Transforming an abandoned hay field into Eden. Food from the land, fuel from the forest.

Having very very difficult time in trying to convince people about the possibility that permaculture is not just a fantasy. I don't know if people are threatened by it or what but people all seem to look upon it in disbelief. argggh

1. Connecting house ventilation with greenhouse, bidirectionally. 2. Building a commercial hydroponic curtain. 3. Building a DIY hydroponic waterfall-staircase. 4. Building an aquaculture pond. 5. Connecting greenhouse watering with outdoor vertical gardening. 6. Functional testing and plant...

RNDIY base camp for more scalable, integrated and resource-efficient household ecosystems for a cold climate.

August 2011 I subscribe to a variety of permaculture blogs and received one last year showing a man digging a swale the width and depth of a shovel head, having marked the contour of his land using a home-made A-frame level. I regret to admit I cannot find this blog entry anywhere to give you a ...

We will develop 40 acres of ex-pasture land into a permaculture food forest, our home and a variety of tourist accommodation as well as holding workshops for developing manual skills.

  Community Cultivators Helps individuals and organizations realize the abundant potential of community through the cultivation of ~ mind, body and soil ~ Join in the Cultivation at mindbodysoil.blogspot.comNote: I'm not actually putting a pond at this site and I didn't go over design features...

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We are just about to close up the demonstration site--we have installed two large steel gates, and now have about 300 meters of razor wire left to run atop the earth berm and then we'll be able to control the grazing inside. The Eastern Gate to the demonstration site is where large trucks will b...

This intensive 7-day on-farm course will cover many essential and practical aspects of permaculture teaching that can then be applied to PDC teaching, community permaculture education, permaculture school garden teaching and many other forms of knowledge transfer. http://www.milkwoodpermaculture...

Chapter 6   Demanding that someone else do something to fix the world is generally ineffective. The important question to ask is, “What can I do to improve the habitat for myself, and the other living things around me?”   We are, already, a part of something larger than ourselves: our...

The project of the permanent gardens to be begun in 2004 to get back structures, to invest in the earth and is going to begin to reconstruct these buildings in 2012. I needed more than two years for the preparation and the implementation of the file of stake for the survey public to have a legal...

The original post is to be found at my blog Permaliv.    The roof plays a primal role in our lives. The most primitive buildings are nothing but a roof. If the roof is hidden, if its presence cannot be felt around the building, or if it cannot be used, then people will lack a fundamental sense ...