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...

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This collaboration marks the first time my name has been put forward as someone who knows about permaculture. I am using the opportunity to help the garden and to gain some more experience through our shared hugelkultur experiment. It will be great to see if and when the mushrooms grow, and als...

HPC is a grass roots organisation implementing integrated community development programs in remote and marginalised regions of Nepal. It works farmer-to-farmer providing demonstration and training in sustainable agriculture and appropriate technology.

I have a lot of this weed in my garden and I think a lot of people have so I thought it would be helpfull to share my experiences. If you really want to get rid of it you have to cover the whole patch with darkcoloured plastic or ground cloth during a year. This will wear the roots out and the p...

Observation, research and planning have been occurring here since mid-2006. We live a three and a half hour drive away, and visit on average once a month. For the first year, we thought we had bought a hill that was just dust and rocks - no ground cover or grass of any sort. It was DRY! A two-wh...

Episode 1 here for international Permaculture Day!05/06/20120 Comments  Well its been over 6 weeks since we embarked on our adventures, and what better way to celebrate International Permaculture Day than to share with you the first part of our trip!  We've got Episode 1 up here finally aft...

18 Day compost For people who are aware of the need for change in the world, the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast is an educational facility that encourages change to a sustainable, self reliant and abundant lifestyle to benefit self, others and the earth. PRI-SC’s Permac...

Além de produzir alimentos, retmoar o velho hábito de cozinhar em casa é uma postura permacultural e autônoma. No blog da Casa da Montanha mostramos o passo a passo do processo de fazer requeijão em casa a partir de leite fresco.

Permaculture design course in September will feature Thailand’s traditional agricultural systems, sustainable living and edible forest gardens A two-week permacultural design course will be held in Thailand from 23 September to 7 October at the organic farm of the award-winning eco resort Fa...

Originally published in The Atlantic Magazine: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/the-green-intifada-how-palestinians-resist-occupation-by-planting-trees/254228/ Early last spring, Maher Abu Seba'a planted 240 olive trees on his plot of land outside al-Khader, a small Arab ...

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My wife and I founded a democratic school in Brussels, Belgium, some five years ago. Some basic principles of the school are freedom of choice, democracy, intrinsic motivation, interaction (more on this link). It's not funded or even recognised by any government because we do not, nor do we want ...

Have installed shed and tank ready for the winters rain hopefully 4000 litres will be enough to start making some progress with my proposed food forest. As you can see in pic tank is located top of hill so I'm able to set up a gravity fed irrigation system on a timer. This Sunday is National Pe...

As mentioned earlier we planted Acacia saligna around proposed Food Forest site to act as a windbreak and to help start fixing nitrogen as well as a possible mulching source. The dry hot summer down here is really harsh and only about 40-50% have survived so have ordered more this year and will ...

I have quite a few photos to update you all with! I will get to it soon but, you can have a sqiz on my FB Regeneration Nation page :)