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270 Ferry road is a demonstration site which encompasses urban bee keeping, chicken co-ops,provides educational workshops and courses on permaculture,waste streaming and ecosystem services.We have large market and community gardens open to the public. Our bio intensive method of gardening is c...
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Agritourism

Agritourism
We started managing the property to be a hands on farm with agritourism as the end goal. The idea is to provide a working farm that was developed with permaculture philosophies as the basis.
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Fassi Honeycomb

Fassi Honeycomb
The Fassi Honeycomb project aims at demonstrating both a sustainable use of water, instead of the local desastrous practice, and to be an exemple of high-comfort rural living, fighting the Great City Delusion.
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Rosemary Morrow is comming to visit Portugal this April

Helder Valente
Rosemary Morrow is one of the premier Permaculture teacher trainers. She is known for herpragmatic and effective approach to creating Permaculture systems across an incredibly broadrange of environments. With her experience she brings all the qualification to train others inbecoming Permacultur...
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Students sell school's organic waste to parents!

Gaina Dunsire
The school produces so much 'compost tea' from the Bokashi system in place in the school canteen, there is surplus to requirements for the school garden. Therefore in an attempt to intergrate permaculture into the wider school community, I approached the Busness Studies Department and asked if st...
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DEV-COM INC HOMESTEAD

DEV-COM INC HOMESTEAD
DEV-COM INC TRUST has purchased desert land o 5 acres to build small homes using different building techniques.
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(IM)PERMANENCE hits the road!

Richard Perkins
More updates to follow soon, in the meantime you can follow regular updates on our blog http://www.impermanencefilm.org/blog.html
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First PDC course in Dutch Caribbean

Leo Bakx
As part of a larger sustainable community development drive by Statia's people Aardwerk has started work on a programme of workshops and courses. The first of which takes place in July 2012. Wich the friendlij co-operation of local people and organisations like STENAPA, Joshua Spanner's Congo Pre...
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Permaculture Resiliency Project in Namibia with the Kalahari Bushmen

Warren Brush
See the full article with pictures at: Link Permaculture Resiliency Project with the San Bushmen in the Kalahari  Vergenoeg, Namibia By Warren Brush  In a land of contrast, mystery and years of imperialism, a small village of over three-hundred people on the edge of the Kalahari in Namibia ge...

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Chapter 11

David Braden
The API team recently completed our annual events on sheet mulch/hugelkultur. We had a new record, 39 people, participate in one or more of the three events. We created a brand new 400 square foot hugelkultur experiment at the API and an 800 square foot sheet mulch in Sid's front yard. ...

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A small-scale traditional sustainable way to fish

Claudette Fleming
The Kingfisher and indigenous people methods of fishing have one commonality - they are sustainable. No fish is wasted and there is always fish for tomorrow. Traditional lowland indigenous peoples of South America most often fish daily and tend to fish only for the family and maybe other vulner...

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PDC for International Development Professionals and Volunteers

Loren Taylor Luyendyk
June 18th - July 1st, 2012"My learning journey at Quail Springs helped to nurture my presence of mind to be a better and more active listener – a vital trait for the international development professional. The coursework was incredibly pertinent to my work in Uganda and without a doubt ma...

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PDC for International Development Professionals and Volunteers

Loren Taylor Luyendyk
June 18th - July 1st, 2012"My learning journey at Quail Springs helped to nurture my presence of mind to be a better and more active listener – a vital trait for the international development professional. The coursework was incredibly pertinent to my work in Uganda and without a doubt ma...

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Rich People are Unethical

Øyvind Holmstad
EMBED THE IMAGE ABOWE ON YOUR SITE HERE.
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Update on Progress on the Permaculture in Konso Schools Project and our last PDC at Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge, Konso, Ethiopia, in February 2012

Abdur-Rahman McCausland
Our community outreach program, the Permaculture in Konso Schools Project (PKSP) has now been established in 10 schools in Konso, the little south-Ethiopian nation where we are based. The schools project is supported by the Ethiopia Permaculture Foundation (EPF), a charity registered in UK. The P...
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The Sharing Economy

Øyvind Holmstad
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Permaculture Retrofit in the Mary Valley

Permaculture Retrofit in the Mary Valley
Retrofitting a permaculture design on an ex-pineapple farm in the Mary Valley.
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Hydro fracking need info

Danial Lawton
HI looking for any lagitamte information on hydro fracking ie journal articals I am doing a report on hydro fracking and would like to get as much info as i can. This is a concerning issue and i know many of you will have or know someone who has info on this subject.   I do not need comments ...
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