The machete is an essential tool here in the Amazon as it is a non-polluting way to shape timber for sustainable construction and clear brush for plantings. Quite often you will see both men and women walking down the street with the blades because our community works and lives in the rainforest....

Documentation of urban backyard food production from the average suburbia backyards using permaculture principles.

Earn your Permaculture Design Certificate  at a Farm dedicated to Permaculture. More information here  

Practical Permaculture Research Institute is located on the Sunshine Works Organic Farm, a demonstration Permaculture Farm with a Permaculture school.

Finca Vista Bella is an organization focused on practices of sustainable and permaculture practices. The farm is located on Utuado and haves 20 acres, where 7 acres was previously used for the commercial café farming and are been adapted to the permaculture practices. The small amount of café pro...

It was a great experience. With Rico Zook, Jeremiah Kidd as teachers, I am really blessed. It was wonderful to meet so many new friends and to learn a lot about them and the experiences of so many different countries. Though I had been reading a lot on the net, through books and through videos o...

Example of a few basic concept designs etc I've done. In many cases there's no need to get into elaborate designs. 

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This course will enable you to work on a permaculture design for your own site (or one with which you are familiar) under the tutelage of design professionals. The course will begin with the review of design tools and processes, as well as drawing and presentation techniques. Two tutors will be ...

http://centrodeconvergencia.wordpress.com/wceco/ The construction of these "loveable loo" style compost toilets and maintenance at the Summer Festival was organised by members of the project.        

Venha visitar a nossa Aldeia e relaxar no largo da Amoreira. Aproveite a ocasião para partilhar um momento de activismo local e (esperemos) inter-regional. Este ano a Feira da semente terá o prazer de acolher visitantes de duas comunidades estrangeiras: The Hollies e Lakabe. Teremos tam...

 

Greetings, I havent posted any updates for some time so I thought I should include what the latest but modest steps we have progressed on. As noted in the summery, I built a compost (had to make sure it was fully enclosed due to lack of fence, numerous stray dogs, donkeys, horses and cows. It i...

Chickens! Wow, what an interesting experience. I first introduced three chickens, and since then I've added several more, and am now have 27 chickens in the back yard. Seven are just a almost a month old, the rest are grown. Hatching chicks with a broody hen is so much easier than dealing with ha...

Download the PDC flyer: www.permaculture2012.co.za/site/files/7042/PDC_2013a.jpg Download the PDC programme: www.permaculture2012.co.za/site/files/7042/PDC_Ezio_Gori_v1c.pdf  

Download the PDC flyer: www.permaculture2012.co.za/site/files/7042/PDC_2013a.jpg Download the PDC programme: www.permaculture2012.co.za/site/files/7042/PDC_Ezio_Gori_v1c.pdf  

Living a sustainable life in Argentina....