Instituto de Permacultura Tierra del Sol, a working permaculture education and demostration farm situated in the dry tropics.

First snapshots of the field.

experimental place

This is both a "garden manager" and design project. While I am hired to take care of the crops, develop the garden and the activities around it, I've been appointed to take a designing process during the time I will be working there, moslty from March to November 2013.

his exciting PDC is run in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin Natural Resources Programme with International permaculture teacher and designer JohnSheffy, who has served in the Peace Corps from 2002-2004 as a Natural Resource Management Volunteer in Togo. John has applied his ...

This exciting PDC is run in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin Natural Resources Programme with International permaculture teacher and designer JohnSheffy, who has served in the Peace Corps from 2002-2004 as a Natural Resource Management Volunteer in Togo. John has applied his...

A residential project on 2 1/2 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains, predominately household scale, sometimes classes and education offered over the years. Often space for one seasonal intern.

A friend has offered me the use of her place in Orgiva to use for the practice of permaculture! I did a little dance when she suggested it and we are talking about when, how and what we will get up to. She is going to show me around and then leave me to it I believe. So right now I am researching...

From the Ojai Foundation, Ojai CaliforniaOctober 2012 O.U.R. Ecovillage

The Art House: A Project in Socio-Ecological Regeneration

Days 4 and 5 of the PDC we are teaching in the Eastern Province of Rwanda saw us giving lessons on all things trees, from pruning to food forest to agroforestry. Before we did this though, we finished off the hillside that we had begun to swale, terrace and use other water strtegies o...

All Day Workshop   –   Sunday, April 14th   –   at Midwest Permaculture, Stelle, IL Price – $95 – Includes Workshop and Lunch.                                            Register Here – Limit 24 Standard wood stoves waste much of the heat and wood energy when they burn, with much of it going ...

What you can expect when… Taking Your PDC in Stelle   These are the PDC Courses Hosted in Stelle - See our Schedule of all Trainings for Additional Dates 2013   Click Below to Register Extended Work/Study Internships April 27-May 4 Spring  Open -    $1,295   Stay on 5 w...