Photo: Heinz-Josef Lücking
Go directly to her excellent photo-graphic alcove show here:- ALCOVE - MY FAVOURITE SLEEPING PLACE Really refreshing to see this in these continental-bed-times, awful and anxiety-generating as they are.Hope you know about the two stars alexandrine p...
"Architects design the physical setting in which social life goes forward. If the material world is what there is, and there are no higher goods, then architects, who create the order of that world, take the place of God. In the modern world the creative visionary architect is therefore a natural...
Clip from the new "Surviving Collapse - Designing your way to Abundance" is a story on how Geoff Lawton discovered permaculture and what he did to prepare for any global crisis. Survival is not just about hoarding food but building stability and abundance into a natural food forest system. Geof...
Last week Friday we had a severe hail storm. It was the second one in a matter of a week and a half.
It was so severe that most of the nails on my tin roof were loosen and my house leaked like a reed basket.
We were left with no power for 48hours and in my case with no water as we use an elect...
a good friend of my Craig Gallagher had been working at Wadeye NT for 12 months when a contract to [landscape] the new boarding house for remote high school student came up
so he put in a quote, under the conventional lawns and sprinkelers price ,but as it was the fedaral goverment funding the...
Hello friends and supporters of KarunaWe have just launched a crowd funding campaign to help raise funds for the long awaited straw bale roundhouse at Karuna.Please follow the link to our project, watch the video, read the information and back the the project
http://www.sponsume.com/project/rou...
For many of us, playing outside and getting our hands dirty in the garden are some of our most precious childhood memories, where we learnt about the wonders of nature and life! In the city, or high up on an apartment balcony, these experiences are rarely available.
Your child will create a mi...
Teddy standing (or should I say hanging) guard by the entrance to the vegie garden against the bush turkeys
A good friend of mine had a problem with a Bush Turkey (also called Scrub Turkeys, Bush Chooks and I am sure a number of other names not suitable for publication...) The Bush Turkey had de...
Spraying Pro-biotic in the vegie garden
360 Litres of Bio Fertiliser, 160 Litres of pro-biotic (compost tea) and 2 1/2 cubic metres of compost was made, and tonnes of information was gleaned from the brain of this amazing teacher.
Like baking a cake: compost building
Paul showed everyone his...
It's mid-November and today we have eaten our last Hokkaido pumpkin, nicely roasted with one of our free-range roosters. Some herbs and the Swiss chard are still growing in the polytunnel but the first frost on October 6 killed off any of the more tender plants.
Irish people talk about the weat...
Mesa Harmony Garden is a non-profit project run by volunteers, which has transformed a once desolate and unused piece of land into a community food forest. With over 120 fruit trees on 2/3 acre, along with raised beds, this is a demonstration garden, and the produce is donated to our local Foodba...
Anna and me finally decided to teach a full PDC.
We set to do so in August this year at the Fattoria, were I work. We had also Francesca and Roberta on board, to help along and theach a couple of modules and learn how to teach.
18 people attended and in total on the farm we were 35. Quite a big...
