For this working bee we welcomed a few new people. We built a no-dig garden bed on top of an old one which was damaged during the flood. Then planted alyssum, egg plant and tomato seedlings. I used some palm fronds to provide some shade for the seedlings to protect them from the often burning sun.

I got to the blitz early afternoon, having some other commitments earlier. I helped manage the construction of the social space, using some large logs as seats and retaining walls for the Taro bog. I was too preoccupied with work to take more photos but there may be some coming from others on fac...

The Gold Coast is attempting to achieve sustainable out comes across the city under it's "Bold Futures" program.Members of Gold Coast permaculture and the community are working collaboratively to achieve this common goal. INTREST We begin on the Gold Coast by gaining interest.This interest is g...

On the border of my 35th birthday, I find myself in a near-complete Portuguese luxury resort doing very unresort-like things: collecting cow manure from the fields, shovelling this into an attempted 18-going-on-30-day compost heap and cooking wild plant gourmet food with a tribe who "joined force...

G'day,I put this list together early last year and have just posted it on my RegenAG® 'Off the Contour' blog. It may prove useful to Permaculture educators and designers to use and expand upon. All the best, Darren

Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living. Interview with author Rachel Kaplan by Willi Paul. Co-Presented by PlanetShifter.com Magazine & openmythsource.com http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1805    

Project Summary: To create a permaculture demonstration farm and educational center to teach the local community, and international students how to live a more sustainable lifestyle using Permaculture principles. Permaculture Design Certificate courses (PDCs) and workshops in related areas - s...

Hunter Transition Initiative  Transition Town - Maitland Next meeting:   Purple Pear   Thursday 24th Feb 6.30pm get there early if you want to have a peek around their fabulous garden   Movie night showing:   "Dirt!: the movie" by common groun...

Spiral Ridge Permaculture Homestead is a 6.7 acre site located in the Cumberland-Green bio-region of middle Tennessee. The site was clear cut in December 2007 causing major damage to the soil, wildlife habitat, and the watershed. We acquired the land in April 2009 with the intent to restore the ...

The Mountain Roots Community Gardens Project aims to foster food security in the Gunnison Valley by increasing knowledge of, and access to, local food production and gardening opportunities by providing education, resources, and outreach to all community members.

Small garden for observation

In german language: http://hechenbichl.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/foliengwachs-aus-schichten-und-stapeln/

Join us to take a full residential PDC-course in Turku, Finland! Dates: August 7th-18th 2011 (72h in 10 days) Location: Koroinen, Turku, Finland Teachers: Aranya (UK), Mari Korhonen (FIN) and local guests Course language is English with translation help for Finnish speaking students. This ...

December of 2010 saw the totally secret passage in the Senate of the onerous "Food Saftey Act."  This horrible piece of legislation gives "surveilance and detention" authority to the FDA and seeks to remove fundamental rights of food choice from the People.  Naturally, this law is focussed on com...

Chopped wood with water built to shape which was designed by Jain Pain in france for composting and heating of water. Good heat result in beginning, but when outside temperature fall under -15 °C process of composting decreases.

Utilizing the incomparable Whole Systems Research Farm permaculture site in Vermont's Mad River Valley, our design studio resources, and a team of leading facilitators, Whole Systems Design, Keith Morris and Lisa DePiano present the first of many permaculture design courses to be offered ...

Whole Systems Design, LLC is a design-build company known for pioneering work in the research and development of resilient and regenerative home and farm systems. Whole Systems Research Farm (WSRF) is our main land-use proving ground and houses the WSD studio. We have recently began development...

A permaculture farm, demonstration site and education site, nestled at 4200 feet in the Sierra Nevadas of California.