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Artificial dam

Øystein  Tandberg

Dam september

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A Victory Garden's Second Year in Seven Slide Shows

Joshua Finch
Caution: If you think this is PHOTO HEAVY (which it is), you should see the slide shows. This update will take the viewer through the first half of 2012. Cover cropping is our method of building soil fertility, initiating habitat requirements for beneficial organisms, and generally being a great...
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Aldeia Do Vale

Aldeia Do Vale
Núcleo Ambiental da Associação Circuito Explosivo. Este projecto nasce em 2016 com a vontade de mudar algumas coisas no mundo em que vivemos! Somos um centro de investigação na área da sustentabilidade com formações nos domínios da permacultura, agroecologia, agricultura regenerativa, const...
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Research, research, research ... what is the perfect garden design?

Fiona Plsek
With soil and nutrients erroding down slope, the next challenge was to determine the best design that would suit the slope and the existing trees.  Probably important to note at this point .... I HATE GRASS! Actually lawn to be precise. A naturally grassed area is important as a design element i...

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14th and Prince Ed

14th and Prince Ed
This 500 square foot site in Vancouver is pretty much a blank canvas. It's what they call, a corner bulge and has to have a water infiltration section to filter water before going into the storm water system.
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note on the nordic permaculture festival in Sweden

João Gonçalves
Pic. 1 - The vegetables and herbs gardens at Angsbacka. This picture belongs to http://browngoesgreen.files.wordpress.com Recently, with my friend Stuart Pledger, i've been blessed with the opportunity to attend the Nordic Permaculture Festival held at Angsbacka - Sweden. http://angsbacka.or...
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Building community through music

Zaia Kendall
Kkarimba at Lake MacDonald amphitheatre 7 Years ago I was lucky enough to be asked whether I wanted to learn how to play a marimba with other members of the community. The marimba is a diatonic xylophone style instrument with wooden keys and piped resonators.I liked playing other percussion in...
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ape99.org @ Tillery Park

ape99.org @ Tillery Park
Commercial permaculture demo site within Tillery Park - a unique small business park.
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Courses

We've run a few courses over the last three years. This has enabled the community to network together, learn and grow. Watch this space for more information on future courses starting in 2013 =)If you have any ideas on what you'd like to learn about, let us know!  

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Terraces on convex rocky ridge slopes

João Gonçalves
Terraces ... on convex ridge and valley slopes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrace_%28agriculture%29 "In agriculture, a terrace is a piece of sloped plane that has been cut into a series of successively receding flat surfaces or platforms, which resemble steps, for the purposes of mor...
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Planting Inspiration for our Food Forest

Brad Hamilton
Food forests for me are the most fascinating eco-system which can be recreated in our tiny backyards They don't require us, as a human race to tend it's needs nor control the way it survives. For me I never intended to set out and reinvent the wheel so to speak. I didn't even think years ...
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Growing Broccoli and Cauliflower

Lisa Mahon
We like eating broccoli, cauliflower, kale and cabbages.They can be a hard crop to grow organically. Most of the time if the soil is balanced, is providing enough nutrientsand has good drainage and ample water plants do not tend to get attacked bypests. However we still get white cabbage moth but...
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LET'S CONNECT SE Queensland Event

Jane Gapinski
                          Permaculture  Noosa has  initiated a gathering of all Permaculture groups and individuals in SE Queensland to meet  and exchange ideas. LET'S  CONNECT will be held on the 21st October 2012 at Beerwah Community Hall from 9-5pm . All permies in the region ar...
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Coming up on Monday: Self Reliance course

Zaia Kendall
Learn how to fence a paddock to keep animals in or out… The course includes basic but necessary skills like wood harvesting (chainsaw operating), fencing (animal paddocks, keeping wild dogs/foxes out and your domestic animals in), handyman jobs (fittings, welding, fixing things with minimum ou...
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Permaculture Eden

Permaculture Eden
Permaculture Eden is a demonstration site designed for the purpose of education by example.
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Middle East Technical University (METU)...

Middle East Technical University (METU) Permaculture Project
Combining sustainability education and permaculture in an educational sciences doctorate program. Integrating university students.
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Compost, I knew better.

john douglas
  I knew better. Really I did.   I always say if you are going to err when making compost, err on the side of too much air or too much carbon.  Too much water or too much nitrogen and your compost will go ANAEROBIC and it will smell like SHIT, literally. Good compost smells like the fores...
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Compost, I knew better.

john douglas
  I knew better. Really I did.   I always say if you are going to err when making compost, err on the side of too much air or too much carbon.  Too much water or too much nitrogen and your compost will go ANAEROBIC and it will smell like SHIT, literally. Good compost smells like the fores...
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