Kakwa Ecovillage Cooperative seeks to perpetuate itself by creating regenerative patterns within it's social relationships and in partnership with it's land.
Recognizing the treasure that is our farming community and the value of
highest-quality locally produced food we sought to provide a place for
people to connect, share and learn about it. Since its beginning,
fifteen years ago, the Trading Post's purpose has been to facilitate
the mutual supp...
We will be exploring design in many forms and covering most
of the material that a Permaculture Design Course would cover. There will be a
lot of field trips and chances for the students to interact with the many
people in this area who are either practicing or inspired by permaculture. Detail...
Events
Contact us for more information on any session you are interested in.
2011 Calendar of Events.
MonthDateEventComments
February
5
Farm Tour.
Booking necessary - cost $15/person.
19
Farn Tour
Booking necessary - cost $15/person.
March
5
Farm Tour
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Living in eastern Washington is an interesting contrast to my previous life on the moist west-side of the Cascade Mountains. Here, there is Big Sky due to the essentially flat nature of the Columbia Basin and I get significant wind out of the southeast. This wind is desiccating in an already se...
You may have heard this story but as it is relevant, I will repeat it here.
I was teaching a PDC at the community garden in Dungog (home of Doug Walters) and on the introduction I was showing and talking about publications participants might like to read as further education.
I showed Linda ...
I'm a young guy developing a rural permaculture homestead outside of Kettle Falls, Washington. I've lived on the twenty acre site since 2010. Focuses include extensive food forest, indigenous ethnobiology, and appropriate technology.
There is no doubt that we can shape our world. As the Chinese use to say, the "outside"landscape is a reflection of our inner landscape.
When we first stepped on this land, it was a very degraded, compacted, and full of ticks area, after 30 years of extensive cattle raising. But despite all this...
This is a simple residential concept in using the rainfall from a roof to generate enough power to help homes living off battery arrays to keep a charge on them from rainfall or wind, as a small windmill is integrated to pump water back up, or, generate on its own.
The simple system will use t...
Valentine’s Day Turns Green
Around Tampa BayFeb. 10th-17th. On the week of Valentine's organizations
across the Tampa bay area will show the film "Home" towards building a higher
level of social consciousness of our interconnected relationship with the
environment. http://www.homethemovie...
Code Green Community is a collection of individuals pursuing a common goal of growing a local resilient and sustainable community in the greater Tampa Bay area. We come together with specific tasks of collaboration on sustainable projects both individually and as a group to transition our communi...
Gralha Azul Farm was started on a degraded pasture at the Mantiqueira Mountain Range, a very steep and rainy region, to show that agriculture can restore the land. It is Alex's family home, office, and habitat.
