A city girl learns how to grow her own food sustainably with no prior experience.
Be prepared for occasional funny failures and hopefully a steep learning curve!
In the end of April a few of us participated a Holistic Management and grazing planning weekend course in Ronda, Spain taught by Kirk Gadzia from USA. Almost immediately after returning home we started taking the first steps of putting the new inspiring information into practice. Following the pr...
May 2007. Looking northwards. Polytunnel with shelterbelt to break the strong south-westerly winds. The flowering trees are crabapples ('John Downie'), the other two very small fruit trees are an apple and a plum.
Mid June 2012. The polytunnel looks very shaded but that's because the photo was t...
Join us for an intensive training seminar at our newly created “Horo eco-project”.Together we will develop skills, knowledge and ideas that can make a real difference in these troubled times.Based on the world wide Gaia Education program EDE, “Ecovillage Design Education”, which is supported by t...
THE FIRST JOEL SALATIN RAP @ TARANAKI SOLD OUT IN 10 DAYS! WE'VE JUGGLED THE SCHEDULE TO GET ANOTHER ONE IN BY POPULAR DEMAND...
Regenerative Agriculture Practicum (RAP) - Polyface Farming Systems
'30 hours over 3 days with Joel Salatin in the Field on Taranaki Farm'
24-26 October 2012, Tara...
Little Forest Farm is a 21ha rural small holding on the West coast near Malmesbury. Our vision is living and demonstrating an alternative sustainable rural human settlement model.
Did not anticipate such a great outcome of the cucumbers. Next year we will lower the number of the plants and grow other vegetables. The eggs are steady production and the family has more than they can eat. will begin selling eggs which will help offset the cost of feed which is bought. Local fe...
[Front yard February 1, 2011 - driveway just to the left of photo]
Creatively use and respond to change is the 12th design principle of permaculture.
This principle is very important for us to consider because it deals specifically with the only truly constant thing in nature; that is change....
First ecocomune and ecovillage in capital of Latvia. Lucavsala is a green island between banks of river Daugava just 5 minutes form center of Riga. We are building comunity house now, and we have started gardening with permaculture.
I hear you comrade. ‘I want those acres and to start my food forest and have a permaculture demonstration Eden – but alas, I am a humble renter with big bloody dreams and typically uncreative landlords’.
As us ‘renters’ forlornly scan open fields and acres — seeing real estate listings of erod...
I am constantly befriended by those who are into Permaculture, new or long interested, overwhelmed or intimated; waves of euphoric purpose not knowing where to channel. More and more concepts, ideas whirling into dizzying rejections — and our old comrade, fear.
I continually come across people p...
After having discovered that there are large quantities of shattered asbestos tiles over the property I have decided to suspend my activities on the project. The main wind direction and storms blow straight over the polluted area into the direction of the main house and apartments. Knowing this I...
neighbourhood project on a previously disused plot in The Hague city centre. Forest Garden Nursery, Pond, Raised beds, Flower beds for year of the bee which was sown with local children.
Marionberries on trellis
Eating berries is one of my favorite summer activities.
Saving them for later use is also a favorite past time. There are many ways of
preserving berries -making jams and jellies, canning or freezing them whole or
even dehydrating them for a hiking snack with nuts and...
