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Permaculture Design Exercise Weekend

Hege Iren Wiken
Permaculture Design Exercise Weekend «Students will receive an introduction to Permaculture design before they actively practice it in our future forest garden. This way, we learn by doing. This course is very interactive and participatory. Everyone will get a chance to practice their design ski...
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Full tank and tree planting prep - what's the best tree guard material?

Amanda McLennan
Joy of joys, at our last visit our 13,500 litre water tank was over three quarters full and we have had enough rain fall in the last month to fill it up! We bought the largest water tank we could get to physically fit under the gutters of our shed and thought it would take years to fill since we ...
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First permaculture design in planning stages.

Daniel Brown
The property, also headquarters of their company, has 2 acres of zoned agriculture in the rear.  Currently, it is not utilized.  The client is seeking retirement income and security so that they can leave the landscape architecture business they've owned and operated for over 35 years.  The l...
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Forest Garden Design Workshops in Jarków

Łukasz Nowacki
Forest gardening is a low-maintenance sustainable plant-based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans. Making use of companion planting, these...

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Margaret Dement Community Garden

Tyler Pratt
The garden members of this young garden are still at it strong and their hard work is paying off.  This spring they significantly increased the size of their annual growing area (both in raised beds and directly in the ground) and their irrigation system development tries to keep pace with the ne...
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Promising Season!

Tyler Pratt
This year is surely shaping up to be a promising one!  We are pleased to have Hailee and Seth again, our two 2012 garden managers, for 2013.  We are nearing completion of our 2nd substantial greenhouse (a 20 ft by 60 ft gothic arched one), are building a permanent chicken coop, a tool shed, and m...
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La Pâture es Chênes

La Pâture es Chênes
Forest garden project in a 1 acre rural land in Brittany.
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Rodmell Food Forest

Peter Cow
http://rodmellfoodforest.wordpress.com/

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april

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site visit for a permanent installation in a sensory garden in the meantime, the project at http://bit.ly/Zuv0FB is paying off as if winter never happened, we are still harvesting curled cabbage (boerenkool) and new shoots of chives and parsley, this means spring vegetable consommé and...
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School of Permaculture Suburban Site

 School of Permaculture Suburban Site
Suburban Demonstration and Education site for learning Permaculture, Natural Living, and Healing.
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self watering tray

Daniel Kim
i could not upload the video so im putting link to video..   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHCeleDx45Q  
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International Permaculture Day 2013

Ben Hamley
Join us in The Bamboo Garden for a FREE tour around our own little piece of permaculture, for International Permaculture Day, May 5 2013. Contact us here to book a visit, or to find out more about what we do.
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Unparalleled Poohs and Views: Composting Toilet~Eco Ola

Have you ever wondered about waste disposal in the tropics or the potential of "humanure"? Why not read about the construction of Eco Ola's own composting toilet! Unparalleled views and outstanding poohs for the environment! You can learn more in Rick Pickett's blog below entitled: "Building a Du...
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Wicking Bed by Joe Kim

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Monthly Earth Art and Natural Building Course

Lola Byron
Earth Art -- one week intensive natural building and beautification course This is an exciting opportunity to gain hands on experience in natural building techniques with the added bonus of letting your creativity and imagination run wild as you create art from the earth. This one week u...

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ManKind Project - New Warrior Training

Brock Foster
ManKind Project - New Warrior TrainingApril 2013 Shawnigan Lake BC, Canada

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Sheet Mulching

Fred Tanner
We have been using cardboard and wheat straw to sheet mulch areas that once required mowing to reduce the amount of mowing. This area on the west side of the inn has a swale with cornelian cherries, comfrey, aronias, serviceberries goji and goumi berries on the berm. The trees on the upward side ...

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Spring at Cedar House Inn

Fred Tanner
Spring is here at Cedar House Inn and our permaculture site is showing signs of life after a winter slumber. Currants are blooming as well as serviceberries. Comfrey is coming up out of the permaculture swale berms and other berries and fruits are leafing out. Bees are busy pollinating. Start the...

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