By revitalizing our land in the Amazon Rainforest through permaculture and agroforestry techniques, Eco Ola fosters the development of a wildlife corridor. Here you see a very tiny frog hidden among pandilla seeds. Because many creatures of the Amazon are quite small, the spread of our 'beyond or...

PermaSculpture park integrating food forest design with outdoor sculpture.

In conjunction with Nick Huggins we've begun our first Canberra based PDC.  18 great students, really keen to learn.

"Valley View" is a pig and grazing based Permaculture project located in the Bredbo River Valley.

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Observation: Stream invaded by mimosas, no water running from spring to outumn. Area 3,5 hectares. Design: Focus on regenerate the soils, speeding the sucession as key for bring the forest back. First fase was designing and implement the water catchment, that will supply ferrocimento tank and h...

Restauration of an open air theater from the 1930s

Applied Watershed Restoration at Quail Springs Permaculture.  Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2012 Join us for the first Applied Watershed Restoration course to be held at Quail Springs Permaculture.  The setting for this course is perfect and will provide unique opportunities to understand how watershed-scal...

Edible forest garden and home permaculture site.

http://www.eco-ola.com/2012/09/30/amazon-women-working-together-microfinance/ Eco Ola's Peruvian founder, Carla Noain, is a businesswoman that makes care and compassion priorities for our operations. Not only does she exemplify the next generation of female entrepreneurs leading the way in susta...

Websites: Suncalc.net - Map sun directions for a location. forestfarm.com - Store and plant database. Really good search function (search by edibility!).   Software: Android phone/Tablet: Sundroid iPhone/iPad: SunSeeker 3D Apple: Apple Picker :)  Hardware: American made Woodsmans Pal Cla...

Inspired by other bloggers, i wanted to try my luck with the much acclaimed lettuce tree. Reported challenges have been to keep the soil in the upper part from drying out. Alright, off i go to the hardware store again. This time, spending 3.50 Euro for the polypropylene pipe (15 cm diameter) do ...

The intention is to establish an urban garden in the city centre of Hamburg, where people can go during their lunch break and sit in an enjoyable atmosphere. The garden will be designed along permaculture principles. A side goal of the project is to raise awareness about the potential of urban ga...

SlowDownFarm will feature a mix of design ideas around water storage and food forest guilds.

In the construction of the raised beds i followed the basic method. Four 80 cm stakes for the corners and tongue and groove boards. These boards were the very cheapest i could find at the hardware store, but still - they cost me ~70 Euros. Unfortunately i couldn't find any old boards that i could...

Open to all students regardless of prior experience or education. This course is designed to teach you the basic concepts of permaculture and then directly show you how they can be applied to any site. You will leave here knowing, not only how to implement the permaculture techniques but also...

Just completed my PDC training at Midwest Permaculture.  I feel like I'm looking at (and thinking about) everything with a better perspective and a new set of tools to go forth and do good in my little corner of the world. . . here I go . . .

When we took on the "Eco-garden" project as described earlier we separated it from the rest or our existing property which is an urban residential segment and an adjoining lot with a traditional commuity garden. Somehow we separated the Eco-garden and called that our "permaculture site" -- but we...