We have started swales on the watersite where we have a little natural pond. More to say about that later. Weekend 2 had to stop due to malaria of our main volunteer. The next session is 16.-17 of March. More news then.
Find some additional pictures of the context in which we work.
We're using ...
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...
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...
