Forest garden in early spring (ie still plenty of frosts) Garlic coming up, and all the chickens a-laying... Spring is slowly but surely springing at Milkwood, and our new forest garden is beginning to wake up from the cold and grow, grow grow! Read More »

Above: The contour dam with the level spillway working   Above: The lockpipe at work   Above: The rain falling into the dam   Above: The Diversion channel feeding the dam

First day in the field – making compost!! Yesterday we gave the Pygmies one assignment: to clear the land we will be farming on, and collect all the weeds and foliage in piles. This morning we were thrilled to arrive and see a perfectly clean field, with green piles on either side. I...

The changeover from a classical suburban garden with a lot of exotic decorative plants to a permaculture garden that idealy would provide all the vegetables and herbes for our family and be a wildlife haven in the neighbourhood.

My home was designed as a final excercise in the PDC I attended in Oct 2011, and I thought upon coming home again... why not make the design reality??

  Around Moraro, there is food to be had for free. Forest fruit trees are every where but the choice is not up to us but to the season. One favourite is palm fruits. There are quite a few species and sometimes we have to brave thickets to get to the trees but the adventure is worth every effort...

We are always thinking of ways to reduce, reuse and recycle so recently, when I realised how common it is to see wood pallets thrown out in nature, on the side of roads, parking lots or junkyards, I thought 'what can I do with those?' The good news is that with a bit of imagination and some DIY,...

Today was a wonderful day, the perfect start to this project we’ve anticipated for so long!! Dom picked us up in the morning and we were off to see the Pygmies!  We drove along the edge of gorgeous Lake Kivu, past hundreds of people hard at work, tending to their plots of land… the...

We drove to the border. First we stopped at Immigration on the Rwandan side. During our 10 minutes there, we saw 3 United Nations vehicles with soldiers cross the border (both coming and going) and a USAID vehicle. So we got our stamp and carried on, across the wooden bridge that passes ...

The UP House is a representation of it's 12ish members love of health, non-traditional family, community outreach, activism, the arts, food, self-sufficiency as community, very light ecological footprints, nature stewardship, spiritual growth and just a damn good time! All of this made possib...

Soil, Light, Darkness, and the Cool Refreshing Gift of Water.In all, they are supporters of life.Soil bacteria, fungi, and insects infiltrate every niche and space in the underworld creating a rich soup of goodness for our plants known as humus (grow chick peas or garbanzo beans with herb...

Little Artshram is proceeding with a year-long final design phase and planning of Little Artshram’s 4.3 acre parcel, preparing a detailed site-plan. This permaculture design will bring together and use a range of different tools, approaches and techniques as appropriate to the 4.3 acres,...

http://permaculturaportugal.ning.com/events/oficina-constru-o-de-swales Workshop content Conteúdos da Oficina Observar e Reconhecer padrões na paisagem - To observe and recognise water patterns in the landscape Interpretar a biodiversidade - To interpret biodiversity Solos - Soils Microbiol...

We are always thinking of ways to reduce, reuse and recycle so recently, when I realised how common it is to see wood pallets thrown out in nature, on the side of roads, parking lots or junkyards, I thought 'what can I do with those?' The good news is that with a bit of imagination and some DIY,...

On a 3/4 of an ace we started to set up a permaculture garden. We are happy that we got the garden with about 60 medium sized worn out but yet still somehow productive fruit and nut trees. At the moment we rehabilitate the trees, create a design plan and started some soil decompaction on the spot...

aquaponics setup 2010 and Frog Life

Dates: 23 January until 4 February 2012 Classes will begin each day at 9:00 am and end at 5:30 pm with appropriate breaks for Prayer,  lunch and refreshments. REGISTER ONLINE: CLOSED   Location: Kuang, Selangor D. E., Malaysia. Within a half hour drive or train ride from Kuala Lumpur. Dir...

We are currently staying at Bustan Qaraaqa in Palestine and just happen to be here during olive harvest season... we are also here during an interesting time because of the Shalit Deal, where Israel swaps one Israeli soldier for 1027 imprisoned Palestinians... so, how do we link olives with the S...