Canary farm is a subsistence farm in transition to a permaculture institute. We offer courses, hands on workshops and a chance to help start a permaculture institute in Atlantic Canada.

Applies bioconversion technology using agricultural wastes for high quality food production, generating incomes, jobs and rich compost for horticulture.

A 72 acre demonstration site with an eventual intentional community planned. Site includes a forest garden, water harvesting, graywater reclamation, animals

We were rather impressed with Joel Salatin when he came to Australia last year. So were one or two other people. Aside from being the most entertaining farmer that we’ve ever met, he’s really onto something. Multiple somethings, even. To call the Salatin’s farming practices at Polyface F...

Trumbuctu ... or a diary’s garden, is an experimental project for a small garden in Permaculture farming.

using recycled materials and permaculture design adapted to home environmets for growing food indoors. eath boxes, hydroponics.

Autonomia é um dos conceitos mais importantes para uma pessoa, seja no manter sua vida, sua família, sua ideologia, sua identidade e seus processos de aprendizagem. Para um permacultor a autonomia passa pela moradia, pela sustentabilidade, pela produção de seus alimentos. Em Yvy Porã, a Casa da...

I completed my diploma after the presentation at the Earthship a week ago.  It has been quite an experience to do the diploma.  I have really enjoyed continuing my permaculture design practice.  And now, I'm done!

Brighton Permaculture Trust's demonstration and educational plot in the scenic Stanmer Park.

I'll add some text later... again (argh). I lost everything just because I hit the back button on my mouse. And had nearly finished it. :'( Okay.. this is only a preview. You can find those photos in large that are part of a little flickr album, with more photos of the recent goings-on. You can ...

Benefits of butter are many, and the bad image butter has had over the past decades is slowly starting to disappear. Butter is extremely good for you, it fights infections, is a great source of certain vitamins and has various other health benefits I will not go into here (just google "benefits o...

“What’s that smell?” asks Chris. “I don’t know. It’s really familiar. It smells like… cat food,” I reply. “It smells like shit,” he says.   It’s 2:30am. We’ve propped ourselves up in bed. It’s dark. The foul smell mingled with my dreams but now we’re both awake. The windows are open and beh...

If women knew diggers looked this good I think swales would pop up like weeds around the globe. Gee whiz. Beats a four-tonne excavator in my books– even if it had a swivel bucket. Chris woke up the other day and declared, “I think I can dig those swales by hand.” “Super,” I said, “go for it!” ...

When Chris and I first got together, he used to wake up to his socks, t-shirts and towels carefully draped over his DJ equipment, where I’d laid them during the night to cover any glowing or flashing lights. A somewhat sensitive sleeper, trying to sleep in a discotech wasn’t my idea of a restfu...

“Andrew, I need to talk to you about something,” I’ve sought out the new president of the Community Garden at Peregian Beach, Andrew Maitland, to ask an important yet delicate question. “Yes?” “It’s about slugs,” “Slugs?” “Yes, I have a lovely, bumper crop of slugs.”   “Ah!” He smiles, no...

"How does a tree make a mango? I’ve never thought about it like that before, but isn’t that crazy? A tree can make a mango!" "Yes, dear,” says Chris. We’re driving around the back streets of Cooroy, getting to know our new extended neighbourhood, and we just passed a grove of mango trees. "No ...

My private residence is my project. And possibly a life-long one at that... Actually, I doubt that'll be the case (I hope!). But seriously, my aim is to grow the best organic food I can to continue healing my digestive system, use smart design to leave a lighter footprint on the earth and con...

I am not a survivalist. Really I’m not. Despite growing up in a family that was so deeply concerned by nuclear threat in the 1980?s that we had pictures of mushroom clouds (framed) in my childhood lounge room, I refuse to concede that my family’s future may involve turning our farm ...