Permaculture is the harmonious integration of all life kingdoms into agriculturally productive ecosystems and socially just environments producing sound economic outcomes through systems management. It is a regenerative design intention reflecting patterns in nature that seeks to build functional...

Want to spend some time doing Permaculture in the tropics?  If these goals match yours, maybe Rak Tamachat is the place for you!  The Goals of the volunteers should be something along these lines: To have a fulfilling experience with Permaculture and community living. To learn by doing. To ...

This full 72-hour certified Permaculture Design Course will be held at the site of a new and exciting permaculture project to the NE of Bangkok, in the province of Korat.  The project had a full integrated permaculture design drawn up, and will be almost one year in on the implementation of that ...

Taking advantage of my ability to summer in the northern region of the lower peninsula of Michigan, I am thuroughly enjoying a summer in the woods! Change has come to Honey Moon Farm, and they are looking to pack up and move as well. The garden is abundant and not being ignored or underapprecia...

Pic. 1 - July - Dry season - Creek descending from the upper-right side and terraced slope facing south-west.       Pic. 2 - July - Dry season - Terraced slope facing southwest, rows of grape vines above retaining walls with a variety of crops, and very few trees, in small patches.     ...

This project context: - Indigenous/traditional/native hamlet community; - Whole families (about 100 people total, about 27 couples, 9 widowed elders); - On-going, for more than 500 hundred years; - Family and community reliance & organic cooperation; - Mountain based livelihood dyna...

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SAVE EARTH is a School of Environmental Design and Bioconstruction that is being born in the southern coast of Santa Catarina. His idea comes from the collective dream of young designers willing to act for a better world. Banded together and formed a collective which proposed the project manager ...

Permaculture Management Positions now available! Where: Rak Tamachat Permaculture farm, rural Thailand   When: Applications now open for four positions for 2012-2013. Applications close 1st November 2012, positions beginning 1st December 2012 and run for 12 months   What: We are lo...

Steaming hot from the pot!! Winter is a great time of year for hotpots; one pot stews with meat and vegies, spiced with a bit of pepper and salt! For this particular hotpot I used 500gr chopped up homegrown beef (you can use any cut, since it is cooked for quite some time it will become soft ...

In the South West of Western Australia a drying climate is leading to lower productivity.  Soil erosion occurs when grass cover is sparse and rain events are so spread out....soil is lost when isolated rain events or wind dislodges dry uncovered soil. Deserts are growing globally. 75 billions of ...

Another month has passed and the polytunnel/hoophouse is getting seriously crowded, at least with vegetative growth, flowers, and insects. I had described the set-up and planting here and the first month of growth here. The weather in July was hardly any better than in June. It continued to ...

Our hosts were Gastwerke community (twenty people plus children trying to live in a non-capitalistic way) and volunteers from German Summer Academy, who managed to create a beautiful place in heart of nature, with a few large tents for the programmes, mobile kitchen, compost toilets, showers, a b...

VALE DAS AROMATICAS – HEAL THE SOIL PORTUGAL : A once in a lifetime chance to be part of the pioneers in establishing a Permaculture Demonstration Farm and Children & Adults Learning Centre in Portugal. You will have the opportunity to play a crucial role in this interesting 1...

NZ Heritage Potatoes in Danger!   Over the past 20 years it has become increasingly apparent that our heritage potatoes are deteriorating (far smaller crops from each potato planted with far more evidence of disease and pest issues), and since the introduction of the psyllid, (which bri...

For 30 years our family has been actively involved in breeding heritage chickens. We were lucky enough to have begun this project whilst there were several old time “chicken men” still around in Northland where we lived then. These guys were the judges at poultry shows and were all abs...

Biodiversity  We are so thrilled at the ever increasing biodiversity on Merri Bee Organic farm.   It is easy to grow a  food forest really  and with some water gardens you can make a  happy place for yourself and many other creatures. Lots of new birds are being heard each year and amazing insect...