Living freely- Valuing the marginal and recycling energy Plukrijp Community, Belgium    Photos and article by Richard Perkins   We are now a month into our epic global family film journey documenting active and replicable solutions in all areas of Permaculture design.  Our recent trip to th...

We stopped in at Plukrijp, home to Frank Ruymen and Martine Beaujean and their family as well as the community, some permanent and long term, some transient.  It has been here that we have parted ways with Muriel and spent a couple of days catching up with our administration and enjoying the buzz...

If you could sit down with some very experienced permaculture teachers, have a cup of tea and a home made biscuit, and ask them anything you'd ever wanted to know about life, permaculture or experience of a permaculture teacher, what would that be? Well, after finishing a busy week of training a ...

We recently went to WA to see Tom’s family. Tom hasn’t lived in WA for 10 years now, and he was shocked by the severe degradation seen driving South from Perth. Bare Paddock in WA, with some rocks and Pademelons visible There was evidence of overgrazing (mainly sheep in that area) and exces...

I'm turning 2.5 dry acres of Knapp weed and sand with a falling down OSB cabin into a dozen Hugelkulter paddocks with a quasi Wofati with a Rocket Mass Heater.

In previous articles I talked about the earth dam to harvest water, and water tanks in the highest point of the site. The house is 80 m from the dam and 10 m below, which give us a 1kg/cm2 pressure, enough to use it without problems. We made two water connections. The first one with a 1 inch tube...

Today at home with my children surrounded by the warm sun and softness of the world. Powerful and lovely, hand covered with soil the sweetest smells of life pushing up for its first peek, its first breathe. How must it feel to emerge into life once again or prepare the journey from seed. All the ...

When I've been doing design work for other people recently I've thought, how come I can manage to set aside the time to design their gardens or smallholdings but struggle to do everything I desire in terms of designing my own? This has been a pattern for that last year and a half. The f...

In early 2012 the Community of Wildwood approached me requesting a design for a permacultured community garden which is slated to begin construction in May of 2012.

Our journey leads us East again as we head up towards Belgium.  On route we stop at La Ferme biologique du Bec Hellouin, an experimental organic farm being adapted according to Permaculture principles in more recent times.Parts of rural France feel like stepping back in time, the beautiful landsc...

My recent arrival in Bali could be described somewhere in between a hard and soft landing.  I am familiar with Southeast Asia from months of travel in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Phillippines, and Thailand and the superficial flavor of those countries is definitely here.  However, it differs in so m...

Join Permaculture teachers, designers & gardeners Daniel Hatfield (Healthy Harvest Kitchen Gardens) and Gordon Williams (Free Range Food Gardens) for a weekend of intensive permaculture design, theory and practical workshops for the home gardener or backyard farmer. Learn how to: Ha...

A up to 44h food forest project. We start with 1h and one food forest cluster and see than how it is going. In detail documentation will follow.

Um projeto coletivo de famílias de permacultores no sul do Brasil, no município de São Pedro de Alcântara SC. Numa área de 87 hectares de mata atlântica se propõe a construção deste projeto.

Jorge Timmermann e eu já demos muitos PDCs pelo Brasil, mas este teve um gostinho todo especial: dar um PDC na nossa casa! Yvy Porã, terra bo em tupi guarani, recebu o grupo de braços abertos, e com um espaço permacultural, as aulas teóricas tinham sempre um pé pronto, ali ao lado, nas ações d...

Neste espaço a proposta era de vivenciar a permacultura num  PDC com um grupo pequeno, em 9 dias de imersão total, já que Yvy fica a 14km da cidade de São Pedro de Alcântara. Ou seja, nada de agito da galera, nem grupo grande, aqui a proposta era mesmo de cuidar das pessoas, estabelecendo...

I have officially sold my first produce that I have grown.  I had an unreal year for kaffir limes and passionfruits - all have been growing for about 3 years - ther is 1 Kaffir Lime tree and about 6 passionfruit trees that make up my fedge.  My partner and could not keep up eating it all, so we c...

Cabbage in salads, cabbage in soups, boiled cabbage, wok-fried cabbage, mashed cabbage, red cabbage, chinese cabbage, white cabbage, portuguese cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli….. We want to make the most out of these essential plants that are growing so vigorously in our vegetable beds. B...