got the chickens , got the portable fence, snow is melting so there we go

Nova Oikos is an ongoing project under construction. It is a dream, a utopia on its way to reality! We operate in a kind of “slow management” … after all this is not a job, but a project of life and society!

Our road floods on both sides of our property. Disaster is a word that strikes fear into most people. We usually believe disaster is out of our control. The actual happening of the disaster may be out of our control, but how we deal with it and how we come out the other end, is fully in our cont...

Residential Permaculture Design Course, Northern Spain Leading to the award of a Permaculture Design Certificate Learn the principles of Permaculture in a beautiful and unspoilt part of Northern Spain. 14 day PDC  Dates: Saturday May 11th evening, and going through until May  26th m...

Since our first little Introduction to Permculture this summer, works on the house have continued and winter has brought its blanket of snow.

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Have you ever heard of Mocambo (Theobroma bicolor)? It is a relative of cacao and is a fast-growing and productive tree. There are about 30-50 seeds per fruit with a delicious creamy taste. Its pulp can be used to make ice creams, desserts or even juices. Outside of Latin America, Mocambo is rela...

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A Holistic Community Center in the hills of Oaxaca to promote pillar values (love, education, self-development, community, permaculture and wellness).

For more details of the course and what to expect check out the blog which has comprehensive information including directions and what to bring. We look forward to hearing from you....   emma and barbara http://mount-of-oaks.blogspot.pt/2013/01/permaculture-design-course-in-may.html

   

We are a small, pioneering, intentional community based on permaculture ethics and principles. We run full certified PDC's here. Our interest is in growing towards an Holistic, Life Giving, Spiritual and Ecological inclusive community.

A little more winter introspection... After reading of permaculture balcony gardens and other small spaces, my own 1/8 acre or 1/20 hectare looks like a vast wasteland.  Everywhere I look there are potential microgardens, possibilities of intricate things that could someday be done.  I'll put a ...

“Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve wa...

check the link on the blog http://mount-of-oaks.blogspot.pt/2013/01/looking-back-and-looking-forward.html it´s quite a long post as I have not been online much throughout the year, but it has a lot of pictures ... Enjoy !!!

New year, new cicle. Winter greetings to all, near or far, that are part of this family. We are glad to be back in action and ready to face a new flow of courses, farm work and interconnectedness. May this year be of abundance to all! We spent some weeks evaluating and planning a refres...

For more pictures showing in detail how it was built: https://plus.google.com/photos/100549245946323259121/albums?banner=pwa&gpsrc=pwrd1#photos/100549245946323259121/albums/5742502890583528481

The UAE is perhaps better known for its Black Gold, but I struck Brown Gold this week when I spotted a skip (or dumpster to my non-UK readers) just a few hundred yards from the school. It was overflowing with Date Palm trunks, and around it was a whole selection of organic goodies. This is a rare...