Spring will soon be here so I'm putting a lot of time on planning my year at the garden. Last year, I tried some home made low tunnels and they worked great! I extended the harvest season for my eggplants and did a late sowing of mixed lettuce. You can see the result in the first 2 pictures....

  We live and garden on an urban lot in Calgary, Canada, located on the 51st parallel north and approximately 80 km east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. This northern climate presents many design challenges, including less than one hundred frost-free days, an annual mean temperatu...

Every Sunday I've been getting together with some friends to work on various permaculture projects. It's something that's become a trend for several years now. There have been several ebbs and flows over the course of that time but the general trend has been ever climbing. These days, Sunday work...

Molokai Permaculture Education Initiative A partnership between the Permaculture Research Institute USA & Sust`ainable Molokai   4-Course Permaculture Series – Fall 2010 In the Fall of 2010, the Permaculture Research Institute USA (PRI USA) sponsored 20 members of the local communit...

Oficina comunitária de Linda-a-Velha. --- Linda-a-Velha's Community Workshop

We are a permaculture project near Verden and care for a 7 ha garden which is aimed to grow as a forest garden. The oldest plantings are by now 10years (There are 200 different kinds). The focus of the project is on research on low-tec self-sufficiency and utopical gardening. We are a self organ...

A couple of years ago, I was offerred some bamboo by a friend, for whom I was doing some scything. At about the same time, I watched Martin Crawford's Forest Garden DVD, in which he showed how to harvest and prepare bamboo shoots. Luckily, most of what I collected were really useful species, and...

My organization Sust`aina ble Molokai partnered with the Permaculture Research Institute USA to develop a Molokai Permaculture Education Initiative. This initiative is designed to create a network of local permaculture teachers that serve the community, mentor youth, and manage large earth repa...

Digital Storytelling by Nuu-chah-nulth Youth and Elders - VICCIFN Digital Harvest Stories: Spring 2010. Co-Sponsored by CommunityAlchemy.com with openmythsource.comhttp://www.planetshifter.com/node/1820

Willi Paul discusses permaculture, alchemy & the new mythologies on the Agroinnovations Podcast, Episode #121: State Banks, Opensource Mythology, and Viralized Transgenics (2/11)

Collective Farming Initiative. The project and quest started in 2009 with the ideas and dreams of manifesting: A self-sustaining community farm that provides energy and food security into the future. It’s own pure water source year round. Neither commercially farmed nor surrounded by com...

Urban Permaculture home garden design I live in Hinckley, Leicestershire in the UK and am pretty much as far from the coast as you can be in England.  My garden is long and thin being 51metres long and just six wide. The orientation is east west along the length and lies on a very gentle...

Although there was quite a bit of snow on the south side of Vodno, The mountain separating our place from Skopje, on our land there was nearly none. Our piece of land lays about 1 km from the village Govrlevo. It is well accessible by the paved road leading to that village. From the corn...

to explain the way we'll gonna work, behave and communicate with eachother. The dates are March 5 and 12 and will be in the Blokhuispoort in Leeuwarden, from 12 - 15 hours. If you want to be there too please leave a note. We'll then send you an invitation too. Grtz,Irma Abelskamp & Mirand...

PERMANENCE of the human race relies on conciously designing our lives to meet all our needs without compromising other beings and the planet. The inherent (IM)PERMANENCE of life and indeed the human species invites us to humbly remember our place in creation... Travelling overland around the glo...

After volunteering with a corrupt NGO We have gone rogue and are fighting for our survival in Africa.

Hi all! Here are some pictures from my garden just to start the ball rolling. The first one is of our Jean Pain experiment which gave us hot water all summer and autumn long. Check out the project page for more details on this experiment.