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2016 Graduates of Teacher Training

Bill Wilson
This is the 6th Teacher Training taught by Becky and Bill Wilson of Midwest Permaculture.  The training was held at Heal the Planet Farm. We'll have some information up on that project soon. We love doing this work for we get to meet and work with some of the greatest people.
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Permaciudad

Permaciudad
We are a group of people interested in creating a sustainable project inside Xochimilco's Natural Reserve, aplying prehispanic chinampa technology and modern design.
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Roma and Cherry Tomatoes

Mario Germino
I started these from seeds a little over two months ago immediately after moving to Riyadh. The pot is made out of repurposed styro box lined with plastic sheet, with an inch or so of perlite that serves as water reservoire.

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Rooftop Permaculture Garden

Rooftop Permaculture Garden
I am hoping to build a sustainable rooftop garden in my residence in Riyadh where the principles of permaculture will be implemented. Raised Beds, Wicking Boxes, Self Watering Containers, Vertical, Aquaponics are some of the methods I will be growing both ornamental and edible plants. Chicken, ra...
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Landcare in Focus - Permaculture, where east meets west

david spicer
Permaculture Works, Edge 5 Permaculture and Stokks Consulting recently published this great article in the Landcare in Focus magazine. The article details how Permaculture is assisting in drought proofing Australia; and what methodologies are used on the east coast of Australia verses the west co...

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PDC Permaculture Design Course in Paradise Island - August 2016 - Spain

Helder Valente
New School Permaculture PDC Permaculture Design Course 1-12 August 2016 With  Helder Valente  at Atlantis Food Forest  Tenerife Island - Spain  (Castellano abajo) What is Permaculture? Permaculture is a sustainable design system that provides for huma...
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Infinity Farms

Infinity Farms
Infinity Farms is my journey to a functioning permacultural farm the includes a food forest, linear orchard, honey production, forest farming, and market garden sales.
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To Mulch or Not to Mulch

Waheed Khan
Here is a small film showing the difference between mulching and not mulching. I haven't done any thing on this bed in terms of weeding or cleaning and it is ready to be planted on. But my neighbours have to clean their beds before they start the season. So I save my self a lot of work just by mu...
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Making Deep Mulched Bed in East London Part 2

Waheed Khan
This is the part 2 to making the deep mulched bed, which should be ready to plant straight away. 
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Making Deep Mulched Bed in East London Part 1

Waheed Khan
I have been offered to set up a garden bed in a community garden in East London. This is the first part setting it up an there will be more videos following it. 
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Mulched Kitchen Garden

Waheed Khan
This is a brief update to the kitchen garden I set up October 2015, when I went to Pakistan for a few weeks. It has been doing okay in my absence. It is a demonstration to my family to make a move to Organic Farming. I attach a small clip  
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Rustom Farm

Rustom Farm
The project is a long way to a functioning permaculture farm with a market garden, timber forest and rotational legume - millet farm.
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Three little birds

Chris McLeod
The Australian accent and language (which is apparently sometimes described as either broad or a drawl) is a useful tool for communicating complex ideas and sentences in as few words as possible. Often you can string various words together in a spoken sentence so that the meaning becomes far grea...
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Initial site visit

Austin Tseng
So it was on a dark and rainy Melbourne evening that our intrepid team made their way to the client's property. "J" and "L" are a lovely couple with two young children, and a one-storey but spacious home with a decent backyard. Over much-welcome mugs of tea we had a chat and a walk-around, gather...
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Essendon residential project

Essendon residential project
PC design and implementation for a residential property in Melbourne's northern suburbs. Particular emphasis to be placed on vegetable production and water collection for irrigation.
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First Swale working by shovel and pickax

James Everett
So I recently bought me a laser level and marked me out a swale in the front yard area of my house.  I dug out the lentgh with shovel then started to working on digging out the swale and took me nearly two hours just to get a little over 2 foot of the sale and about 1.5 foot deep.  So this is goi...
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