Have you ever wondered about waste disposal in the tropics or the potential of "humanure"? Why not read about the construction of Eco Ola's own composting toilet! Unparalleled views and outstanding poohs for the environment! You can learn more in Rick Pickett's blog below entitled: "Building a Du...

Earth Art -- one week intensive natural building and beautification course This is an exciting opportunity to gain hands on experience in natural building techniques with the added bonus of letting your creativity and imagination run wild as you create art from the earth. This one week u...

ManKind Project - New Warrior TrainingApril 2013 Shawnigan Lake BC, Canada

We have been using cardboard and wheat straw to sheet mulch areas that once required mowing to reduce the amount of mowing. This area on the west side of the inn has a swale with cornelian cherries, comfrey, aronias, serviceberries goji and goumi berries on the berm. The trees on the upward side ...

Spring is here at Cedar House Inn and our permaculture site is showing signs of life after a winter slumber. Currants are blooming as well as serviceberries. Comfrey is coming up out of the permaculture swale berms and other berries and fruits are leafing out. Bees are busy pollinating. Start the...

 We finally start the project on a piece of land of about 1 hectare, planted with olive trees. Most of the trees are old and they suffered graetly from drought. As a matter of fact the land is regurlarly ploughed with no cover plants. However it's a good piece of land (as there is no bad land...

Late last night i was inspired to make a sign of what best describes our place and this is what i came up with. 14-4-2013

The farm is just in its first stages of development, but we were able to come up with the materials to put together an herb spiral! It was a great learning experience for our two volunteers Brook and John who had not heard of permaculture before their arrival. We were sure to inform them that per...

We love a camp fire, Autumn is my favorite time of the year because the fire restrictions have lifted and we can have an out door fire once again.

  Introdução à "Permacultura Marginal" Introduction to "On the Edge Permaculture" Chão Sobral - Oliveira do Hospital - Coimbra - Serra do Açor - Portugal28 de Abril / April9h30 - 17h00Possibilidade de inscrição no almoço Convívio / Evento BTT da União Progressiva de Chão Sobral. Possible t...

...here is the first video about the adventure

Organic and sustainable yoga retreat center in Montezuma, Costa Rica

Dates will be 9 days between 14-23rd of June. 72-hour PDC CertificationSECTION 1: Introduction1. Story og Global Ecovillage Network - Why Ecovillages?2. Patterns in Nature, Deep Ecology, development of human consciousness.SECTION 2: 3. Social Design - Modelling the Ecovillage -Social AspectThe ...

Vollen is a place I live and learn and try to cultivate edibles and knowledge. We have planed several permaculture installations and look forward to the next designs!

Intentional Community in Montezuma, Costa Rica

Ecovillage, organic farming, and green building center near the beach towns of Montezuma and Santa Teresa.

Frogs in the garden mean you have a healthy garden, i kiss all the frogs i find, so far no prince.