I have no idea where this will take me, but I have to start somewhere. Our main business is horses, but I really feel like I have to make a start and focus on becoming self sufficient, making everything more sustainable and create a few permaculture gardens.   We have a big garden and a pasture...

Working with Permaculture principles to create an urban self reliant life in Essex, UK

Got the oppotunity to teach a session on needs, functions and outputs and a general lesson on chickens in permaculture systems on the PDC at Southern Cross Permaculture Institute. It seemed to go OK, I was getting lots of questions and no one fell asleep or looked like I was talking complete non...

The entire world is made up from individual interactions. If any interaction does not take place there is less contributed to the function of the world.   The Sunday after Thanksgiving Don is holding a class on making “bee candy” at the API. Bee candy is supplemental food to keep hives ...

We spent the morning buying the necessary materials for the second rainwater capture system we are going to install at the village: we bought a 1000L plastic tank and hired a plumber to add a faucet at the bottom and drill a hole at the top, and we bought iron sheets to fold and use as gutter...

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Aquaponics in the West Bank During our stay at Bustan Qaraaqa in Palestine, we have been lucky enough to volunteer one day a week with Phil and Lorena from Byspokes on aquaponic systems (their website is where the following information comes from). Aquaponics is a combination of aquaculture,...

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I'm lucky enough to have been given the opotunity to teach a few classes on Southern Cross Permaculture Institutes PDC running from tomorrow. I'll be working alongside Rick and Naomi Coleman as well as Kat Lavers and Virginia Solomon.  Having recently (2 weeks back) completed a PDC teacher train...

?I am currently working this winter, but keeping my eyes open for how I can be involved. Permaculture aid is an initiative that resonates very well with me as it is solutions based, long-term, and eventually self-perpetuationg. ???? I have a range of interests and developing abilities, all centr...

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The first of two permaculture introduction classes was held last Friday.We had 8 people attend the two hour talk on the need for permaculture; the basic ethics and principles; emphasising the tradition and culture here, in Japan, and to learn from these; along with examples of permaculture in pra...

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I've just heard Bill Mollison say in the DVD he's teaching with Geoff Lawton that if we manage to catch as much of the energy flow as possible, we'll doing efficient systems. Of course with time, that will lead us to good designers. A pond is one of the options we have when it comes to store rain...

Abundant organic materials let's no other chance than make use of them :) One of the neighbours cleans some stables, and there's plenty of straw mixed with horse manure and urine..all around there are plenty of so called weeds (many of them can be eaten as well) and a lot of grass clippings from...

Compost Toilets, as far as i feel and think, one of the most important implementations anyone can do in it's place to start changing the way things go in relation to energy usage (and wastage). How important it is, specially in this case, to use as wise and effeciently as possible the resources w...

We are about 10 active people from Hamburg and started our work 3 weeks ago. First we started to make the garden accessable by clearing the overgrown pathways and terrases near around the house. Then we began to harvest apples and finished with about 2 tons yield last weekend. We dug earth cella...