermaculture.com
More about the courses: Homestead Permaculture Design Certificate Course 9/30 - 10/12, 2013 - Earn your internationally recognized Permaculture Design Certification during this 13 day resident...
An urban neighborhood gardening project with personal plots and food bank plots. I was involved with the construction and ongoing maintenance as well as work on the community plots to support North End food banks.
At The Farm School, permaculture is woven into the very fabric of the schools underlying philosophy where "personal, community and planetary wellbeing" are the focus of it's curriculum.
Slow. Immense. Intimidating.
The wave loomed, a ripple in the pond we call an ocean, but a threat to the speck of a human on that ponds surface.
Kenton didn’t even bother to wipe the rain from his eyes. The rain never stopped. It peppered the oceans surface as far as the eye could see. It would...
As I find myself in an apartment in NYC I decided to trial the bokashi composting systems. A system designed for indoors where space and waste management opportunities are limited. It also eliminates the need to separate your food waste and eliminates unpleasant odors. Basically microorganisms in...
Week three has been a serious shift in activities. The intense physical work of last weeks activities has been replaced with the exciting pursuit of knew Permaculture knowledge. Four volunteers, myself included, and fifteen others are participating in the Permaculture Design Course (PDC). The PDC...
Debates about CSG (Coal Seam Gas) mining are ongoing. There is talk about highly polluted human manure polluting water with oestrogens, prozac and other hormones, drugs and pollutants. Our waste keeps piling up and our energy sources keep depleting.
We have to face the fact that as long as consu...
Please forgive my particulated rhetoric, this has been a full on four weeks 'embedded' in the black side of an invisible struggle.
First seek to understand. The first principle in aid project managment is land security. The mind blowing wrongness of well-intentioned government managers in regard...
This project involves youth in transition to adulthood and community partners working together to address issues of sustainability and care of the earth. We are currently developing a native tree farm in East Texas in conjunction with a food forest and garden.
