Over halfway through an inspirational two week Permaculture Design Course at Creation Flame and the energy is only mounting. The first week had us confronting challenging questions about our personal ethics and values, exploring solution based principles and conscientious design methodologies, ex...

Ermineskin Cree Nation Permaculture Garden and Food Forest

In our western scientific culture we like to take things apart and break them down into pieces we can understand. We like to segregate things. We put nature off somewhere in reserves. We put agriculture out in the country. We conduct business downtown at the office. Then we go home to...

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The more I learn about  living simply; about Permaculture Design, about seeds, gardening, food, nutrition, animals and about health and the regeneration of our soils, epigenetics and our own DNA, the more I realize our ‘challenge’  is all about “stepping back into that circle of co-evo...

Big changes in my garden in the past few weeks, * the over wintered carbon crops lupins, oats, flaxseed, barley and tic beans are all heading up to seed and looking strong.once again the brix of the oats is very high and we will have a lot of high quality compost material.* the compost we made la...

Spring is well and truly here! we are all a little scared to feel and acknowledge it after the past 8 months of rain! It is sunny and warm, chicken pumping out eggs, muscovies beginning to nest, along with the Weeder Geese, and bees humming. Lots of preparation for Spring now, beginning ...

The major design elements are fruit trees, root cellar, keyhole garden, hops, and xeriscape.

Of utmost importance is the following point: activities that are a part of permaculture design, such as community gardening, cob oven building and pond construction, are means that achieve multiple ends.  With one single project we can: build community space, beautify space, learn, educate, save ...

We are currently looking for 2 interns, minimum committment of 6 months, to help us develop our ambitious plans for Habiba.  Free food and accomodation will be offered at Habiba Camp on the beachfront approximately 2km from the farm.   One internship is for fundraising and web-development.  If y...

"I'm starting next week to teach an architectural theory course for the Architecture School here. I have planned it so that students can follow much of it online from wherever they are located. http://zeta.math.utsa.edu/~yxk833/archtheory.html After I give each week's lecture (which will take fr...

A basil plant is generally seen in most of the houses in India which is an exclusive distinction of many Indian family. There is also an inherent scientific reason behind it. As tulsi plant is a celestial plant with curative properties, and can revive even a dying person, like the musk. Even inc...

SPIRULINA   photo         by       CCRES      SPIRULINA  Spirulina   is simply  the  world’s most  digestible  natural  source  of  high   quality  protein,  far  surpassing the  protein bio availability of even beef  ( which  most  people  consider  to  be...

6 weeks ago I tried an idea I've been thinking about after putting in willow fences straight from cuttings placed at 45 degrees and woven into each other. So I trieed this concept on a urban "storm water drain" seasonal water course now. So by simply pushing in the cuttings to a depth of 150mm...

The almost bare block of 10 acres has been developed along permaculture lines to create a learning environment for people wanting to know more about self sufficiency. There are opportunities for people to observe and help with growing their own food, seed saving, recycling, renewable energy, ener...

When teaching permaculture and garden design on a 10 acre block, it is sometimes hard to engage the urban garden dweller. This is a project to design and build some urban garden rooms which are the size of standard kiwi suburban sections to show people how much food production they can get into ...

With the Alpine Permaculture Schweibenalp, the currently biggest alpine permaculture project in Switzerland, is developing with 20 hectares at 1100 meters altitude.