I am happy to finally unveil the first official stage of my alternative agriculture research in Canada: the preliminary survey. I am asking all willing alternative agriculture practitioners (permies, homesteaders, gardeners, farmers, and everyone in between) in my region (British Columbia and Alb...

Hi All! DEMO SITE PROGRESS Since our plans to relocate have been postponed, we have decided to develop our demo site instead. Its a very challenging site. Very rocky and almost no soil as such. Please see for updates in Projects. I started planting trees and I have to admit this can get addicti...

Urban Open Balcony Garden Project

What can be done on two square meters of balcony of an appartment.

The project consists of stables and adjacent land of approximately 1 ha. Also, there is a 15 ha land plot at the river bank which the owner plans to use for production of forage for the horses.

Hi guys,  This is the deal. Our plans to rellocate have been postponed for now and we decided to use this time to plant some trees at our site here in Azerbaijan. One thing lead to another and we have redone the walls around the land plot. Next - drilling for water well and water storage constr...

I spent most of the 2015 winter (June-August) on the site planting fruit trees (mainly apples and pears), black walnut (seeds) scavanged from an old tree further down the valley, and extending terraces and building new ones. I also got some garlic and shallots in. This work wasn't heped by a very...

Many people know that the editor and I grow a lot of our own food. It has been an interesting week because a number people have discussed with us how to go about growing their own produce. What has driven this increase in curiosity about growing their own food is that there has been an outbrea...

This PRI accredited PDC is hosted by Retsogile Permaculture Education and Training Trust, www.retsogile.org.za, located at Travellers Rest farm, Haenertsburg, Limpopo Province, South Africa.  FB at www.facebook.com/retsogilepermaculture. 

This is the flyer that was printed in the 1860s when the neighborhood I work with was a suburban getaway from the hustle and bustle of San Francisco during the gold rush. Updated for 2016, come visit Hayes Valley Art Works, an urban permaculture playground like nothing you have ever seen (most...

A subgroup of the European Permaculture Council, the "Vision group", has started in July 2014 to develop a strategy to create a European Permaculture Network. This network aims to bring organisations together, to work on issues and to strategically strengthen the permaculture movement. The inaug...

PacNW Urban Permaculture Micro-plot/Lawnectomy

The Art and Practice of Live Culture Fermentation Residential Program at Rancho Mastatal, Costa Rica May 10-13, 2016   Learn how to: Ferment any vegetable into pickles, kimchi, or kraut. Brew herbal, fruit, and medicinal sodas and beers. Transform milk, whole grains, and legumes with local...

Why ferment? Why sprout? And why raw foods? ~ Simply made, fresh, active and highly alkaline food. Come have some fun and taste the goodness of health! ~   Join Breanne Gibson at the Practical Permaculture Institute in Zanzibar for a full day workshop to learn how to: ...

Our mission is to introduce permaculture education throughout all the primary schools of East Africa. We aim to teach the teachers practical, hands-on permaculture skills to promote future food and water security and to ensure dynamic economic development.

“Earthworks are much like the skeletal frame of our bodies they support the system allowing us to fill the body or land with a living muscle and skin”. Earthworks are like hardware and software. When designing it’s always essential to keep in mind what will run water off (called hardware) e.g....

After 5 years of teaching students and volunteers, and another 5 years before that of hosting and teaching volunteers and wwoofers here at Maungaraeeda, we have decided to step back and regroup. As we were training people and looking after their needs constantly, we lost focus on our objective...

   A consistent goal in my gardens is lining or boxing in any growing spaces with perennial borders.  This helps reduce soil and water erosion, provides a grass and weed barrier to the growing plots, and improves levels of organic matter in the soil in and around the beds.  Not only that, but it ...