Midwest Permaculture is in the early stages of implementing a full permaculture design in partnership with Center for Sustainable Community on their 8.7 acre property adjoining the community of Stelle, IL. PDC Design Courses, various workshops and work-party days are all hosted throughout the yea...

Fish pond was dug at the beginning of the process of setting up a test site. The primary task of the pond was to drain ground water from a wetland area around the house. In accordance with the principle of integration of functions, we decided to introduce fish to the pond and combine it with the ...

i just returned from the permaculture course in sri lanka, which was quite interessting and gave me some insight into the problematics and advantages of humid tropics;we (european and sighalese participants both) also learned (of course with the singhalese participants help) about traditional way...

The Broadwell Hill Learning Center and Sustainable Forest Stewardship Project...more info to come.

How about a community picnic geodesic dome?

RESEARCH, CREATE, TRANSFORM...IN THE WORKSHOP SCHEDULE: 1 Micro-systems design 2 Basics of small scale composting3 Growing in containers (Earthbox)4 Mushrooms in permaculture5 The theory and practice of creating green roofs and terraces6 Living Machine water treatment on the balcony7 Vertical farms

On the occasion of the celebration of 117 anniversary of the birth of R. Buckminster Fuller (born 12 July 1895.) TRANSITION Foundation invites you to Bucky Open Days photo report. Following the example of Fuller, we ask ourselves whether ypu can live differently on this "little blue spaceship cal...

First Camp at PPRI 2012: Water collected from the rain and purified with the use of Living Machine Cooking on a Portable Rocket Stove Set (five small scale rocket stoves partially buried in the ground) Compost and solar heated shower Compost toilet for human waste processing And a very old s...

Compost Heat Generator is a very low cost technology for harvesting sustainable energy from plant biomass without any combustion process. All you need is to form a compost pile around an acummulation tank and introduce a spiral made from plastic tubing. The one below was made in September 2012. T...

Apples, pears, plums, cherries, grapes, wild grapes, wild rose, black elderberry, tons of firewood, mushrooms, maple sap, herbs and wealth of green 'weeds' for salads :) And protection against summer heat and winter frost for your house. Forest garden produces everything by itself, while recyclin...

Simple to make, cost effective and energy (fire wood) saving - Portable Rocket Stove. This one was made during first permaculture workshops held in PPRI.

Polish Permaculture Research Institute is a demonstration project of TRANSFORMACJA Foundation (http://transformacja.org/pl/). The scope of this project is to collaborate with local communities around the concept of establishing new forms of sustainable economy and agriculture through the developm...

Summer is almost over, and the garden is still in a full bloom!

We've got mushrooms. This spring a bunch of morel mushrooms popped out on the surface of straw mulch. These were delicious

We've started with desert (photo 1) Now it is green and alive!

The Permaculture Mandala Garden 'Circles of Nature' is an example of how much can be achieved through permaculture design in a very short time. Already, in the second year from the establishment of the garden/TF-Test Site, it provides fruits and vegetables for a family of five.