Phase 1: mainframe design

see:  http://permacultureubcfarm2013.eventbrite.com/ for details

In my home Town (Tucumán, Argentine) some time ago, a group of people interested in forming an ecovillage gathered with this goal, and of course interested in using Permaculture to such end. Although my partner and I have been traveling a lot lately, every time we return here we contact them and ...

Transforming a small field into a food forest. Involving some 30 trees.

To create a food forest on 2 acres of a dry/windy Kawela mountainside property.

A long-standing community garden with diverse plantings.

PermaSphère is a creation of the association Terre2Mains. Guy Morant and Marc Zischka share their trainer, permaculturist and training organizer work and skills, andf involve other people to spread permaculture, on a professional level.

Earth Neighbours is about (respectfully) reoccupying abandoned land, focusing around existing 'Earth Care' projects, with the intention of creating neighbourhoods of regenerative action.

Quinta das Moitas is an abandoned rural farm turned Permaculture Regeneration Project, located in the Serra da Estrela region of Central Portugal.

Installed battery timer with sprinklers around Zone 1 for an acre on the farm. Timer will be every other day from dusk and dawn for 5 minutes.  Will connect existing drip irrigation. This system will be used during Summer season as it dries everything here. This system will let us plant more vege...

Rahma Forest Garden Zine now Published! It's finally ready for distro - The DIY User's Guide Zine for the Rahma Edible Forest Snack Garden. We passed them out to all the households neighboring the Rahma site on Saturday April 13th on a door-to-door distro walk for FREE toa ll neighborhood reside...

Iniciativas de transição no Baixo Alentejo. 'Transition Initiatives in Baixo Alentejo'

Martin Roberts will talk about beekeeping in general, hive components, setting up a hive in a residential backyard and products obtained from bees.   Martin moved from Sydney to Somersby in 1986 and lives on 1 acre. He's been keeping bees for 20 years. He has nine hives and drinks all the Mead...

This is a small CSA, designed to be a hodge podge of experimental beds, techniques, etc. I'm enticing local people/families into loving to grow their own food and finding out what works best on this land. Now annual, eventually perennial as herbs, roots, vines, bushes and fruit trees replace ...

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We've got plants coming in, and the machines are doing their stuff.  Time to get this show on the road I say.

This 6 foot wide swale will hold water high up on the property and hydrate/fertilize the field where we'll grow our vegetables.  We'll also get some good fruit from it in due time.

While things have been developing along nicely at the farm site of Mudlark Permaculture, I have been working on a few new things in my life, for instance , a new life! Doing my PDC did lead me to a Permaculture divorce, and I headed off to my new farm with a new outlook on life, to develop a De...