As most of us know, grey water is a term used to refer to “waste” water
that has been used once in any domestic system except for toilets (which is
referred to as black water). However grey water from the kitchen may be
considered as “dark grey” water on account of the fact that it tends to co...
Day 2 of Rwanda PDC.
Big day of teaching for me today:
Reviewed zone and sector planning with an interactive exercise (sand map on ground).
Permaculture ethics were introduced to the group, I then facilitated
the group in exploring their own ethics and how they related to care of
...
Day 1 of the PDC saw us working in hot conditions.
We have based ourselves in the grounds of a small rural hospital in the
Kyonza district of Eastern Rwanda. It has some seriously bad land to
work with, extremely degraded with gravel and no
organic matter or water holding capacity, this i...
New publication soon:Since we are receiving enquiries about how to germinate and suceed in the planting of moringas through our winter, we have decided to produce a publication that will contain information we have collected and our own experiences in the topic since last summer, when we had a ge...
Aloha! I'm currently living in Hawaii! My dream was to live and work on a farm walking disctance to the beach with warm water, surfing and snorkeling, and pleanty of coconut trees and I found it on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii at Waihuena Farm. The farm is owned by Meleana Judd and her famil...
Water Source
Our only current water source for potable water and garden irrigation is
the Konso Town municipal supply which is drawn from a bore-hole situated just
across the road from our site entrance. The supply facility is a manned pumping
station with an electric water pump, backed up by...
I'm a little late updating here but I finally did my PDC. I took my PDC with the Permaculture Institute of Eastern Ontario in the fall of 2012.
We are also presenting at our local Permaculture Convergence this year too. Check it out the Program for the 2013 Eastern Ontarion Permaculture Converge...
Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge: Report on Piped-Water
System Current Status and Design Update
We are an eco-lodge and Permaculture training centre based in Konso,
south Ethiopia.
Water Source
Our only current water source for potable water and garden irrigation is
the Konso Town munic...
Green abundance, love the kale!
Green leafy vegetables are a substantial part of our garden. They are (usually) extremely easy to grow (the exception being our summer, when the heat wilts them easily or the torrential downpours drown them...). In winter however, we have an abundance of greens, m...
Sadhana Forest -Kenya
Sadhana Forest takes their expertise
from India, on to Haiti, and now is trying to earn support for an
upstart project in Kenya. The organization has won a number of
rewards for their reforestation efforts and has a proven track record
in not only restoring indige...
Helder is comming for an America tour...Colorado will be the first landscape to feel the positive impact...join this transformative event.
For all the information http://sublimart.blogspot.pt/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jCQRXLuE0g
This project has been undertaken as a result of an invitation and request from local Senegalese land owner Mamadou Diamanka, who is now living in Australia to teach his fellow villagers how to grow food using permaculture principles. The project will take a number of trips and consultation and i...
Day 1 of the Permacuture Design Course tomorrow.....A PDC is an intensive 2 week course that teaches Permaculture as a holistic design system. We will be facilitating the course for 60 attendees from the Eastern province of Rwanda, a mix of government and NGO staff agronomists and horticulturalis...
