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The Compost Shower Workshop

João Gonçalves
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
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Striking Brown Gold in the Desert

Gaina Dunsire
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...
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after potatoe picking - earthworks for cabbage seedlings

João Gonçalves
Compost was not added at this start stage for the cabbage. The preparation was to open about 12-14 swales, 30 cms apart, 4 metres long, 20 cm deep and wide. After, seedlings were planted in the trench and flood irrigated until the return of the rainy season (1 to 2 months after).  ...
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3 generations picking potatoes - recalling last summer holidays

João Gonçalves
For hundreds of years grandparents, parents and children would live together and there was no separation between work and play time! In a regenerative system each (group or individual) activity is multifunctional and each element participating has many functions. This photos are from last sum...
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72h Permaculture Design Course: Permaculture for the Rural African Environment: Konso, Ethiopia

Abdur-Rahman McCausland
Lead Facilitator: Alex McCausland Co-facilitators: Abel Teshome Dates: April 1st to 13th, 2013 Location: Konso, South Ethiopia Venue: Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge Cost: US$850 ($600 discounted rate for Ethiopians or Interns staying 12 weeks or more) [10% early-bird discount available be...
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Growing Wild

Growing Wild
located at 39.158847,-78.121581 Frederick, County, Virginia. Elevation 642 ft.
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Permaculture in the City~Eco Ola

As you know, Eco Ola just returned from Lima to give a presentation on the benefits of permaculture and agroforestry systems as a way to provide food, fiber, fuel, shelter, medicine and aesthetics for the people of Peru. The most beautiful aspect of permaculture is that it can be applied to any t...
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Windwards Main VegetableGarden

Andrew Schreiber
-----Images are below this Post----- Scope This garden provides the primary vegetables, and all the potatoes for concurrent community of 5 people currently. With the addition of bulk grains and beans, and products from our livestock (meat, eggs and milk) along with some moderate degree...
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May 2012

Chris Lopez
Two years of progress. Area now has NO fertility inputs and all mulch has been produced on site, though not all from within the area. Most of it is. The planted and ammended area is approx. 30ft by 25.

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Initial Planting 2010

Chris Lopez
First plants in May of 2010. These had been planted in April. Some as seed, others had been grown out and transplanted. Note the distinct edges that had not yet recieved any TLC.

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First Forest Garden Experiment2010

First Forest Garden Experiment2010
Small Forest Garden Experiment
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Camp Creek Farm

Camp Creek Farm
This is a small 2 acre property being designed around the clients special diet for Hashimotos disease.
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Le jardin du Valais à Fully_07.2012

Hubert de Kalbermatten
Philippe Bruchez est son concepteur de ce magnifique jardin . http://www.jardinduvalais.ch/

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AGAPE GARDENS AND HOMESTEAD

AGAPE GARDENS AND HOMESTEAD
Educational Food Site of Beauty and Diversity. Our mission is to create a socially innovative rural hub where we can collectively share in the origins of food and unite in the care of community and the Earth. "The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living...
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The Quarter Acre Farm

The Quarter Acre Farm
Urban Permaculture project designed to meet the food and energy needs of a two-person household. An evolving design and implementation process as resources come to hand. All out war on lawn!
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Life on the mountain

Scoutt Winter
We've settled in at Fern Tree, halfway up Mt Wellington, and are enjoying the low clouds, hot sun, drizzle, snow, and downpours... sometimes all in one day. Bretto has permie'd this place pretty well, and I've been helping put the finishing touches on his home-made bottle-wall hothouse and now...
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Cancelled _Rural Permaculture, Spain, May 2013

Matt Morton
Rural Permaculture, Spain, May 2012 Project: Bio Arc Infiesto 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: ...
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