Speechless! The soil I am working on,from the jar test result,it is a silty loam on a base of different kinds of very compact clay. The parent rock is...

På 1700-tallets Jæren bodde folk i to hustyper, en av tre og en av torv og stein halvt nedgravd i bakken. Foruten å være rimeligst var torvhusene langt lunere. Likevel ble torvhusbeboerne satt under permanent belæring fra trehusbeboerne om hvor ”ufint” de bodde. Gammen er tilsvarende en svært kli...

Project of perma garden

The week long teacher training with Rosemary Morrow was inspiring. It was a very full week; heaps of information packed into a very short time period. The course was very practical. In addition to all the many insights into the roles and responsibilites of a teacher/facillatator it gave each stud...

About to start the Appalachan trail tomorrow with my handy wild edibles of the North Eastern USA guide.I've been learning a lot about the amazing variety of wild edible plants and their suprising density in regards to food value. To name acouple off hand: stinnging nettles and chick weed. This re...

We made some money just in time to put a big tree order in. A list follows. We will probably order more. Hopefully, this list will give aspiring forest gardeners some idea of what is available. We ordered from Burnt Ridge, Grimo, One Green World, and Raintree. The order goes a long way, as far a...

roof of the house-- sown by the birds wildflowers - issa Here is a template to inspire to creation of more permaculture learning guilds that support advanced permaculture people to do their two year Permaculture Diploma. If you are already teaching permaculture why not create a course like ...

Food Forest Workshop at Wild Thyme Farm Weekend of April 29-May 1 Cost: $160 early bird price, see below for pricing structure Register soon! Space limited to about 20 participants. Spend a weekend at a dynamic permaculture site learning the tricks of the trade! Food production and eco...

A small rural farm/garden located in the Sierra Nevada foothills. This includes a forest garden, raised beds, chickens, terracing and more. We have more projects than you can throw a handful of rocks at so updates should be plenty.

”Happy Planet Index” (HPI) ble lansert i 2006, delvis som et alternativ til FNs noe mangelfulle HDI-indeks, men først og fremst som en reaksjon på et ensidig fokus på BNP og økonomisk vekst. Her kommer Norge godt ned på lista, i kontrast til førsteplassen på FNs liste. HPI-indeksen rangerer nasjo...

What would it take to green the desert? To bring our soil back to life, to transform barren earth into healthy, bountiful gardens? To feed all the world's people? Come discuss these and other global issues and share your wisdom...... Join us for the 10th International Permaculture Conference an...

A collaboration between the Cincinnati Permaculture Guild, Om Valley Permaculture and TreeYoPermaculture, as well as a number of facilitators, this weekend PDC is designed to train students on urban, suburban and rural design. The seven weekend schedule easily fits the schedules of working people...

Community knowledge sharing and teamwork in a local Organic-Permaculture garden

Orginal artikkel hos Permaliv her. Denne er oppdatert med ny informasjon og har fine illustrasjoner. Istedenfor å angripe årsakene til at vi trenger økt luftutskifting, velger myndighetene å feie disse under teppet og heller satse på økte krav til ventilasjon, noe som i praksis betyr påtvungne a...

Our exciting journey to Africa begins in less than one week! On March 4th Warren Brush, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Quail Springs Permaculture, and I will embark on our journey to Kenya and Uganda.  We arrive in Nairobi Kenya on the 6th and get straight to work designing and incorporati...

The collective garden, a project by a not for profit organization, began in 2006 as an innovative response to problems of food insecurity in the region. Every year, we welcome more than a hundred participants from a dozen community organizations and institutions of Saint-Jerome. At the garden, th...

Here is the story of the ongoing permaculture transformation of our urban home, in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Our goal – grow as much food as possible on this urban site, significantly reduce city water-use and retrofit the home to reduce fossil heating energy by 90%.