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La Meule Permaculture Farm

La Meule Permaculture Farm
The farm is named “La Meule” – English meaning: “Grindstone” as a tribute to many generations of labourors and workers who have worked in the valley and who have sharpen their tools on the Old Grindstone found on the property. It symbolises durability in our Mission, sharpness in our Vision, res...
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Planning Permission on its way I hope

Michael Roberts
Here are the terraces. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlUyCX6wUGk&feature=plcp   And here are the prespectives.  

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European Permaculture Convergence

Petra Krubeck
Over 150 people already registered for the convergence and we have now online all the workshops, lectures, events offered and proposed by the participants, as well as the key-note speakers.  
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Medume

Medume
The Medume park is a Permaculture demonstration project with recycling projects
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Out of Suburbia

Richard Grevers
In April we sold our house in town and have managed to rent Rosewood, the community house at the small Katikara eco-community which is across the road from our land. We are working to redevelop the gardens at Katikara and help the community re-emerge from a period of near-dormancy.
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Project urban food forest

Brad Hamilton
Our website http://projecturbanfoodforest.com continues to capture a global foilowing and we have now branched out starting a Facebook page to further place our message into view of the public. Networking with a larger group we plan to not only add updates from our website, but having the facebo...
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Raised Beds, continued

Alexandra Berendt
It's taken me a few weeks, but I've finally done some more work on my raised bed alongside one of my dog pens. As usual, Foxy my Weimaraner girl has been very helpful... Not... Yes, that is horse manure she is sitting on... And yes, she did smell lovely after this effort...
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Desert Food Forest in Dubai gets the green light

Gaina Dunsire
Permission has been granted to develop the food forest/school garden........daunting but exciting!
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Internship curriculum

Zaia Kendall
It is with great pleasure that we announce our internship curriculum! We feel that we have included the most important subjects that people need to know in order to start living sustainably and more self reliant. We are very excited about having two wonderful teachers coming to teach tw...
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Things I've learnt about chickens!

Alexandra Berendt
So I've lived with chooks before, it just seems I never took much notice! I know they lay eggs and their meat tastes nice but I also know about some of the horrible conditions they are kept in commercially, including battery hens. I also know that I really REALLY like to eat chicken products. So...
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DESC Desert Food Forest

DESC Desert Food Forest
Transforming a High School's outdoor concrete ampitheatre into a Desert Forest Garden in Dubai
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After my first month cultivating and getting experience

Christoffer Zirkeldreher
Hey here is my first update http://zdgarten.jimdo.com/2012/07/06/fortschritt-in-meinem-garten/
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Latest VDL newsletter

Mari Korhonen
It is all happening on our farm. Now we are reaping the grains (wheat, oats, barley and rye). We have cows grazing on the property per holistic management methods, with the egrets following, to sanitize and spread manure. We are reaping the chícharo and lupine, carrots, turnips, zucchini, ...
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Llanrhaeadr Community Energy Project

Steve Jones
As part of a local energy project we have audited 10 housing types in our village for their energy performance, and looked at teh best options fo energy generation for our community. One the back of this study we are preparing to launch a community owned hydro initiative. www.llanrhaeadr.org.uk
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Permaculture goes on NHK, Japan's National TV

Kevin Thien
Misumi Ecovillage Saihate goes on NHK and gets "Permaculture" to reach a wide audience twice !. (Watch "permaculture" written at 4m10s on the Youtube and the NHK video) Watch the recorded show here : (1) Youtubized version of the show aired on 4/7/2012 (2) Official NHK online video of the sh...
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Garden City Community Garden

Garden City Community Garden
The Garden City Community Garden is located in a mountain community located in Xindian, northern Taiwan. It is a permaculture project initiated by Tammy Turner to bring members of our community together to create a shared space for gardening, growing food, natural building and using materials fou...
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Kay's Garden Report - 2 July

Kay Baxter
We are eating a huge range of winter salad greens, endive, Winter lettuce, Joe’s lettuce, Miner’s lettuce, parsley, coriander, fennel, corn salad, spinach. We’re also eating a range of carrots, beetroot, Aomaru Koshun daikon turnips both Ohno Red and Henry’s White, plus loads of ferments ...
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