Logo primary
Logo secondary
Greening desert

Updates from our Users...

Living Permaculture

Living Permaculture
Living Permaculture is the Permaculture of our life. We live at Tui Community a 28 year old 50 ha rural intentional community. We are cultivating permaculture in our lives and around us. We aim to assist cultural paradigm shift while having fun and inspiring others. We have a range of proj...
Read more...



Denault

Denault
It started with the restoration of a holiday house in the beautiful Morvan in France. It took not long and I moved from the Netherlands to this beautiful landscape and found a self-supporting lifestyle in and with nature.
Read more...



Seed may 2012 - Semeadura em maio de 2012

Marcelo Venturi
Pictures on / Fotos em http://tinyurl.com/1aulaagroecologia2012-1 A fazenda se caracteriza por um solo arenoso, com muita matéria orgânica devido ao alto nível do lençol freático (tecnicamente neossolo quartzarênico hidromórfico típico). Em maio de 2010 começamos a ocupar a área implantando uma...

20120504%20fazenda%20aula%20agroecologia%20experimento%20014

Read more...



Urgent advice needed on creating a mini desert food forest

Gaina Dunsire
  Dear Permaculture community, I potentially have an opportunity to develop a permaculture oasis/desert food forest/school garden in Dubai,UAE. The Head Teacher is very supportive but naturally wants initial sketches/costings etc. I would really appreciate some advice and information from anyon...
Read more...



Trees in Hugelkultur Holes

Yone Ward
I am experimenting with Hugelcultur. I'm not certain that standard hugelkultur will work on my field of sand. I think I am going to have to come up with a varient that works in sand. This is just a small project at this point. I shot videos of my activities. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3AoDF...
Read more...



Teaching Permaculture for the Community and Future

Stephanie Ladwig-Cooper
I've been working with a really wonderful woman, Monica, who is currently the Workshop Coordinator for a local non-profit organization, Cultivating Community in Chico. She and I both feel that permaculture is urgently needed in our area and that farmers and urban gardeners alike will benefit grea...

6 23 12%20workshop%20w%20cc%20vs2

Read more...



Just some impressions...

Ute Bohnsack
The avatar "fruit map" enlarged: Red dots are apples (27 varieties), yellow = pears (8 varieties + 2 seedlings), khaki = Asian pears (2 var.), purple = plums (9 varieties), blue small dots are damsons, bright green small dots are crabapples and seedling Malus sieversii, dark red is a cherry (n...
Read more...



Transition Ottawa

Transition Ottawa
Transition Ottawa is helping to face the challenges of Peak Oil /Climate Change by encouraging practical solutions on a local scale.
Read more...



Ron and Corrie's Little Shack in the Woods

Ron and Corrie's Little Shack in the Woods
My partner and I purchased an all season off-grid cabin on four acres of land. We have been using it as a recreational retreat, a place to grow food, and mostly a place to experiment and apply permaculture practices. It has been an incredible learning experience that brings us infinite joy.
Read more...



Creatures of habit

Zaia Kendall
Our cows in the paddock Most of you would agree when I say that humans are creatures of habit. Some more than others, but in general, if you are fed dinner at 6.30pm every night, and one night there is nothing on the table, you would be really hungry and not very happy. Animals are muc...
Read more...



Mint under the apple tree

Sherry Coffey
Read more...



North Shore Permaculture Design Certificate 2 week summer intensive

Meleana Judd
http://www.transitionoahu.org/730—812-2-week-permaculture-design-certificate-course.html
Read more...



Hugelkultur Bed Experiment

Adrien Lapointe
This spring after hearing so much about the advantages of hugelkultur beds, I decided to convert one of my garden beds. I got a hold on some old logs and on some freshly cut branches, dug a hole in my rocky/sandy suburban garden and put a layer of fresh compost on top and some wood shavings fro...
Read more...



Florida Gulf Coast University Food Forest

Florida Gulf Coast University Food Forest
The Food Forest is FGCU's student-run botanical garden of tropical/subtropical edible species that grow well in South Florida. It also includes non-edible native species, which harbor a full array of native fauna and help to maintain the system. The species diversity is exceptional, and a t...
Read more...



The Biochar Experiment

Daniel Broockmann
I have been trying to figure out what to do with the growing pile of fruit tree limbs from my orchard.  This spring a friend started talking about the values of biochar for use in soils.  Viola!  The answer for what to do with all those extra limbs! The idea behind biochar as I understand it is ...

1 2 3 4 5

Read more...



Second Watson wick derived biofilter installed

John Schinnerer
I'll have some more pictures in a future update. The first one below shows the wick bed being leveled, with one of the infiltrators leaned out of the way to the right. The second shows the wick cinder fill nearing the top of the infiltrators, with the inspection pipes already in place. This biof...

Img 2412 1000h Img 2416 1000w

Read more...