One of the most important things in the permaculture world is community and networking. This is so much easier achieved by creating, or becoming a member of, a local permaculture group. We are lucky enough to be situated right in between 2 local permaculture groups: Permaculture Gympie and Perma...

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On National Permaculture Day my family and I decided to make a paddock worm farm similar to the one seen on the Gourmet Farmer first we added some manure and compost then mixed in some straw, then we parted the straw and added our worms then covered over with more straw and covered the whole area...

We are in the planning phase of organizing our first permaculture workshops at Art Farm in Bugaba, Chiriqui, Panama in January 2013. We'd like to offer two classes, the first for visitors who would like to learn more about tropical permaculture on a working farm in the lowland web tropics. This w...

In 2011 Don, our bee keeper team member, was a part time entrepreneur trying to break into the business of beekeeping after hours at his paying job. His son was between jobs and between them they managed to gather four swarms. After an eventful summer, Don had five strong colonies going ...

We build our house low cost, with wood, strawbales, loam, cordwood and a lot of recycled materials. Its building did cost about half as much as a usual home of its size and it shows an  extraordinary insulation and passive solar performance. With  solar energy panels on the roof we already...

I'm keen to hear your ideas around this.. if we are designing an urban garden or even a 1/4 acre garden, what ideas could work to provide us with 10,000 IU's per day of Vitamin A? Without this Vitamin A our bodies are unable to absorb the minerals we also need sp I believe  it is critical for o...

When i teach workshops and when I'm working in my garden  have always felt a need for some kind of guide to help get things well planned. If we are to seriously be growing all the food to feed our families we have the task of creating new polycultures, or guilds of plants that grow together, crop...

The last two days ofour Appropraite TecnologyWorkshop is a brain storm of a group of people to come up with strategies and tecniques that could work in  NZ for those of us wanting to build legally, very cheaply, using local materials aad mostly unskilled labour. We have Graeme North (earth build...

We have Graeme North NZ's well known Earth Building architect, Peter West, an inspiring and supportive engineer, Zac a builder who no longer wishes to work in the industrial building scene, but who wishes to  support the team to create legal, local, simple cheap and beautiful ( indigenous) buildi...

The trasnformation of a derelict traditional North Wales smallholding, into a world it once new.. A vibrant, productive and sustainable life.. Come and join, enjoy, learn and help us with this transformation...

Our choko harvest with the vine in the background. This incredible vine has come into abundance! Beautiful, large and heavy chokos are picked off our vine which drapes over our water tank.  Chokos are on Isabell Shipard's list of survival foods, they can be eaten raw, steamed, roasted, pickled a...

A permacultural and agroecological interdisciplinary space to research, experimentation and teaching in a Public Federal University.

Bill Mollison and David Holmgren developed permaculture through a combination of years of study and observation, many late nights discussion and practical testing in the field (in fact it was a garden!) What has emerged since is a powerful n...

Third Millennium Alliance is a nonprofit organization working to preserve the last remnants of Pacific Equatorial Forest in coastal Ecuador, and the wide range of endangered and endemic species therein contained.

Lately I've been helping Nicole and Nick in building a cubby house (military fortress) for the kids in their backyard, out of  sand, gravel, clay, and bags ! It is such an interesting building method, because 1st of all, its fun, well it is tiring, but because you are working with a group of peo...