Now that we’ve wrapped up our last course in 2012, it’s time to look forward to our offerings in the coming year. Our first course of 2013 is our Stelle Winter PDC, with a focus on creating productive growing spaces from kitchen gardens to small farms. We see this as part of an evolving pattern f...

2 Week Intensive PDC at Meanook Biological Research Centre and Retreat located in Northern Alberta, a 1.5 hours drive from Edmonton Alberta. Full Accommodation will be provided along with 3 nutritious meals per day. We have some exciting permaculture teachers who will be presenting this course a...

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The Saint Louis permaculture guild had a meetup at the farm at Kraut Runtoday, It was pretty great. We did a little farm tour with Chris and Ryan, partners in the farm, and talked about some water harvesting systems that could be put into place to reduce or assist with irrigation.  When I fir...

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Howdy Folks, We have a new meetup.com group in Saint Louis focused on permaculture. If you are in town, or even out of town, Join Up. It's free and you might run across something you are intersted in attending. We currently have one ongoing event it's a Book club every-other-month. The between...

8th AnnualPermaculture Design Course, February 18th through March 1st, 2013February 18th through  March 1st, 2013Place: Maya Mountain Research FarmSan Pedro Columbia, BELIZEInstructors:Albert Bates, Andrew Goodheart Brown, Christopher Nesbitt & local guest instructors.Cost:USD1250/Belize$2500...

We live on a 3-hectare land in the province of Granada (Spain) and have a "big" project : to adapt our life in order to be able to: - satisfy ourselves to a maximum of our needs (mainly those of energy and food); - minimise our impact on the environment; - have time to evolve in a...

There seems to be a problem with the fourth video on the linked page below. I can only download 2.6 mb of a 151 mb file. I've contacted the page owner, but have had no response after 2 months (at Dec 2012). Also Bill likes to tell stories and there can be found what I'd call metaphysical stuff in...

The participants and members of the Center for Sustainable Community set out to build a Hugelkultur Keyhole garden bed with the Hugelkultur beds dug into the ground. The details are in the photos, but we used a space about 18′ x 23′. At the highest spot we placed a large compost pile ring (in the...

Eco Ola has been working intimately with the Matses tribe of Peru and learning from their profound knowledge of the rainforest. As our colleague Dr. Christopher Herndon commented: "It is not a coincidence that the remaining tracts of pristine rainforest in the Neotropics overlap with areas of ind...

Un nouveau billet présente le bilan de la première année sur le terrain.   Here is a new post on the blog about the one year assessment of our design on the project.

It's all there http://bigsmallfarm.org And you can be part of it!  

We are developing about 10 acres of beautiful mountain landscape into a working model of permaculture design.

I love the initial statement by Serafini in the interview:"The design is out there already."This goes to the very core of true and real sustainable design. This is the exactly opposite to the ideologies and the rationality of the 20th century, first and foremost implemented through PLANNING! The ...

Worked as Volunteer Coordinator, Wildlife Sanctuary Caretaker, Kids' Camp Teacher; Costa Rica's Pacific coast.

Our night time pest controller Tom and I were absolutely stumped when we saw an ad on tv (we were away, we do not have television at home, so we are a bit out of touch in regards to commercial tv...). The ad was promoting a little gadget you put in a power point, which then regularly sprays "sme...