This project is ongoing, changing and growing. Before the project began, the landscape was parched and dry with very few plants. Each year I carve out another section to plant more trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals. All of the plants are useful and have multiple functions. Almost all are...

A major element of the diploma with Richard is that the students are supporting each other through forums, support guilds and keeping our portfolios live accessable to each other. Having the projects online hopefully can help and inspire others (open source stylee), and keep learning free and ful...

All of Tamara's blogs of the Planetary Permacuture Pilgrimage are here - you'll need to press older blogs at the bottom to see the very early ones! http://tamaraandduckyhaveadventures.blogspot.com you can click on Planetary Permacuture Pilgrimage on the side and see only the PPP blogs!!

It's quite a straight forward job, I have designed several projects but this is a novel one. It's is a straight forward brief, but rather than designing a system, is more about tweeking an existing design rather than starting a whole new one. The client is known to me as is the site. It consist...

Food security through biodiversity Advanced Permaculture Design Course;  Agroforestry and Systems Design on the Permaculture Farm Maya Mountain Research Farm Belize, Central America   March 4-10, 2012  Contact Christopher Nesbitt christopher.nesbitt@mrfbz.org for info or an application.  h...

 7th Annual Pernaculture Design Course February 21st through  March 4th, 2012 Place: Maya Mountain Research Farm San Pedro Columbia, BELIZE   Instructors: Albert Bates, Andrew Leslie Phillips, Ciff Davis, Christopher Nesbitt & local guest instructors. Cost:USD1250/Belize$2500 includes ...

Over the last year we have spent an average of $20 per month on electricity (this includes the line charge) and a total of $20 on rubbish fees. I am calling it 20/20 hindsight. Find out more at: http://www.ecothriftydoup.blogspot.com/

More informations can be found in portuguese on the page: http://permaculturaportugal.ning.com/events/introdu-o-permacultura-na-aldeia-das-amoreiras The program includes visits to real life design models used by the Amoreiras villagers.  

a farm, which, with diversity and development modelled upon permaculture principles, can demonstrate economic viability for its owners, and serve as a teaching and learning experience for its owners, visitors, clients, neighbours and friends

Conversion of family farm to organic-permaculture, with particular interest in removal of reliance on oil inputs.

Just planted the Fall edible plantings of gogi berries, jujubes, serviceberries, american persimmons, goumi berries and additional black currants. The black currants seem to be hardier than the red variety and not as appealing to the grasshoppers that love to eat the red currant foliage. Need to ...

Chapter 4   Every Dollar your neighborhood saves producing something for yourselves, is a Dollar that can be invested in more capacity to produce for yourselves. That is the feed back loop that will bring our systems back from the brink of disaster.   The problems we face are systemi...

After starting the week with a lesson on water harvesting, the PDC moved to focus on the students design time. My role was one of support and mentorship to the 25 guys, broken by a few lessons and some site visits. It was great to see the students start to really piece it together over several ...

Gaia Radio: And Interview with Charles Eisenstein Enviado por Grifen Hope el Jue, 08/12/2011 - 01:48.  gaia radio gaia university Start: 13/12/2011 - 10:00End: 13/12/2011 - 11:30 Charles Eisenstein | Sacred Economics Thrive Now Webinar series: An ...

So the other part of my dreams beside creating and owning a productive permaculture food forest is also to work in film. I think I've got the right idea because for a naturally fussy person who doesn't want to work in just anything I don't even care if I'm simply running errands or making coffee ...

      Matt Kilby, the ‘man of a thousand trees‘, shares thoughts with ABC Rural on his work (with Nick Huggins alongside) over the last 18 months at Nambrock, a property in Gippsland, southern Victoria, Australia. Read more here.

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