March 16th Open House That Spring Chicken Thing March Open House Features "Ethics: The Basics of Raising Chickens Workshop" It’s almost springtime, when chicks will arrive here and in many first-time chicken owner families throughout the country.  Join us for and discover why keeping chickens is...

Utilizing the Whole Systems Research Farm permaculture site in Vermont's Mad River Valley, a new 175 acre site we recently acquired in central Vermont, our design studio resources, and a team of leading facilitators, Whole Systems Design offers a one-of-a-kind skills-based resiliency training exp...

This project represents one of the largest public projects in the region and we were brought in to help ensure regenerative stormwater practices are implemented and that a human scale streetscape results. 

Ricks update below Just about sums up day 1..... I really enjoyed giving a lesson on small intensive systems, most villagers only have a very small plot to work with and an extra intensive kitchen garden is what is required!! Day three. Dealing with the effects of climate change. The w...

What do you really need   I asked a friend who has two children what she really couldn't do without and she said three things : a sling, a relax-chair and plenty of underwear (bodysuits and all-in-ones that can be easily and frequently washed). I can say now, Roos being nearly 12 weeks now...

About consumption and use of resources   It starts when your pregnancy begins to show : “Are you allready furnishing a babyroom? Do you allready have a pram/bed/carchair... or wich one are you going to take? Are you having a gift-list on the birthcards?” “Euh, I was thinking about washable...

To have kids or not to have kids?   Do I want children? No? Than don't have them and enjoy your life on this planet. There are enough people allready but still a lot of beauty and mystery to be experienced. Look for it! Don't wait behind your tv. Yes? But... is it responsable to have t...

Full Permaculture Design Course (PDC) "Aiming at food self-sufficiency for the communities of Planes (200 houses) and Villanueva (80 houses)."This significant project happens to be in a remote village: Villanueva Honduras. The people lost their dignity when ''coffee growers'' colonised the market...

Here are some photos... It's hard to get a sense of landscape when plants are closing in! I must experiment with a movie sometime. 

I moved to a house on a suburban block in a country town 2 hours south of Sydney in 2008. Promptly turned over grass, added cocopeat, chicken composted pellets, blood and bone, by 2012 beginning to be a jungle that can be shaped.

The use of small hand tools in farming can be found all over the world, however in the 1st world many of these tools and skills on how to use, maintain and repair these tools have been lost. If you go to 3rd world countries you can still find these small hand tools still being used today, a...

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I have fantastic news to share with everyone. The Barbados Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Water Resources Management has officially partnered up with CPRI and has given the project 15 acres of land in the most desirable area, Graeme Hall in the Parish of Christ Church. We are ironin...

We can just about see the light at the end of the tunnel of this house building project. We passed our big rough in inspection so we are down to finsh work now. We should be ready to move in, in about 2 months.    

"Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night" ~ Victor Hugo   http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=540587259314356&set=a.375354115837672.90487.168036436569442&type=1&theater

I had teed this one up before heading to Australia to do my PDC so it had always been at the back of my mind, but I hadn't anticiapted how much my inital thougts would change upon returning for a site visit with more educated eyes and looking at it with my post-PDC knowledge. An appox 350m² sout...

Well this was a tough brief from my first client, I have to say.  She had recently bought the property and it had a decent sized back yard with some existing trees around the edges of a large lawn on a slight incline towards the house. The challenge was that she was not particularly "green", not...

9 - 18 August 2013 | Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Co Tipperary | Express your interest in attending | Fees €550 / Reserve a spot with a €100 deposit (detail here). Join Albert Bates, awarded the Gaia 2012 Award, accompanied by gardening, farming, perma-facture, social permaculture and green buil...