My trip to Ananda Gradinka to tweak elements of the survey I carried out in October perfectly coincided with the arrival of the first proper snow of this winter. I may be a lightweight, but I didn't feel up to digging through knee deep snow to get soil samples. Or tramping the land with my dowsi...

‘If we want to survive on this land we must first help to heal the earth,’ said Nicola Netién, agro-ecologist, teacher and co-creator of the NGO Permaculture Research Institute Hellas. He was talking to a group of some fifty people of all ages who had gathered for two days of workshops on...

A permaculture smallholding and educational centre in early stages of development

Forest gardening, foraging, natural farming, deep ecology, re-wilding, anarchy.

The focus of Sadhana Forest Haiti is water conservation, indigenous re-forestation, organic food growth and the development of ongoing projects to support the needs of the local community in an environmentally sustainable way. We practice an eco-friendly way of life including veganism, organic fo...

Where? Sadhana Forest, Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India When? May 1st - July 27th 2012 Language? The Course will be taught in English Cost? The Course will be free of charge. Accomodation will be provided in exchange for 25 hours of work per week. We ask for a minor contribution to cover the food ...

In Permaculture Aralar have significant height differences, so it is necessary to pump water. We have tried to take advantage of gravity and as result we are able to irrigate 1 / 3 of the site at the moment. In the future we will extend this capability to higher places using renewables. We show n...

Earthway Experience is a Permaculture Demonstration and Learning Center.

Since 2007. Adriana and me, Philippe, are restoring a 8ha farm completely isolated in a wooded valley in northern Romania: forests, pastures and orchards We have a rural touristic lodge with 20 beds and want to become an educational farm in permaculture, self-sufficient for the families who liv...

My plan is to contribute, facilitate and lead their programs in various sustainable programs such as bush conservation, waste management, water management and energy management. I see this is as implementing permaculture in a business environment. I've selected a fulltime schedule which is 12-15...

We held our January monthly lectures on patterns. A lot of patterns can be found in the local traditions here, and are still practised by natural farmers. Everyone has their unique patterns for farming but follow some general ones. More on some of these hopefully in th...

Dear friends of Sadhana Forest, On Friday December 30, Cyclone Thane hit the states of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry with heavy rains and wind speeds of up to 135 kph (83 mph) and tidal surges of up to 1.5 meters (5 feet). The cyclone hit the whole coast from Chennai down to Karaikal. Our d...

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When we were doing our cheese making course back in 2010, Elisabeth Fekonia gave us some kefir grains to take home.  So we’ve been using these friendly microorganisms and yeasts to help balance our inner ecosystem and supply complete protein, essential minerals and vitamins B12, B1 and C. It is a...

Over the course of the next year, infrastructure will be erected, community and teaching spaces will be established and a traditional corn and rice farm will undergo a dramatic metamorphosis. The work here has already begun... and I’d like to take you along for the ride! We arrived on site on a ...

I am the Deputy Chair on the Board of Trustees of the Permaculture association of Britain

We got there the 1st of December: we found the land like (the fist four images). We started to dig the infiltration swale (photo 6), set the place for the lombricompost (photo 7), and made some terraces (photo 8,15). I am posting the photo (photo Nr 5) of the sketch I was doing for the land. Th...

Read the original study here (pdf). Ionized air molecules make up more than a very small percentage of the atmosphere.However, despite their small numbers, these molecules play a profound role in maintaining the health of the atmosphere by removing particulate and chemical pollutants. In the ind...