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Introduction to PCD course: Easter 2011

PG (Petrus Groenewald) Ewald Viljoen
5 day introduction & permaculture work party. Eco village design dialogue. Easter: 20 april  - 2 may 2011 - Umphakatsi  - near steynsdorp - Mpumalanga - 30km from oshoek - swaziland border. mail for info and directions. [email protected]

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Mandala Market Garden

Mark Brown
You may have heard this story if you read my personal page but as it is relevant, and belongs here at the farm, I will repeat it here.   I was teaching a PDC at the community garden in Dungog (home of Doug Walters) and on the introduction I was showing and talking about publications participa...

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Courses in Permaculture (Landscape) Design:

Nick Huggins
The Aim of the Program: We are committed to training creative, confident and professionally superior PERMACULTURE  Designers. On completion of your studies you will be entitled to design with in the permaculture field. Fully competent to undertake the following tasks: Creating sustainable P...

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Permaculture Business World

Nick Huggins
www.permaculturebusinessworld.com - coming soon. Permaculture Business World is in the process of being developed - a new business for Nick and a new direction for Permaculture. Growing People, Permaculture & Business  will be at the core of www.permaculturebusinessworld.com   MISSION:  ...
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Hit the road!

Emre Rona
As a human being fascinated with how nature looks, smells, tastes, feels and works, I've always been trying to be close to my roots. But,I met the term permaculture in August 2010, during a two week course with Emet De?irmenci & Augustin Sepulveda along with other permaculture and nature enth...
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Mushrooms in the South of Portugal

Pedro Franco
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BUILDING A CHILDRENS’ PERMACULTURE GARDEN

A community project by Moonriver Lodge to PIONEER & BUILD the first Childrens’ Permaculture Garden in Malaysia, a space for explorative learning, play, discovery, living, growth and regrowth and fellowship. Using PERMACULTURE DESIGN, this garden is a pilot prototype and a demonstration and...
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Happy Earth

Happy Earth
At Happy Earth, we’re on an adventure in urban sustainability, exploring how we can retrofit a typical house and lawn into a healthy, efficient home with an abundant food garden. Happy Earth is also about sharing stories and providing practical, independent information about sustainable living...
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Top Bar Bee Hive Migration

Tim Auld
I made a top bar bee hive last year when I heard that Richard was able to split his Langstroth hive, which was a bit overpopulated at the time. We adapted some Lang frames so that we could populate them with brood and honey in Richard's hive, then transfer them to the top bar. We managed to compl...

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Workshops for Warren

Vanessa Monge Augusto Fernandes
The article that Warren wrote.http://permaculture.org.au/2010/12/21/spreading-permaculture-and-touching-lives-in-east-africa/ http://permaculture.org.au/author/Warren%20Brush requested 9000 dollars to continue the fine work he was doing in Africa.In the spirit of acting locally and thinking glo...

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Permaculture Gold Coast

Permaculture Gold Coast
Permaculture Gold Coast is a growing grass roots,non profit organisation.Our primary focus is action orientated education,and the facilitation of a more resilient and informed community."Volunteerisim" and philanthropy are at the base of our efforts.
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Permaculture at the Botanic Gardens

Permaculture at the Botanic Gardens
The local Council agreed that a Permaculture Garden would be great as an educational tool within the Wollongong Botanic Gardens. I was asked to draw up some plans but given some really interesting boundaries! It had to look like an Edna Walling Garden for one.
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Saint Thomas House

We purchased this home, built in 1890, in the fall of 2010 with cash--meaning no mortgage. God bless post-industrial cities and their low housing costs! Our project entails retrofitting the home (1000 square feet), converting the cinderblock gargage into an efficiency apartment/heated greenhous...
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Introducing Fingerlings into Aquaponics

Frank Gapinski
Getting fish for your new aquaponics system is fairly easy to do online in Australia. I'm sure the process is similar in your country too. You need to track down a hatchery in your state or country. Some US states have very strict rules about what sort of fish you can grow at home. Til...
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Plant hole, swale and little pond.

Sven Horner
2 days ago I had dug this one of eight holes for Elaeagnus multiflora. Soon after I had finished it filled up with melted water (you can see that some of the water stayed until the next frost the night before) slowly flowing down the slope in the first 10 cm of the soil - I decided to dig a sma...
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Monte do Carrascal

Monte do Carrascal
Private 5 ha area in Costa Atlantica, Alentejo.
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Asaba Art Square

Asaba Art Square
40 years ago, in response to the suicide of a child, Mrs. Asaba created a private art school, where children would blossom. In 2009 she came across permaculture and said 'Thats what Im doing!'. Asaba art square now has a cafe, edible gardens, Gallery, Annual Art festival, and hosts intern...
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Eco

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