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.





This would be a wildlife photographer's dream. Set up camp and watch. This camp set in a bowl of jungle, and looks out toward the ocean. Big birds hang glide on the updrafts from the ocean.

Date: October 7th to 19th Factsheet with more information here. Take a look.

The ultimate way to stop deer and other animals damaging your fruit trees. At St Andrews we have a whole gamut of animals that attacked the new orchard. Kangaroos, Wallabies, possums, rabbits, wombats and more recently deer. Initially I began by surrounding each tree with wire mesh, but some...



Date: September 29th to October 4th To see the factsheet of this course, please click here. Registrations are open. Contact us (registration@valedalama.net)

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Off the grid straw bale house with garden and chickens.

Pollinating some fruit trees can be a problem. One trick I have used since the early 1980s is to spray the blossom with a weak solution of sugar and water -  bees tend to like to work a single source and once the word gets out that a certain tree or trees are on fire the little insects do the...

2013 / 2014 Course Schedule If you are interested in learning about permaculture in a classroom setting, sign up for one of our courses. Listed below are our courses for late 2013 - early 2014. You can also volunteer with us. Check our website for specific volunteer dates.   Course Perma...

Any one who has owned a labrador would be aware of their insatiable drive for food along with cuddles and affection ... currently if Jake (the labrador) thinks the chooks are getting a reasonable bounty of fresh scraps (he loves vegetables particularly carrots and broccoli stems) he’ll decide...

The main purpose of the lodge is to enable guests to experience traditional maasai life with all its cultural and social aspects, feel the strength of african nature, learn about new ways of soustainable development and help the maasai community to have additional income for their projects.

Backyard permaculture on the Alaskan coast

  2-Week Intensive PDC at The Yoga Forest, San Marcos la Laguna, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. November 18 -30, 2013 You will be a certified Permaculture designer, a certification that is internationally recognized by the permaculture community. You will also have the knowledge and practical sk...

A year ago a freak storm with hail stones the size of golf balls smashed the young sharon fruit tree in our garden and we lost 90% of the harvest. We'd only just moved into the cottage and this poor little tree had received almost no care for years; the previous tenants were not gardeners at all....