The first PDC Course was kicked off at Shepherd's House Chapter April 9 and 10 down in Franklin, TN.  There was a geat turnout and a great core group has been established.  Four people will work toward obtaining the PDC by completing the rigorousl 72 hour work and project requirements designed by...

The addition of a camp kitchen and a bush bathroom enable us to offer our courses at more affordable prices. The camp kitchen is available for use, so that students can make their own food. They can bring their own and also sample some of our garden's harvest. The camp kitchen area also has table...

UTSI is proud to host a 9 Day Practical Permaculture Course at Finca Carolina on August 5 to 14, 2011   Take a look at the following link to learn more about this exciting course. http://www.utsi.org/events.html

UTSI is housed at Finca Carolina, a 23 hectare organic farm and nature reserve and organic farm. Andrew Ogden currently manages UTSI’s station in Uvita. The site is surrounded on one side a by a large tract of nationally protected forest (1,000 ha) and by a large (350 ha) private nature reserve o...

Starts Jun 13, 2011 and runs for 5 day(s). To take this course you must have already completed a full Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course.During this intensive 5-day Permaculture Urban Landscape Design course, students will learn the fundamentals of running a professional permaculture d...

Jacmarall Farm - Tarago NSW. Named after my Fathers late uncle 'Jack' my late Grandparents Marjorie & Allan Hall - Settled the contacts today 3rd May 2011. Working on our Holistic Goal and plans for the farms future.

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In the past few months not only did we complete our aquaponics system but we also built a fence around our property boarder, planted a pentagon papaya/banana patch, made a lilikoi trellis, and graded the entire lawn!

We our on our first test run of produce. We are currently growing bok choy, a few varieties of lettuce, over 20 varieties of tomatoes, basil, green beans, sugar peas, peppermint, and cilantro. The challenge for the next few months is to decide what grows best in our system and which products will...

Sobre a parede de pau-a-pique um reboco seguindo as dicas de Jorge Belanko no video "El barro, Las manos, La casa"( bio-construtor de El Bolson - sul da Argentina)  

Wicking boxes can be used either as part of an intensive water-wise growing system, or just a good way to keep those herbs alive that you usually forget to water. And you can make one yourself out of junk for next to nothing! Read More »

This weekends course was advertised as: "In nature, plants don't grow as isolated individuals, but they create communities - guilds of plants, among which social relationships arise. Solitude plants are more the exception than the rule. This tendency of plants to grouping, we can use in designin...

This weekends course was advertised as: "In nature, plants don't grow as isolated individuals, but they create communities - guilds of plants, among which social relationships arise. Solitude plants are more the exception than the rule. This tendency of plants to grouping, we can use in designin...

The course includes a handout of presentation notes, a CD of Permaculture information, and, a starter pack of organic seeds.  This course will empower you to establish your own small Permaculture food garden, as well as, to plan your own Permaculture action based learning pathway.  This course wi...

After four months of transforming an overgrown half acre into a aquaponics system we our proud to show you the results of our hard labor.  

Hi, I'm Quinto. My partner Leticia and I, have just bought a wonderful 4000 sq. meter piece of land near Orgiva (in the Alpujarra, Spain), and we'd love to have permaculture students and teachers come and enjoy the land and share their knowledge with us. Preferably you'd know about th...

Transition Town – Maitland. Citrus Drive. Transition Town Maitland, through the Hunter Transition Initiative, is embarking on a drive to collect unwanted citrus in the Maitland area and put it to good use for the community and we want you to be a part of the drive. There will be more on...

Our Summer Pig Project With meat that has been raised in a humane way in very short supply, my sweetie Taiga and I decided that we would experiment with growing three pigs this summer.  We have been for some time now on a mostly vegetarian diet after deciding that we would try to eat only meat...