Kangaroo and Wallaby guards and protection The 34 acre site that is now the home of Mudlark Permaculture is an open grassland  strip 250mts wide and 500mts long,  set between native Australian bush land and a 280 mt diameter artificially created wetland. The land was considered so poor by ...

Help Build a Flourishing Indiginous Food Forest! We are now offering a FREE Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course, with hands on experience over two months in the summer of 2012 in Anse- Pitres, Haiti. This will give participants the chance to apply their knowledge and help the loca...

After day 1 of the course at the Permaculture College with Robyn Francis it has become clear that it is not only going to help with my design drawing but also every aspect of undertaking a professional consultancy. Robyn is teaching everything from how to conduct a successful meeting with client...

History plays a vital role in the practice of Permaculture. The story of the landscape can be learned through books, soil tests, artifacts and other various methods to learn how the land was once cared for before and after human disturbance. By learning about the story of a landscape, we ...

Rural sustainable housing and livelihoods

After a little research and thanks to an Australian internet site that supplies scythes, I aquired a great tool that will last a lifetime and solve my lawn maintenance problems.  As my wife and I currently rent a small unit with a good size yard, we have lots of lawn, after our garden space, th...

Starting with about an acre of space for a kitchen garden, ultimately over the next 10 years I want to transform 1o acres of land into a sustainable haven.

I'm now in the technical design stage of my water harvesting/irrigation and biological cleaning systems, these will coincide with setting up an off town water system. The dams and associated earthworks will consist of 2 dams (plus a few 'ponds'), 1 as close to the top of the property possible wi...

One of my real weak spots in Permaculture design is actually drawing the design, I've never been great at drawing but this is an area that is of great importance if I am to present a client with a clear plan and design. In order to (hopefully) remedy this situation I have just arrived at Djanbun...

Helder and Jorge (leading) sowing barley and wheat in between olive trees   Mr. Antonio throwing the grain, sowing barley mixed with wheat, over the soil previously tilled by the tractor this "mule traction" workshop by Mr. Antonio and Mr. Jorge was a special opportunity to learn and pract...

My studies were finishing for the year and I had some spare time so I keenly volunteered to coordinate the project with garden members volunteering to take on tasks they were interested in and could manage. Our first major break-through came when we rallied together at a Sunday working b...

Mudlark Permaculture is an Urban Permaculture Demonstration site on half an acre. Our intention is to live, teach and demonstrate Permaculture ethics and principles in action, and to empower our community into a future of low energy living.

O Sitio "Floresta", consiste num espaço de 8.000m² concebido e manejado conforme os principios éticos e metodológicos da permacultura. Tem como objetivo tornar-se uma Unidade Demontrativa em Permacultura na Região Metropolitana de Fortaleza.

"WE HAVE RECEIVED OUR $1,400 BUDGET FROM RUTGERS!!! WE ARE PlANNING OUR FIRST MEETING OF THE SEMESTER TO PLAN THIS FOREST GARDEN.....STAY TUNED!!!"   RIPE

The Rutgers Initiative for Permaculture Education or RIPE , hopes to empower students and their community by educating them about how low to no tech solutions as well as Permaculture design principles can be viable, safe and most importantly fun for producing food and stimulating local self suff...

My trip to Ananda Gradinka to tweak elements of the survey I carried out in October perfectly coincided with the arrival of the first proper snow of this winter. I may be a lightweight, but I didn't feel up to digging through knee deep snow to get soil samples. Or tramping the land with my dowsi...

‘If we want to survive on this land we must first help to heal the earth,’ said Nicola Netién, agro-ecologist, teacher and co-creator of the NGO Permaculture Research Institute Hellas. He was talking to a group of some fifty people of all ages who had gathered for two days of workshops on...

A permaculture smallholding and educational centre in early stages of development