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As an Eco-Lodge, showers are obviously an important facility which guests have certain expectations about. Our lodging facilities are comprised of local thatched circular huts which are wooden framed with mud rendered walls. We had originally planned to put showers inside the rooms. Howev...

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Some interesting things to note about the greenhouse picture. Notice the floor ismade up of several large chunks of 6-8 inch thick concrete. This solar massfloor adds lots of stored heat to the greenhouse. You can also see 2 vermicultureunits in the bottom right hand corner. Castings and worm tea...

More details are coming soon, including a grand opening party!

We have spent the last four days having a closer look at the property with some positive findings. 60% of the property was planted with Pinus radiata and Douglas fir about 20 years ago, and then left. None of these plantations has been maintained over this period, with the result that, though t...

Fiddlehead Nursery is a small-scale plant nursery located in the Beaver Valley, near Collingwood, Ontario. We specialize in edible, perennial plants with an emphasis on cold-hardy, disease-resistant varieties, and on plants that serve multiple purposes in the landscape. We advocate and practice f...

Picture: Aldeia das Amoreiras - The village farmer's and handcrafts market special event, under the muleberry tree.   WANTED 2 volunteers to help build low cost eco-shelter 14-Feb-14-March The building site is a few hundred meters from Aldeia das Amoreiras. http://centrodeconvergencia.wordp...

Picture: Aldeia das Amoreiras - The village farmer's and handcrafts market special event, under the muleberry tree.   WANTED 2 volunteers to help build low cost eco-shelter 14-Feb-14-March The building site is a few hundred meters from Aldeia das Amoreiras. http://centrodeconvergencia.wordp...

Beginning stages.

3.4 acre site on the edge of the village of Whalley.

Eco Ola's own land possesses stands of trees, acres of plants and seemingly infinite creatures that even we have not explored given the density of the rainforest. When you reflect on this photo the boundlessness of the jungle is quickly emphasized. How many species of plants do you recognize? Wha...

  A Permaculture Design Course is a 72 hour intensive hands-on course (total of 10 days) that equips you to learn and practice how to design your land and life using permaculture principals. Ours will focus on dryland strategies and give you the opportunity to practice many hands-on activit...

So within a month of puttibng in our swales , We received 404 mill of rain in 3 days... I started to worry the swales may overflow onto the berms and upon investigating and  some passive pickwork to move 2 swales into a different direction, the swales worked perfectly. The swales stayed full for...

It has been a long and pleasurable journey, growing with Chaitraban. From the arid (but at the same time, fascinating) land that it was, Chaitraban has flourished into a retreat providing a peaceful ambience while feeding us with chemical free and delicious bounty of fruits and vegetables! Permac...

This is the first season in five years that any of my hives experienced a classic 'colony collapse'. It is also the first year that there was a substantial corn crop planted within a quarter mile of the apiary. This has led me to suspect that the corn seed they planted wa coated with the neonicot...

In order to utilize the vernal pond in the back yard I explored cold tolerant rice growing. Takeshi and Linda Akaogi put out a manual for growing rice in the Northeast US several years ago. Germplasm was acquired from the National Small Grains Collection, Susan McCouch at the University of Cornel...

Chaitraban is a new project taken up a couple of years ago. It is currently an experimental permaculture homestead. We hope to move towards being as self-sustained as possible while making it into a calm retreat for ourselves and for other people.