Where can you learn to make bread, juggle, use online
networks, knit, play music, cook in a cob oven, conserve endangered plants, use
a spinning wheel, keep bees, convert a diesel vehicle to run on vegetable oil,
communicate compassionately, ferment food, raise a nappy-free baby, and lots
mor...
At Milkwood Farm we love both our rocket stove water heater and our mini rocket stove, but with winter taking hold I’m dreaming of new ideas, so I thought I’d review what else is out there.
DIY rocket stove technology is exploding world-wide at the moment – here’s a couple of the treasures I...
Nesta época do ano, inverno aqui em Santa Catarina, é hora de cuidar das frutíferas, roçando a área, colocando palhada e adubando as frutíferas. Ver as mudas crescerem, e amadurecerem para na primavera dar seus primeiros frutos é lindo.
Nossa zona 2 é composta de leguminosas nativas, como bra...
Permaculture in the Maldives to feature in French Documentary
In the beginning of May I was fortunate to have the opportunity to further promote Permaculture Design in the Maldives. French TV ESCALES are making a 52 minute documentary on sustainability on Six Senses Properties.
The mai...
Permaculture in the Maldives to feature in French Documentary
In the beginning of May I was fortunate to have the opportunity to further promote Permaculture Design in the Maldives. French TV ESCALES are making a 52 minute documentary on sustainability on Six Senses Properties.
The main fo...
ANybody got any good tips/resource sites for techniques dealing with invasive grasses?
Where i live in Margaret River, Sth Wst Aus, it old dairy country... and there is Kikuyu EVERYWHERE. THose who have worked around Kikuyu before know that its like the Terminator, very hard to isolate and hold ...
Forest Lodge Farm Stay is a 168 acre property and when myself and my family moved in, it had little or no active permculture elements. Our project is to transform the farm into self sufficient permaculture paradise, for the two families that now live here and the animals that share the land with us!
It’s sometimes a bit hard to explain to people just what a Permaculture Design Course
entails – the scope is both broad and intricate – but in it’s essence
it’s ecological systems theory, applied to an everyday context.
Over this winter Nick is heading a PDC in Sydney, in a one day per
w...
We have a flock of Aracauna chickens that we have raised from pullets, 2 llamas and small garden projects. As a part of our property exists an 80-year old adobe house that sits adjacent to the Taos Pueblo lands.
Just one more example of how we are combining community education, resource recovery and thrift:
http://ecothriftydoup.blogspot.com/2011/06/compost-post.html
Thanks to Geoff for the words to live by.
p.s. Goat composting video coming soon.
Here is a gallery of pictures from the Pond to Terrace flood irrigation system we recently installed on a slope in northern california. The Pond system feeds 5 terraces full of perennial edibles, nitrogen fixers, insect and bird attracting planting and much more. Keep in mind the entire system is...
We are designing and installing an educational permaculture garden at our local food cooperative, The Trading Post. The area outside of the store is being transformed into a food forest using permie principles and local resources. Ultimately, the area will contain signs and interactive areas wh...
