We have produced a design for the property and are now in the implementation phase. Expansion of both infrastructure and gardens are the first priorities. A food forest and animals will follow. Focus will be on hardy perennials and native plants.
Sentimos que para que los cambios sean reales, prácticos y contundentes deben de ser llevados a través de la Educación. Sin ella sería imposible salir adelante y sin una educación con visión a futuro para nuestros niños y jovenes, poco podrá ser realmente el cambio si no trabajamos para ello.
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PRI Saskatchewan is a non-profit organization set up to establish, develop and promote permaculture practices and principles in Saskatchewan through teaching, implementing and networking.
frogs have shown up at the little pond we've made near the house! We are proud to have built them a home and to know many mosquitos no longer feel so welcome. It's really cool to know that nature can just come to you when you build things.
I have found a very eco friendly carpentry company in Crossfield that has offered me all the saw dust I can cart away. I have a friend building the toilet boxes. I am going tomorrow to get as many of the pails as I can. All that is left is to build the structure to house the two toilets. I am thi...
Week 2 of the cob building course was (nearly) all about FOOD!! Planting food, skip diving for food, cooking creatively, making a stove and oven, eating, discussing... it really seemed to be our focus all week!
After our first skip dive at the local supermarket bin, we organised the camp kitch...
Today as i was working in the greenhouse i found a huge buterfly like the ones i used to see in América...
After some research i found that the flying creature was a monarch butterfly that everybody knows because of its amazing migration from Canada to Mexico...
There used to be found some o...
This site & course experience looks
at what sacred is to you and how it works with your vision, family and
communities. This is a non-judgmental, non-religious space for
self-reflection, community building and ongoing education. We want to be
more Nature-based, global and sharing, yes...
Open day start 10am through to 4 pm with a continuous program of talks, DIY workshops and tours, plus displays and a selection of incredible edible tropical tubers for sale. Canteen will have delicious refreshments and lunches for sale.
This annual event is completely organised by the full time ...
Within the Gravity Chicken Run,
we needed a place for our chickens that was warm in winter and cool in
summer. We also wanted it to be super easy to clean, cheap to build, and
easy to keep our chickens healthy long term. So we came up with a
design called the RawBale Chicken House.
M...
This Land launches Summer 2011 permaculture classes
www.this-land.org
This Land's vision is to serve as a parent
organization for a network of urban farms, urban gardens, Permaculture
demonstration sites, educational workshop providers, local
entrepreneurial enterprises, and other organiz...
Fruit tree care and pruning workshop
25 June 2011, 2pm till 4pm
Cost: $25
One, two and three year old trees all needing their yearly haircut. Come and learn with us in a hands-on, practical way how to do this vital job.
Jessie Buckley, qualified horticulturist, will lead this workshop.
Place...
Energy and matter are one ! Thus we may manipulate energy with matter, as in the example of a passive solar building, or matter with energy, like warming a room with an electric heater.
Have now been back at Landmatters for 1 month - following the completion of the amazing EDE course in Damanhur, Italy
The month has been busy - my starting in a new community - learning new systems, feedbacks, patterns relationships, landing in the new gardens, trying to Permaculture OBSERVE my...
This beautiful chacra minutes from the coast of the Rio del Plata will be converted into a testbed for permaculture design Uruguay. To our knowledge this will be first attempt to apply the permaculture design protocols to a property in Uruguay.