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16 Day Permaculture Intensive

Nicholas Burtner
Assembled and Taught by Nick Burtner & Terry JensenAnd Many, Many Assistants!Dates 2012 & 2013Nov 17, 18Dec 1,2, 8, 9Jan 5, 6, 12,13Feb 2. 3,16.17Mar 2, 3Time: 9 am - 5 pm, Saturday and SundayLocations (Varies with subject/project): Most classes will be held at Market Square in Green...
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Preserve Rainforest Fruits Trees and Preserve the Forest

Claudette Fleming
If we preserve rainforest fruit trees  then we would be preserving our forests as well. It appears to be due to  lack of awareness that forests are depleted of their trees.  With proper management techniques  we can use these bio resources and still have our forests for the future.  Indigenous...

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Rainforest Iguana Stewardship ~ Eco Ola

Whether it be a wandering buffalo, a stealthy gecko or this almost prehistoric iguana, many times the animals on Eco Ola's land think they own the place. And they would be absolutely correct! We simply act as stewards of their environment, which includes responsible resource management and protec...
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Species Count in Food Forest

Heiko Vermeulen
Canopy Layer Apples malus domsestica (4 cultivars, incl. Rotella, a local variety and Canadian Rennet) Medlar mespilus germanica – edible fruit and bee attractant Sweet Cherry prunus avium ('Durone') – fruit and bee attractant Sour Cherry prunus cer...
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Permanatuurtuin (perma nature garden)

Permanatuurtuin (perma nature garden)
I try to show people in our own neighbourhood how much food you can produce in your own garden. I'm also showing them that a lot of wildlife can life in your garden.
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Swales

Gabriel Diaconu
As I only had time & money to plant fruit trees in the fall and now it's sunny even though it went down to -15 celsius last week, it's sunny now and snow started to melt, so i started pegging swales in the forest garden.
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Nunkeri Earth Healing Sanctuary

Nunkeri Earth Healing Sanctuary
Nunkeri is the beautiful property that my family and myself call home. Many friends and family members visit, and always remark on the healing quality of time spent here... Which is perfect, as that is the essence of the intention behind this cherished place... The Earth offers us healing, and we...
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time banks and participatory economics

Sami email500@gmx.com
======== http://cuhistory.blogspot.com/2012/12/time-banks-powerful-tool-for-building.html ========= participatory economics (parecon) http://www.zcommunications.org/zparecon/parecon.htm =========    
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We have now started the first earthworks

francine chanover
on threequarters of an acre which ended up with 5 swales due to the slope . the first and last swales were 80 wide and the middle ones 60 wide. We included road water catchment with that so put berms on the road flowing into the swales Our next project is planting it all .. that is a hard part....

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Preserving the fall harvest, Center for Sustainable Community Canning Kitchen

Ernest Rando
  Here are photos of some of the first fall harvest vegetables that we preserved in the Center for Sustainable Community Canning Kitchen. We started off the season with storing strawberry corn kernels,canning tomatoes, beets, applesauce, BBQ sauce, sweet & sour sauce, chutney, and lots of pe...
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HOKUSAI SAYS

Roman Eisenkoelbl
HOKUSAI SAYS by Roger Keyes Hokusai says Look carefully.He says pay attention, notice.He says keep looking, stay curious.He says there is no end to seeing.He says Look Forward to getting old.He says keep changing, you just get more who you really are.He says get stuck, accept it, repeat yoursel...
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Tree Crops: A permanent agriculture, by J. Russell Smith 1929 pdf

Sami email500@gmx.com
www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010175.tree crops.pdf
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A September Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

Sami email500@gmx.com
http://transitionculture.org/2012/10/03/a-september-round-up-of-whats-happening-out-in-the-world-of-transition/
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An old place for a new place

Mathieu Foudral
I'm pleased to present my new almost-2 acres paradise. Here is a blog post that present the place : http://prise2terre.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/belle-arrivee-pour-un-nouveau-depart/ it's in french, but some photos...   We could admit that future should look like the past, from an energetic poin...
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cat eyes (conojosdegata)

cat eyes (conojosdegata)
A feline look at the world from a resilient community
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Project urban food forest 3 years on

Brad Hamilton
"What started out as an experiment to see if I could grow a miniature food forest within an urban yard has now traveled 3 years since the first spade was turned." Looking back at an intrepid beginning the original concept of growing food as a forest environment in such a small space was ...
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Permaculture Immersion Orlando

Tia Silvasy
Join us for the Permaculture Immersion Course in Orlando January 3-6 at the Econ Farm.    The Permaculture Immersion Course is something new we are offering and will be like a mini Permaculture Design Course but totally interactive and hands on with little to no lecture. The curriculum for day ...
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