Just before the first turn I decided to record the temperature of the heap, so the data is incomplete. I will do it again soon, but perhaps with a proper data logger to save a lot of time.
Major ingredients are sugarcane mulch, horse
manure, coffee grounds, wood chips and food scraps. There is...
After I retired in 2002 I was given a large batch of hybrid chestnuts experimentally bred in Antrim County, Michigan for blight resistance. No one there had the time or inclination to plant them or even maintain the records necessary to continue the breeding experiments. I now have a small numb...
The Chook manure and sawdust pile
Some time ago Tom spend a considerable amount of time concreting the floors in our chook pens, where our chooks sleep at night. We cover the concreted floors with sawdust, which is emptied out regularly and replaced with fresh sawdust for our little egg produc...
At long last we got a swarm from the old "National" broodbox that had sat empty for several years and had been adopted as its home by a natural (feral?) swarm last year.
This is what we found in one of our apple trees on Monday afternoon, only a few metres from the old hive:
This may or may n...
Written by my bride to be, Taiga Marthens:
Hi!Are
you all ready for an update from the sweltering back woods of
Missouri? Yes, we are alive and have not melted away and at least we
are not evacuated from our homes due to fire or threat of. There is so
much to be grateful for, and in this...
We hope to have the plot surveyed in the weeks to come. Soon after we expect to plant the living fence, in order to have that one growing while we design our future. Then groundworks will be laid out, after which the planting can begin!
No dia 06 de julho de 2012, ocorreu no Auditório do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará – IFCE / Campus Sobral, a palestra intitulada Permacultura: Resíduos Sólidos em Assentamentos Humanos Sustentáveis. A ação fez parte da programação da IV Semana do Meio Ambiente do IFC...
O minicurso foi realizado nos dias 20 e 22 de Junho, de 18h30min às 22h00min, e dia 23 de junho, de 08h00min às 17h00min, na Escola EducarSESC – Sobral. O curso teve momentos teóricos e práticos, onde tivemos a oportunidade de conhecer, aproveitar e co-construir um espaço onde são desenvolvidas...
PDC PLUS with BERNARD ALONSO
join us for this amazing course with Bernard Alonso and international Team
Hands on learning while 'creating a useful design' benefiting the local community towards sustainable living in Sesimbra region.
PDC Plus is a 72hr 'Permaculture Design Certificat...
An amazing method to explain the difficult "key point" and "key lines" concept;
Aranya's and Pietro Zuchhetti's sense of humor helped very much to improve our personnal skills concerning permacultural way of observation, designing, action and retroaction...
Many thanks to them and the inc...