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Wildstar Farm and Folk School

Wildstar Farm and Folk School
Wildstar Farm and Folk School, forming Spring 2011, is a permaculture market garden and education center, producing food and teaching the skills we need as members of the human species to rediscover our ecological niche. In initial stages of formation.
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Afristar

Afristar
Afristar is a Permaculture Organisation based in South Africa, focused on the design and implementation of sustainable development programmes. Our aim is to inspire communities to work towards creating sustainable settlements that harmonise human activity to create natural wealth and great abunda...
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JNF Walter Sisulu Environmental Centre

JNF Walter Sisulu Environmental Centre
The Jewish National Fund, Walter Sisulu Environmental Centre in Mamelodi, founded in Sept 2004 is an environmental discovery centre that aims to raise awareness and mobilise community based environmental champions.
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Permaculture Noosa

Permaculture Noosa
Permaculture Noosa is one of the earliest permaculture groups formed in Australia. Its first president and founder was Geoff Lawton. It meets monthly to share knowledge, produce, plants, seeds, and socialise and has over 200 members. All are welome every third Thursday of the month at the Cooroy ...
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PDC at Marda Permaculture Farm, Palestine, Occupied West Bank, April 2011

Rhamis Kent
Preparations are being made for the upcoming April 2011 PDC taking place at Marda Permaculture Farm, located in the village of Marda, Palestine, the occupied West Bank. There have been a number of great pieces written about this project on the PRI Australia website, providing great insight and...

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The International Permaculture Conference and Convergence, IPC10, September 2011

Rhamis Kent
Topic: Rhamis will be discussing how the application of permaculture water harvesting earthworks infrastructure will be used to address the ecological challenges faced in Northern Somalia.  Of particular interest will be the Sanaag Region, which includes The Cal Madow Mountain Range. Cal Madow's ...

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Crash-grazing the creekflat: an experiment

Kirsten Bradley
Floyd un-hooks the ends of the electric fence to let the sheep into the next cell Flat ground. Seemingly simple, but oh so full of implications. We didn’t really think about how cool flat ground was until we calculated that it made up exactly 10% of the total landmass of Milkwood. That...
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Kendall Permaculture Farm

Kendall Permaculture Farm
The Kendall Permaculture Farm is a permaculture demonstration site with ongoing projects demanding well thought out permaculture design. The Farm is proud to be alcohol, drug and chemical FREE. We aim for minimal waste by re-using as many resources as possible. All fertilizers, compost and mul...
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Upcoming courses - from May 2011

Tom Kendall
10 week Internship starting 15 May Self Reliance 1 - 29 May Self Reliance 2 - 5 June Water Management 1 - 12 June Water Management 2 - 19 June Sustainable Building - 26 June - 1 July Fencing - 3 July - 8 July Introduction to Permaculture - 24 + 25 July Permaculture Design Course - 31 July...
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Our Courses and Internships

Christian Shearer
Just to let everyone know there are a series of PDC's happening this coming year in SE Asia. To learn more about the courses listed below, visit: www.panyaproject.org PDC's in Asia: In Cooperation with the Panya Project Permaculture Design Course in Pai, Tha...

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The Panya Project

The Panya Project
The Panya Project is a permaculture, natural building and sustainable living education center in Northern Thailand. Panya is operating as a volunteer-run, profit-sharing education center and hopes to inspire change!
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Øyvind Holmstad
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Landshare Australia launched!

Kirsten Bradley
The Landshare model is out of the UK, and has been a small revolution in domestic to small-scale commercial land access. It's a very simple idea: those with spare land can offer it to folks who want land to grow stuff on: whether it be 2 square feet, or 20 acres. And anyone with a buring desire ...
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EarthBag Building Workshop at Milkwood Farm

Kirsten Bradley
Earthbag dome going up at the Permaforest Trust Farm in Northern NSW Under the expert guidance of Neil and Stella from Guiding Star, we’re holding an EarthBag Building Workshop at Milkwood Farm from Feb 27 – Mar 5 this year. We’ll be building a 2.5m wide dome with mezzanine level, whic...
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Milkwood

Milkwood
Milkwood is a crew of doers and makers, dedicated to skills for smart, simple, regenerative living.
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Worldwide Courses With Warren Brush in 2011

Warren Brush
During 2011 I will be teaching courses in America, Africa and Jordan.  All of my courses are open to local and international participation.  See the following article for more information about a recent course I taught in Kenya (Nyumbani Village PDC-2010).  We have found that involving students f...

Class photo Compostheap group Hawa designpresentation Children bananacirclev Kiberafarm

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Aloha Mahi'ai

Aloha Mahi'ai
Permaculture in paradise! This project is in the early stages of development of a 15 acre farm. Our specialty is aquaponics and applied bioengineering, with a heavy dose of permaculture design philosophy. Our intention is to create a vibrant community dedicated to living and teaching natural farm...
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