I am building a small self sustaining farm, trying as best to vegetate with natives, and in large parts high production plants and animals.

21 days learning and working with 2 local communities to help them finding an ecosustainale way of living. More informations on: www.assokokua.org

This giant "La Puna" tree is sheltered deep in Eco Ola's virgin rainforest and protected by our agroforestry practices. Its bark is medicinal and its canopy expansive. The base of the the tree creates its own small caverns that house a family of vampire bats. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

There is plenty of room across the south shore of our pond and we plan to build three to five Chinampas extending out into the water like peninsulas for about 25 feet. They are located close to Earthcamp Village so that students, interns and/or guests camping in the cabins can quickly and eas...

1. Swoad filled up. No breaching and spillway pipe working great. Cover crops and plantings rockin' ! Note kiwi tunnel under construction. 2. 3. 4. 5. New Additions. Note new greenhouse underway. 6. Back forty swale, slightly off contour for apricots.. Berms need to be raised. Spillway not v...

1. Cover Crops spring to life. Also planted, but not visible are two plums, sea berries, goumi's, a quince, comfrey, yarrow. 2. Note the drainage pipe at lower right. Because of the slope of the land, the pathway and road setup, we couldn't design a traditional spillway on this side of the "swoa...

1. "Swoad" Swale on contour with the berm doubling as a road. Uphill side will be a micro forest garden. This is pre excavator... 2. Post excavator, 3.Post excavator 4. " Back forty" swales post excavator run 5. 6. 7. 8. More excavator work 9.  

Common Kettle Farms is a 2 1/2 acre residential urban farm, demonstration and education center in the making.

Cours Certifié de Permaculture (CCP), Plufur , Bretagne (22), 22 au 31 mars , 2013en français Stage enseigné par le superviseur de l'équipe de conception, Steve Read, également fondateur de l'Université Populaire de Permaculture (UPP). Formalités :440€ camping, 470€ en roulotte et 490€ en gite....

Our Mission: The NEXT Steps Youth Entrepreneur Program introduces youth to career pathways in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (S.T.E.M.) by teaching them how to convert transferable farm and market management skills into civic leadership, social entrepreneurism, environmental ste...

The one herb that has given me unexpected lessons in 'know your element' is Silybum marianum, Wild Artichoke, Milk Thistle.  I should have known better; it's a thistle, for goodness' sake! It has powerful medicinal properties and that is why we chose to buy it. However, it's benefits are probabl...

What do you want to achieve in life? You probably feel there's more to it than WORK, BUY, CONSUME and DIE. Break out of this destructive cycle and be free. Permaculture shows you how you can live an independent empowered life. Permaculture isn't just about food and gardens. It's a way...

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Last weekend we spent planting some more trees to add to the forest garden.  Having a very steep slope, the only thing to do really is put tree cover on it.  The advantage of course of a slope (average 40 degrees incline), that the sun gets an angle to get into the understorey.  The land is east ...

Feeding the chooks and collecting eggs first thing in the morning. Matt ended up following Tom around the property for 2 days and shot lots of photos in the process (he also did our new head shots, thanks Matt!)I do not know how he would have been able to just find 15 photos, I am having troub...

Go to itunes and searching for HS432.   It's free, just have to download the itunes software which is also free.

The Permablitz Sydney Designers Guild exists for two main purposes. The first is to have a pool of PDC qualified permaculture designers who are able to do a design when a blitz host would like a volunteer design done instead of a professional one. The second is to allow an opportunity for designe...