Good timing. After almost 4 weeks of an unusual spring drought, we planted our fruit trees and berry shrubs . In total about 16 trees: four apples, one pear, a peach, a nectarine, a plum, a khaki, a walnut, two cherrys, two hazel, an amelanchier, a grafted cornus, to call them by names. I dont wa...

A no till organic garden entirely volunteer driven. All produce harvested goes to a local food pantry. Volunteers learn how to grow food without tilling, turning, spraying, or fertilizing.

Visionary Permaculture : Biodynamic Sheet Mulch Community Garden Building Don Van Kleek is a visionary. When he approached me about creating the 'Community Peace Gardens' to allow local people to grow their own food on site I leaped with joy. This will serve as an educational opportunity t...

Nature is taking care of most of the work for us. The first of our cover crops, crimson clover, is in full bloom. Our white clover is blooming, but not yet into full bloom. Their relative red clover is just beginning to flower while the alfalfa is failing to show any signs of blooms yet. Se...

Finally we have chickens!Even when you are trying very hard to not have to throw food away you do have some leftovers sometimes so I'm very happy the hens can transform them into eggs now. They can also make my compost-heap seed-free, on the photos you ca see I put it inside the coop. I also plan...

Last week, my parents moved in to a small house sitting in a 476 square metre garden. It located in a small city (Crolles) near Grenoble (France). A retired person lived there for quite a while and was a keen gardener. However, I did find some chemicals and pesticides in his garden shed so it is ...

In order to bring change to a local community there has to exist a movement from the bottom up - many people who realise that there is need for change team up and develop new views and alternative techniques to solve problems. But there also has to exist a parallel movement from the top downward....

It's been 1 year and a few weeks after I've laid my hawthorne hedge. it's growing well, there's new shoots everywhere and the cutting wounds are gradually growing over with callus wood. I still have to deal with sceptical neighbours and passers-by, though. They call it sheer luck that the hedge i...

Cultivation of microalgae can be done in open systems (lakes, ponds) and in controlled closed systems called photo-bioreactors (PBR). Open cultivation systems use ponds or lakes with added mechanical equipment to grow microalgae. Open ponds were the first cultivation technology...

A Permaculture Sanctuary

Background:     I have been gardening on my patio for about five years now.  Two years ago however I had to dismantle the garden as there would be no one to look after it while I was overseas for an extended period of time.  The image at the bottom shows what it looked like just previous to...

Developing systems to be implemented in the restrictive space and legal parameters of a Japanese city environment balcony that will enable the production of food, the recycling of waste, and the maximization of catching, storing, and recycling energy.

You may have completed a Permaculture Design Course or read around the subject, and now you want to get hands-on training with guidance from an experienced teacher. Gardening or permaculture experience is not required but you must be keen to contribute and to learn. The Awakened Life Project i...

In one of our recent articles I wrote about companion planting and the specific plants my husband and I have grown successfully together -or not- when growing our seasonal food crops.  This time I’d like to write about the function and use of plants grown in polyculture and how each plant spec...

Here are some photo's of my dead hedge :

  par Steve Read Le tour à perche, tour à bois médiéval, sans électricité, sans bruit. En expliquant comment marche se tour à bois Steve parle de l'état de notre monde actuel et comment chaque entre nous peuvent agir pour crée quelque chose un peu mieux. Steve exposent ces connaissances de la p...