http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl     The six participants of the Urban Permaculture Course, ‘Farming the City Block’, will present their design which aims to get the most from the all the resources found in a city block   For more details please visit www.gaiaveda.co.uk ...

  After I took my PDC and began the journey into and beyond sustainablity, I realized that I know very little and that there are many in the world who know much more than I do.  Since moving to Costa Rica, I have watched so many foriegners come here and declare that they knew more and that they n...

This is not about peak oil, or climate change, or economic collapse, although, any or all of those may cause significant problems. This is about building the world you want to live in, whether or not there are problems.   We are all, already, engaged in a set of interactions with the peo...

We work on a traditional subsistence agricultural land, converting it into a self sustained food forest, situated in northern Tunisia (Ras Jebel)

Re- posted from my 'Balcony garden dreaming' blog of August 2011 Quirky Doorstep Garden designers of Sydney - I found one! If you want to meet unique people, then do quirky things. Here is how I met Steve, a young daddy of 4 and a real, culture-creating Start-At-Your-Doorstep Design...

Eastern North America's largest and best developped commercial food forest permaculture orchard.

Swifts are building their nests and Kookaburras are teaching their young to hunt.Apples and Plums have set.I hope I can beat the Possums to the harvest.Lupins,Hairy Vetch,Clover and silver wattle are in flower here at Tiger Hill.The Gourse in the area is also flowering and such a beautiful sight....

For so long I have wanted to recycle what I could but sharing homes with people made it not so easy as they didn't understand and always equated it only to house rubbish.Not to say this is bad but I have always looked at recycling on a much bigger scale and not having my own place before made it ...

7 of my blog readers responded to my invitation to experiment with biochar compost fertility. At first glance it is clear that we are a very interesting, colorful bunch, with different amount of experience and knowledge, but we all love to work in the garden, and share enthusiasm for learning a...

The first two TLUD Biochar stoves arrived by plane to Slovenia in march 2011 and another 30 came by sea in august 2011. Now I am introducing the biochar and bichar stove concept to gardeners and farmers - both through my blog and through written articles. I am well avare that it will take some ti...

Natural and holistic alternatives to beekeeping with focus on European honey bee (apis mellifera).

We arrived at the Pygmy village, looking forward to working all day with the women until all the raised beds were ready, as Chizungu had assured us. But there was nobody to be found except the youngest children and one woman taking care of them. With Jeph's help translating, we talked with her...

For so long I have wanted to recycle what I could but sharing homes with people made it not so easy as they didn't understand and always equated it only to house rubbish.Not to say this is bad but I have always looked at recycling on a much bigger scale and not having my own place before made it ...

Swifts are building their nests and Kookaburras are teaching their young to hunt.Apples and Plums have set.I hope I can beat the Possums to the harvest.Lupins,Hairy Vetch,Clover and silver wattle are in flower here at Tiger Hill.The Gourse in the area is also flowering and such a beautiful sight....

I have been drawing a map of our garden.The borders and the buildings are on scale, the rest I drew by heart so it is an estimation. I will also add some photos of the back garden, front garden, sunny and misty weather, odd hedges and vegetable garden...

One small house and many outbuildings on 1.5 acres of grass and 5.5 acres of mixed cold temperate forest.

One of the firsts steps in the planned design for this awesome space. The clean-up of the surroundings, and specially the roof of a structure that was asking aloud for it (almost colapsing due to the amount of cassuarina material accumulated during a period of 20 years), made available quite a l...

This is the first major stage of our property plan, the beds are being filled up with a rich, loamy soil that has silted up the spring fed dam.The house is sitting on a large slab of rock, the backyard in patchy grass on 2-7cms on soil(much erroded from January's rainfall events) on this rock she...