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Upcoming courses

Iraz Candas
I will be teaching an Introduction to Permaculture course with Eren Toydemir on January the 11th-12th, 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey. The course will consist of 2 days, 8 sessions of 1.5 hrs on a Saturday and Sunday between 10:00-18:00.  The course will include the basic and foremost knowledge about...
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Permaculture Central Coast

Permaculture Central Coast
Permaculture Central Coast is the local permaculture group on the NSW Central Coast in Australia
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Plastering round Strawbalebuilding

Plastering round Strawbalebuilding
Last year we started with the construction of a round Strawbale-Building, wich sould be used as a multifunctional beehut. This year in June we will follow up with the plastering work, this work needs again plenty of helping hands.
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Plastering round Strawbale-Building at Wald-Wasser-Garten Einjoch / Eggendorf im Traunkreis / Upper-Austria

Bernhard Gruber
Plastering round Strawbale-Building at Wald-Wasser-Garten Einjoch / Eggendorf im Traunkreis / Upper-Austria Last year we started with the construction of a round Strawbale-Building, wich sould be used as a multifunctional beehut. This year in June we will follow up with the plastering work...
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International Multi-teacher Permaculture Design Course, France, July 2013

Marc Zischka
Location : Les Jardins de Courances Courances 91490 (15 km from Fontainebleau, northwest of the forest edge), Essonne, France. Price: The price, including tuition fees, full board and camping, is € 1,250 (€ 1,150 before May 31) Courses in French and English (with simultaneous translation...
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debriefing the swale digging session

corinne chamorro
A day way above our expectations. Six people were able to come. We begun the day by visiting the plot: observing the land shape, the cultived and wild plants, the type of soils... The plot is L-shaped with long slopind part and a smaller flat part, about one hectare big. Then we start desig...
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Permasphere

Guy Morant
In 2013, Guy starts a new initiative with Marc Zischka: PermaSpère, a website offering Permaculture training and services. Their idea is to professionalise Permaculture in France and to make the courses of some of the best international teachers available for a french audience. They are currently...

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Using stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) as chicken feed

Ute Bohnsack
Stinging nettle is one perennial plant we have more than enough of on our smallholding. It likes damp soil - a constant in the West of Ireland - and elevated levels of phosphate and nitrogen which it finds in and around livestock paddocks and wherever significant amounts of nutrients accumulate s...
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Enjoy the magnificent

João Gonçalves
     
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Belen Tepe Permaculture Research & Nature Farm Opening in June 2013

Taner Aksel
We have constructed 4 new building with natural building techniques and natural materials such as adobe, wood and stones. We generate all our electricity from the sun & the wind. We have constructed a pond and all water collected from the roofs & grey water from the buildings get filter...

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Digging the mulch pit

Daniel Brown
Before and after shots below.

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Chicagoland Permaculture at Townline De...

Chicagoland Permaculture at Townline Design
My first permaculture design, to be implemented at Townline Design in Waukegan, IL.
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Chemicals? Or Sea Kelp?!!!!---The Easy Solution

One has a choice: 1) To use chemical-laced products for effective but often detrimental environmental and health results. 2) To use organic, natural solutions. Eco Ola's favors the second choice and it is why everything we apply to our permaculture plantings comes from the environment rather than...
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Passing on the land to caring hands

Heiko Vermeulen
This is just a brief update.  As I am off to search for new lands to practice permaculture in, namely I am currently in Bulgaria to find new challenges, we have passed on the care of our project to two good friends who will continue what we started in the same vein.  I shall get my good friend Ma...
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Grape polyculture experiment (HU)

Grape polyculture experiment (HU)
Creation of a natural habitat for grapes so no chemicals are needed to ensure harvest.
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Raingarden Hungary

Raingarden Hungary
Creation of a garden of abundance.
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Stone belt permaculture

Stone belt permaculture
Designing a permaculture residence for future living
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