Our main focus is growing Camellia sinensis as a crop on 20 acres located at Biggenden, in Queensland, Australia. Camellia sinensis is grown as a crop around the world for the production of tea.
Pic 1 - Beginnings of an "oasis" in the prairie:
Pic 2 - Apricot trees form the majority of a small orchard:
Pic 3 - Winter Wonderland, a result of freezing fog in the depths of winter:
Gaia University Northeast empowers you to change the world.
We support eco-social entrepreneurs, farmers, and actionists to carry out real-world projects with significant local and global impact - while receiving accredited Bachelors and Masters degrees.
The goal of permaculture is to reunite man with nature and man with man through design systems, and here patterns play an important role. Still, patterns can only reunite humans with natural systems and with each other, not with the geometry of the universe. Surely in what I like to call permatec...
Columbia Basin Permaculture is exploring Permaculture designs and techniques uniquely applicable to cold winter/hot summer dryland environments (Koppen-Geiger BSK).
Terra Perma is a group of ecological garden designers dedicated to demonstrating the transformation of urban green spaces into beautiful, productive environments that serve and give back to people, our community and the Earth.
We believe in the ethical use of planetary resources, and we envisi...
The Center for Holistic Ecology (CHE) developed to integrate all life systems: self, social and ecological. Our activities and programs counter global climate change and the energy crisis by supporting the vibrancy and health of our regional economy, communities, and environment. To accomplish th...
Unlike many permaculture projects that must project stacking into the future, we are starting with mature trees. Circular or fishscale berms act as traps for water and humus. We trim up the trees an strategically thin the branches to let in the light.
Restful Trails Food Forest Gardens is a rural permaculture project whereby forest gardens are being created on a 5 acre property by a private owner.
The owner has been creating food forest gardens on this property for nearly 40 years but lost much of the forests and gardens to a housefire in 20...
Solar Springs Permaculture is a research farm conducting work in land restoration, food production, and appropriate technologies; and a business providing consulting and educational services to the global community and farm goods and nursery stock to its neighbors. It is also the home of Solar Sp...
