Hi all, So I thought I had a full roster of folks gardening in our community garden out back, but it sounds like a few people wonh't be needing their plots this year.  If anyone knows of somebody that would like to join in with the permaculture community garden fun, we'd love to have them.  We t...

El Instituto Ná Lu´um se ha caracterizado por ser un pionero en Latinoamerica de la siembra de la semilla de la permacultura en diferentes climas, ecosistemas y culturas. Este trabajo siempre estuvo caracterizado por la apertura de centros de referencia de educación en Permacultura. Esta vez en ...

A call from a friend that works for the solar shop in the Hunter Valley alerted me to the opportunity to save the packing crates from landfill and give them a reuse somehow. I married the opportunity with a need to have a collapsable hen house to be part of a backyard display I was doing for the...

Hoje não tive aula devido a uma fatalidade. Morreu a mãe de uma colega minha. Meus pêsames Silvia, tenha meu apoio.   Aproveitei este dia pra começar a celebrar a vida. E iniciar a horta. Lembrando o projeto de encerramento do meu curso de PDC usei a ideia do meu grupo. Então!! Esta mandala e ...

I After years (yes, literally) of trying to figure how best to create a low-cost, low footprint, 2m high retaining wall in our courtyard, we discovered the solution. Wire baskets of rocks. Yes. Previously, gabions always seemed to me the sort of thing you find next to a highway, hold...

Cuando observamos un paisaje, usualmente lo hacemos con los ojos, cuando observamos una planta lo hacemos de igual manera y así con la mayoría de los elementos que tendriamos dentro de un diseño de permacultura. La busqueda del uso de otros sentidos, nos permitirá conocer mas en profundidad el l...

So my parents and I have bought the BCS-732 2 wheel tractor with the rotary plow attachment that Rob told me about. I pick it up saturday to take out to the farm. I am excited to try it out for turning lawns and corrals into garden beds, which will be mostly about prepping them this year. I plan...

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A garden that supplies all my needs and reflects my family’s cultural heritage.

The Geocasa is a proposed residential sustainability that can be applied in the field and in the city, drawn from a thorough study, including the physical, social and economical impact of the family living there to adapt to the concepts of residence and Agenda 21 in permaculture ecosystem managem...

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A proposta começou com o desafio: "vamos construir um abrigo?". Depois das tentativas dos grupos, começamos a montar o TIPI. O primeiro passo foi fazermos uma maquete, para ver como funciona e quais os passos a seguir. No nosso caminhar, o próximo passo e começarmos a fazer na escla natura...

Como voces podem observar os trabalhos ja começaram. Solo adubado e protejido só esperando os canteiros, etc.  Hoje estou postando os desbastes que fizemos nos arvores, pois estão sofrendo de deficiencia nutricional e suas copas estão projetando sombra em quase toda a nossa area util. Tracei os...

The first day of the Eco sewage and sanitation course focused on water efficiency and composting toilets. I touched on this in my last post but the main point is that without getting to the nitty gritty of reducing your water use, efforts to recycle water are in vein. The first talk of...

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Lactarius Deliciosus Our first sighting of Pine Mushrooms (lactarius deliciosus) was made on Easter Sunday. We had a family lunch and were hiding eggs around the yard for a young cousin's easter egg hunt when we spotted one under an Oak (and nearby the Pines). Unfortunately someone had sto...

  april has been a month of encounter and reencounters, all began with the "ecoaldea" 's reunion at el manzano where we join and share with our friends from all over the country. then at easter we recived a new group of volunteers where we harvest the grape, mulched the high beds and share great...