Please check our main site for the updates - http://bigsmallfarm.org/news/. Sorry but we'd rather spend our time planting things that typing updates on multiply websites :)

BSF is a non-profit farm incubator. We connect small sustainable farmers, the land and the local investors in a way that makes all of them happy.

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July has been a very busy month for all at Maungaraeeda. End of June we started a 2 week PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate) course which finished early July. We were very blessed to have a group of wonderful people staying with us for that course, who all shared a variety of life experience wi...

Heading home from the best two weeks of our lives: Katrina and Daniel are now certified Permacultue Design Consultants!

  Am really looking forward to getting started in Moretown, VT with Ben Falk and his Permaculture Design Course this 30 August until 8 September. I will be flying from Oslo to Newark, and then Newark to Burlington where I will get to Moretown via bus. This will definitely be a great experience...

I currently have a jungle going mad on my balcony. Wysteria, trumpet creepers, lemons, limes, apples oh my.. And the list just keeps going. This is where I must confess that I have an addiction. I'm insanely addicted to buying plants. Whether I need them or not. Whether I have the space or not. I...

Growing as much food as my budget, resources, and space will allow. Balcony, living room, and container permaculture.

This is where it all happens: Permaculture Projects, Eco Villages, Natural Buildings, Permaculture Gardens in Schools, Orphanages and Care Centres - anything and everything to do with food security in Southern Africa. Follow an eco-friendly scooter journey that takes you to some of Africa's most ...

I have a dream, that dream involves permaculture being easily accessible and easy to use. By this I mean that a amateur gardener could go to his/her computer and pair together the perfect blend of plants for his/her garden. If there where a database with all permaculture methods and guides to use...

photos as promised

We have started monthly public tours and classes - let me know if you want to join us for the next one, have a good topic for a class or want to teach one. More details here http://bigsmallfarm.org/news/ and here http://bigsmallfarm.org/about/public-tours/

Aardwerk and STENAPA - the National Park management organisation on St Eustatius aka Statia - just signed a three-year contract to provide a Permanaut in Residence programme to make the Botanical Gardens into a productive system, supplying basis needs for the staff as well as providing organic pr...

New Zealand has more than 100 Intentional Communities. Having recently ecome a trustee of one of them it occurred to me that there would be much to gain if they worked together, so I established a project on CoActivate http://www.coactivate.org/projects/intentional-communities-aotearoa/summary

Panchavati Karumandurai is a self-sustaining Farm Community.

Who loves mulberries ? The fastest growing fruit tree i've ever seen! Let me know the name of this variety if you can recognize it, thank you. In the nursery where i bought it they do not know ... https://plus.google.com/photos/100549245946323259121/albums/5892785942292603713 A few days ago i...

I've completed my PDC (CCP in french) ! Very interesting experience which made me ask myself many more questions than before :)