To celebrate International Permaculture Day on Sunday it's great to announce that we're reprinting the original Farmers' Handbook in Nepali. It came out in 2001 and in 2002 the English translated 40+ chapters went online (http://permaculture.org.au/2010/01/06/farmers-handbook/) and the 5 vo...

As part of a 3 week science inquiry program for grade 9 students, we employ an aquaponics system to test hypothesis on water conservation, and water filtration.

With winter coming up, Tom needs to fill our woodshed again, to ensure we have enough to run our woodstove through winter. Our woodstove cooks our food as well as provides warmth in winter.In the past Tom has had to saw smaller logs by balancing them on some other logs on the ground, with a large...

Santa Isabel do Rio Preto is a village belonging to the county of Valença, with a population of three thousand, that is located 170 kilometers from the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and 50 kilometers from Volta Redonda and Barra Mansa. It is important to note that between Santa Isabel do Rio Pr...

The week started in the rhythm of the desert: "Shwai shwai" that's Arabic for slowly, slowly. We gathered back at the village after a nice weekend when we each had our own adventures around Israel and started our week with some coffee, tea and more spoken Arabic lessons. Then, after lunch we adde...

Regenerative design....

A big thank you to Denis for the warm welcome we received in Vezenobres, south of France.  Denis has the oldest agroforestry site in France, more photos are available on our travel log 

The week started in the rhythm of the desert: "Shwai shwai" that's Arabic for slowly, slowly. We gathered back at the village after a nice weekend when we each had our own adventures around Israel and started our week with some coffee, tea and more spoken Arabic lessons. Then, after lunch we adde...

so back to south africa   after having spend a full year in france on my family's propety, i decided to come back in the south hemisphere.with my beautiful wife, we decided to stay in s.a for differents raisons, and actually, i like it. i like the harsh conditions of climate that bring chalenge...

Permaculture design in Martinique island, Caribbean. Food forest, veggie garden, breeding, beekeeping.

The Yunus Emre farm's project is now in the Indiegogo website which is a plateform helping projects to get KNOWN HELPED SUPPORTED maybe SHARED and eventually FUNDED  So you will find there a nice presentation of the farm and ways about HOW you can HELP  or- and INVOLVE yourself in the project if...

Hello this is a VIDEO of the farm .. to show you the place activities and hopefully to help you FEEL what is happening there... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp7oo6h2nfI Hope you enjoy  Om shanti Isabelle

The course will focus on  farming in harmony with nature, featuring sustainable living systems, site analysis and mapping  and creating regenerative relationships between plants, animals and humans. It will be based at White Water Lake, an integrated organic farm and nature sanctuary established ...

Faasai Resort and Spa, an award-winning eco-resort in Thailand, has extensive organic gardens at the resort which showcase local trees and an edible forest garden, as well as vegetable and herb gardens. They are also developing a nearby nature sanctuary with a lake and wetlands with an integrated...

Back in March we visited our old friends Adam and Jess down in Devon at the Dartington estate, home to Adam's social enterprise growing gourmet mushrooms from the Totnes cafe waste streams.  Adam has evolved a very pragmatic approach to turning problems into solutions and his model and vision for...

A group of 6 loam "believers" did a great job. We finished the plaster ( render) of all the inner walls of our zone 1. It was rewarding too. Not only that we learned a lot about that fantastic material, loam, clay, mud whatever you call it in your english in your part of the world. We did a grea...