I would like to start off by saying how much I love Australia. The people are great, there is a lot of opportunity here for everyone and we have a lot of space and an enormous amount of wealth. Unfortunately, this also means that people become complacent.   I was born and grew up in Eu...

The new year has come in with a new (and what appears urgent) motivation to move the acre I live on into complete sustainability.   What existed before my internship: -a polycultural orchard (32 fruit trees of various types) irrigated by a grey water manifold system from the Aqua Nova biocycle...

Primarily a nursery and homestead based on permaculture principles. We are creating demonstrations of best practices for our climate and propagating the best plants for these systems we can find.

email rob.bartrum@gmail.com and tell us about yourself and we'll see if we can help =)

Since 2005 we have established and maintained a number of gardens in private homes. The customer relationship is paramount to the development of a permaculture garden or natural

The Cwm Harry organsiation is concerned with the nutrient cycle and has developed a food waste composting facility in Newtwon Powys. More recently we have developed a community garden on the back lot of the factiry, where we are developing a garden and creating volunteerig and learning opportun...

You might remember this post from the New England Cheese Making Supply Company… they liked our ‘How to make brie cheese at home’ post so much they posted it on their site and sent us a Mozzarella & Ricotta kit.  We were so excited to try another type of cheese at home so this post is how we m...

A unique opportunity to study permaculture in Sweden with Richard from Integralpermanence. July 5-19 at Grävsta gård outside Järna in the beautiful Södermanland, south of Stockholm.  

How Do I Get Started in Aquaculture? CCRES AQUAPONICS              As part of our aquaculture initiative, the Croatian Center of Renewable Energy Sources (CCRES) has started the CCRES aquaponics  program. This Web site is part of that program. We have attempted to include as much informati...

Last year I spent 10 months working within a Filipino NGO (PAGBAG-O) that is a federation of people's organisations made up of small-scale farmers. There are approximately 2000 farmers who are members of this organisation which has been implementing programs to help them develop sustainable ...

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Our site is near a big forest, sometimes is a problem because wild animals enter and damage our fruit trees, but sometimes we find beautiful images like the ones attached. This trunk is adjacent to the edge we have with the forest: This is the basis of a trunk, between the ivy we see tiny whit...

I am on the the Board of the Mile High Business Alliance. The Alliance is a trade organization for local businesses based on the premise that money circulating locally benefits the whole community compared to money spent into the global economy. The Alliance asks the community to support...

As I write, and look back at these updates, I wonder-how realistic is my planning?  As I think my direction will go this way...and it goes that way.  How can anything work out, when so often what I think will happen, and what actually happens are so different?  Yet whether due to my ineptitude, o...

Despite describing Permaculture incorrectly as a 'UK charity,' I was delighted to see that a co-written article on the school garden made it into the February issue of You! - a leading magazine for expat women in Dubai. Some of the key principles and ethics of Permaculture were briefly explaine...

Conventional agriculture, also referred to as chemical, intensive, or modern farming, on the other hand ends up coercing and exploiting nature in the name of maximizing food production. It is a constant struggle against the natural processes in which man has to overcome nature. Its underlying pri...