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...

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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...

online community facilitating kid designed edible playgardens through education, community events and fundraising promotion

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...

Project to adapt the Moringa oleifera tree to the mediterranean climate using permaculture techniques.

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...

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LocaVerdi has ended its cooperation with De Sterke Akkers and is no longer involved in this project.

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