We are excited to announce that the Cleveland Seed Bank—in THP’s very own hometown— will be launched this summer, 2013, to provide and preserve the vital resource of local seed for our community. We will offer educational activities, seed saving workshops, seed swaps, and outreach to organiz...

The India Biogas project is spearheaded in Lucknow, India by Surhabi Argarwal, THP’s newest staff member. During their travels to India in late 2012, Chris and Marilyn had the good fortune to meet Surhabi, a young woman with big heart and amazing fire who has independently completed a comprehe...

After all the wonderful work that Stella and Faan contributed to this project they have moved on to work on their graduate degrees.  We wish them many blessings for their future. This leaves us with a vacancy for a new Permaculture Manager & Volunteer Coordinator for our site outside of Iqu...

Universite de l'Avenir is a global educative, health, agro-ecologic, cohousing intergenerational and environmental project of Saillans (center of Drome Valley, between Rhone river and the old roman town of Die).   See www.universite-avenir.com

In march 2013, I moved definitly to Menglon en Diois, in the higher Rhone Valley;   this area, called by European Union and Rhone Alpes Region the "Biovallée" has an impressive projects concerning environment and new school schedules for teenagers or children.  I hope, as a paedagogist and eco...

The Living Soil Saves Lives project empowers individuals and communities to be more self-reliant and regenerative through organic farming methods. We provide training for rural Indian farmers on the soil food web and various composting techniques with the goal of assisting their transition ba...

Our first successful Living Soil courses were taught at an organic farm in northern India that forms part of the international organization, Navdanya, which is directed by Dr. Vandana Shiva, a renowned scientist and organic activist. Navdanya is devoted to reducing dependency on GMO seeds, tr...

Daraja Academy is the first free secondary school in all of East Africa providing Kenyan girls an education that would otherwise not be possible given their economic situation. By creating a model of sustainability and self-reliance and instilling in every student a sense of environmental res...

TinaLuna and I are doing a lot of good with these 100 acres of beautiful diversity we call Singing Earth Farm (pasture, pinion/juniper hills, old oak grove, garden, straw bale home), near Boulder, Utah. But we know that with a few more of us, fullhearted land lovers, we can turn this place into a...

The minga (quechua mink'a or minga "collective work done for the community"; minca minccacuni Quechua "request help promising something", or mingaco) is a pre-Columbian tradition of community volunteer work with a socially useful purpose or with a reciprocity character. This way of collective wo...

Only 5 Days left to save 100$ on this Permaculture Certification! Pay in full by June 20th and save! Or come and work for your tuition! and save up to 600$  We only have 8 spots left and they are filling up. Contact us Info@p3permaculture.ca and book your spot now! 
We now accept Master Card and...

Only 5 Days left to save 100$ on this Permaculture Certification! Pay in full by June 20th and save! Or come and work for your tuition! and save up to 600$  We only have 8 spots left and they are filling up. Contact us Info@p3permaculture.ca and book your spot now! 
We now accept Master Card and...

A 13 hectare farm composed with a villa, a back garden planted with trees, a cowshed, an orange grove and approximatively 7 hectares of virgin soil.

We are glad to share the success of the first PDC hosted by us, here in Nova Oikos, from 24th May to 2nd June. Jorge Timmermann and Suzana Marigoni, from the Permaculture Station "Yvy Pora", were the guides of the 15 participants during these 10 immersion days. FOR MORE: http://novaoikos.wordp...

  Natural Living is a way of finding ourselves in relation to the earth, ourselves and other beings. This is a seven day course where we will talk about a natural way of cultivating the earth, ourselves and the families and communities where we live. This is an opportunity ...

Broad-Leaved dock, a taprooted "weed" grows all over the farm, not something you want in your garden necessarily but the rabbits love it and its edible by humans as well. Though I suspect it wouldn't garner such a reaction from us lot.

We had a busy winter/spring with the bulk of our efforts focused on contruction of a 4 room guest house made from hand pressed compressed earth block and local stone used as the foundation and stem walls. As of June the roof is on and all that's left is the finish work, floors, and double chamber...

After observation over a few years now, and failaure of many trees to grow, I realised that the soil needs improvement. I have a huge amount of leaves and organick matter delivered regularly. Some get put in compost but the majority is used as mulch. After putting it down it is wet ( to speed th...