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Koanga Institute Spring Permaculture Design Course

Bob Corker
Permaculture Design Course Tutors: Bob Corker (Koanga Institute) Kay Baxter (Koanga Institute) Dan Palmer (Very Edible Gardens) Tim Barker (PRI Australia) Location: Koanga Institute, Wairoa.Price: $1900 Dates: February 3-15 Two weeks of immersive class room learning with...
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Koanga Institute Spring Internship Program

Bob Corker
    Koanga Spring Internship Livelihoods and Self-Reliance in Gardening and Nutrient Dense Food Tutors: Kay Baxter, Nathan Foote, Emma Cowan, Dan Palmer, Taiamai Corker, Bob Corker Location: Koanga Institute,Wairoa Price: NZ$4800 ($3900 for New Zealanders) Dates:...
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Lauburu garden: the concept

Victor Barahona
This is a project we want to do for some time, the reason for the delay is we wanted to ensure a stable supply of water for irrigation. Also we need close the fence to keep out animals. After solving these problems (we’ll talk about them some day) we started with this “mandala garden” but using t...
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CCRES - ALGAE BIOFUELS AND AQUAPONICS

Zeljko Serdar
CCRES - ALGAE BIOFUELS AND AQUAPONICS   CROATIAN CENTER of RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES  (CCRES)   Algae, the Source of Biofuels, and Aquaponics  Algae can be used as important types of biomass materials from which the biofuels can be obtained. Algae absorb the energy from the sun in the pres...

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Solar installation in Indian Creek and Golden Stream

Christopher Nesbitt
This is just to let people know that Yaxche Trust and Maya Mountain Research Farm will be installing two 1.6kw photovoltaic systems in Indian Creek in June. Anyone interested in lending a hand, let me know.
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Ianto Evans's Polyculture

Ute Bohnsack
Inspired by Toby Hemenway's description of Ianto Evans's Polyculture in "Gaia's Garden" I am trying it this year, albeit in our polytunnel. We are in the West in Ireland and this spring it has been unusually cold, except for a very warm spell in the week before Easter. It was still unseas...
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Scagnello-Italy PDC with Lesley Byrne and Pietro Zucchetti

Pietro Zucchetti
This practical course will bring the possibility of significant and positive life changes. Although permaculture is most commonly thought about in connection with gardening & farming, its principles, ethics and design methods can be adapted and used in each individual's own work, interest...
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summer camps at the hermitage of Malin (Romania

philippe coupe
) For those tempted by a trip to the beautiful Romanian Carpathians, the hermitage of Malin (www.ermitajmalin.ro), isolated farm in a small valley in northern Transylvania and Permaculture Design Course organizer of each September with Pascal Depienne (Brin de Paille) invites you to the c...
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The House Is Here!

Kelly Brown
We have the house! We met the transportation guy at the builder’s this morning about ten o’clock. After the builder was paid, he loaded it up and moved it. Watching him load the building was incredible. He has a big pickup with a long trailer that jacks up. He positioned the trailer so that th...

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Laughing Bird Farm

Laughing Bird Farm
Laughing Bird Farm is a 10 acre developing permaculture farm in rural Summertown Tennessee.
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Still just mostly reading and trying not to feel initmidated by it all.

Jane Kobres
This is the first of a three-part video in which Bates discusses his book, "The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and Climate Change (Sustainable Agriculture)," which he really wanted to title "Beyond Zero." Here's the link to the first segment:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPOcPwxrUqQ&featu...
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Escola da Terra

Escola da Terra
A Escola da Terra é uma iniciativa que busca difundir as tecnologias e conceitos de conservação ambiental e sustentabilidade. O que motivou a fundação da Escola da Terra foi perceber que os seres humanos desejam aprender novas formas de viver e produzir, sem que nosso Planeta Terra seja degradado.
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INOS - Instituto Nova Ordem em Sustenta...

INOS - Instituto Nova Ordem em Sustentabilidade
Bioconstrução - Biopiscina - Horta Agroecológica - Jardim Agroflorestal - Bacia de Evapo-transpiração - Galinheiro
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PDC at the Greening the Desert Sequel Site, Jordan, with Alex McCausland and Salah Hammad

Nadia  Lawton
Starts Apr 19, 2014 and runs for 13 day(s). This PDC follows the standard accredited 72-hour design course syllabus with running translation into Arabic. All written materials will also be translated. The course covers in detail the ecological basis of Permaculture design, the ethics, the princi...
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Portugal

Sean Cassette
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Zirkeldreher Garten

Zirkeldreher Garten
I'm just starting to develop the garden of my parents to a permaculture / food forest as far as my parents allow my changes ^^
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"Practical Guide BIOsCAMBIO N°1: the bottle sprouter."

Domenico Vitiello
I posted on the site BIOsCAMBIO, it autoproducer for their own consumption and for the gift-exchange of seeds and anything else useful to self, the "Practical Guide BIOsCAMBIO N°1: the bottle sprouter." The guide explains "step by step" a new and originalmethod for self-production plants, from ...
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Vale da Lama Institute, Algarve , Portugal

Lesley Anne Martin
Helping a team of teachers and administrators to create a quality Permaculture Professional Development program for those who want to take the PDC further by way of consultancy, teaching, project management etc. 
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