My grandmother often says as many of the old-timers do, “The ocean is our ice-box.”  We knew of the ocean’s abundance, so we harvested only what was needed for our family and shared with neighbors and elders.  Before I was born, my Tutu (great-grandmother) Keli`i Ha`aheo was interviewed f...

In gallery you can see 3 sketches and then 4 drawings,first has scale 2cm=1m nad rest has 1cm=1m Size of trees is as estimate according to book Ekozahrady(Mr.Svoboda) and actually current status of old trees   ANY COMMENTS ARE WELCOME !!!

Course Outline Weekends beginning April 30 thru June 25 No class memorial day weekend, May 28-29 Class is from 9am to 5pm each day. Evening activities are optional. Topics covered: Mollison's Curricullum Ethics, Principles & Practices* Pattern Language & Design Methodologies* So...

  Part of our Food Forest. Tom has been planting out our Food Forest over the past few years. We use a Chook Tractor to prepare the soil, they get rid of the weeds and grass seeds for us, and dig the soil up and fertilize (and they still lay eggs too!!). When the soil is prepared enough we mo...

Glacial Lakes Permaculture is a rural permaculture demonstration and educational site in eastern South Dakota, USA.

  Current water impounding feature is a dam. Geoff Lawton's video has shown me how to expand it by adding a more complete network of swales, dams and ponds. Our Vetiver grass nursery will supply edging and buckwheat, perennial peanut for some cover. Morringa and neem as well as anti malaria pere...

PDC 18 to 29 April Internship 2 to 14 May Natural Building Course 30 May to 4 June Building Internship 6 to 11 June Introduction to Permaculture 5 to 10 Sept PDC 27 Sept to 8 Oct Internship 10 to 22 Oct Natural Building Course 30 Oct to 5 Nov Building Internship 7 to 12 Nov

More details at http://permaculturaportugal.ning.com/events/formacao-sobre-solos

2011 Programs 2nd Annual Community Training in Ecological Design in Schuyler County, NY. Weekend Workshops: February 12 & 13, 2011Tuesday evenings: February 15 through April 12, 2011 ——————————————————————- 6th Annual Mushroom Workshop Weekendin the Finger Lakes Region:May 21 & ...

The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute presents our Permaculture Design Certification course July 22 through August 7, 2011 This is our ninth, internationally recognized certification course. We train people of all backgrounds to mimic natural patterns and principles in their yards...

Starts today another Bioconstruindo the famous natural building coloquium in Brazil. Ecocentro IPEC has started the firs Bioconstruindo in Uly 2000 and since than thousands of people from all over the world have learned dozens of vernacular architectural styles and natural building techniques.  

A Community based solution to turn waste into resources   The Communauté de Communes du Pays de Dieulefit (CCPD) is a group of city councils (16 towns) based in rural south of France. I have been working here since May 2009 as the engineer in charge of sustainable development and wast...

Kalen, platform for self realization and sustainable ways of Lifeinvites you to join a Permaculture workshop for Field observation. Date:      Saturday 5 March 2011 Time:      from 12h to 14h Location: on our land at Govrlevo, Macedonia.Permaculture is an ecological design process. Design is...

Please read my story on my  "Balcony Garden Dreaming blog, and let me know how I can bring any Useful CeciSkills to your Sydney projects Sydney needs all the Permaculture People it can get!

As I promised to keep you updated, here the announcement of our first workshop. Why not giving everybody the possibility to join us from the beginning to gain some experience as well in developing a field from scratch. It is not meant to be a teacher/student kind of workshop, way more a ...

When preparing my "Mathematics for Complex Systems" lecture (pretty much all I do during semester 2 of the academic year is teaching), I came across something curious - striking evidene that quite famous people in the academic profession of economics are not actually using mathematics to adequate...

Permaculture Education & Demonstration Center

  Our house has a very small footprint because it is only about 14 X 6m and is a double storey structure. Our front property line finishes about where the car-port finishes and most of the space between that and the road is dry, dusty lawn. To the left of this photo frame it is shaded by Frang...