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volunteers wanted!

holy henderson
Through the years MJ and Sander have gained a lot of experience at living a DIY sustainable life and like sharing this with like-minded people. Would you like to come and help them?Email: [email protected] do not have internet connection, but a nice french neighbor brings them their ema...

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Pastoral Valley Ecologic Life Farm

Pastoral Valley Ecologic Life Farm
Implementing Permaculture global prenciples and local traditional ways together in the last virgin area of coast side in FEthiye for a sustainable farm(food, energy, life sustainablity). Teaching, applying, learning and demonstrating the eco-living practices is our aim. Earning money by eco-agro ...
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Start of my Patio Project

Robin C. M. Staple
My little patio project is all set up. I have an oval tub (smaller than I had hoped for. In the end I had to buy it, because I wasn't able to find anything suitable that people were disposing of, and, not having a car, find it difficult to get to the recycling centre). The tub, into which I have ...
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Backgroun information for Bayan Ulgii SAEL Project

Matthew Lynch
  ...some background information about SAEL, as described by ADRA-Mongolia, the NGO facilitating the project: This project proposes an integrated approach to establish food security in one of the poorest and most remote urban capitals in the country, Bayan Ulgii Province. Mongolia has an...
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starting a swale

Jason Nicholls
A while back I dug a mini swale and spill way to catch the water when I flush out my rainwater pipes (at the lowest point before going into the rainwater tank). Through some observation I realised I 1) dug it too deep, 2) made the slopes on the lower side mound too steep. Not to worry, this was t...
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Permaculture Design for Horses, People & Habitat

Nick Huggins
Permaculture Design for Horses, People & Habitat Animal Forage, Commercial Farm Projects, Economics, Energy Systems, Financial Management,Gabions, Land, Livestock, Plant Systems, Swales, Waste Systems & Recycling, Working Animals— by Nick Huggins February 16, 2011   Click for larger ...
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Articles for Positive News

Nicole Vosper
I am currently developing a blog focusing on permaculture in practice for Positive News, (www.positivenews.org.uk), a quarterly international newspaper with a large outreach in the UK and sister editions in many countries. The blog would host articles relating to news and upcoming permaculture ev...
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New York Permaculture Design Open 2011

Michael Burns
Be part of a crowdsourcing effort to create an urban edible forest garden in the City of Syracuse, NY.The Best Design, selected by a panel jury, will receive a $250 cash award and will be implemented on the property of the Rahma Free Health Clinic at 3100 South Salina St in Syracuse.Submissions a...
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Introduction course held in Gothenburg

Klara Hansson
I've changed the world! Yes, sure did... or at least changed something within the seventeen students attending our introduction-course this weekend. Comments like "now I know I'm gonna have to plant 30 different species this year, not just a field of potatoes.." really warms your heart =)   W...

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No longer at Eco Centro Soneva Fushi

No longer at Eco Centro Soneva Fushi
The role as permaculturist is to support the companies objective of being Decarbonized by 2012. The Maldivian Government has set 2020 as the year for all the Republic of the Maldives to be Decarbonised. Decarbonised is the next step beyond not producing any carbon emmissions at all . All Sixsen...
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Transition Town El Manzano in the News

Grifen Hope
Article in Revista Paula 20 km from Cabrero in the BíoBío Region of Chile is the first "transition town" in Latin America and the only one in Chile. It's called Villa El Manzano and is a tiny town that seeks to achieve ecological self reliance. Behind this project there are three broth...
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Meet the 2011 team at PCA, Djanbung Gardens

Robyn Francis
The PCA team have come together finalising plans in readiness for the new semester start on Feb 21, and after a 3 hour meeting we felt inspired, invigorated and charged with anticipation for a great year ahead. At times like this i feel truly blessed to work with such an awesome group, passionate...
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Permablitz Brisbane

Permablitz Brisbane
Our focus is edible gardens, and our ultimate aim is to make the suburbs edible enough such that should food become unaffordable, we don’t even notice.
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Merkin Orchards

Arid land zig-zagging multi-storied terraced orchard. 45 fruit and nut trees, no two varieties the same, on the North slope of a primary ridge descending from the East side of Mingus Mountain in Jerome, Arizona.
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At the top of the roller coaster...

Carrie Jones
I am headed into my second season running my own small farm. This wonderful little farm is home to myself, my four (!) room mates, one old dog, five chickens, two pregnant goats, hundreds of quail and lots of plants, trees, weeds, etc. I am really seeking better ways of doing things than busting...
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Millison Family Farms

Millison Family Farms
Residential Permaculture site on 1/3 acre on a well-travelled street. High density diverse food production and integrated drainage system into tank and small ponds. Chicken rotation system, fruit and nut trees, a virtual orgy of mulch.
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