We don't want to cut down trees in order to grow food. Our site is a shady, second growth, Oak and Hickory forest. Here's how we have learned to use the tree as our primary supplier of water, fertilizer and insect control, while reducing sun-saturation.
By trimming up the lower fifteen feet or...
The runoff from rain (46 inches min. per year), which often comes in great downpours and causes erosion to the nearby lane, my 19 year old son Jeshua built this Bamboo Circle, patterned after Geoff Lawton's Banana Circle in his Introduction to Permaculture Video.
This is a winter picture, so it'...
I am using a method that I developed myself for this design. The design method is R.A.D.F. which it means: Reflect-Research,Analize,Design,Feedback.
Reflect
Before studying and applying permaculture in my life,I always had some difficulties to individuate permaculture products and services...
We are Hombres de Maíz, an organization of young permaculture enthusiasts building a 9 Meters Diameter Earthbag Building as a classroom for the Kids of &th Grade and we would like to share it with everyone.
We've been doing some systems analysis of our Perma Project and prioritizing for the coming thaw. We've had some very unseasonably (strange) wintery weather here that pretty much shuts down the jobs I had outlined a month ago. Normally, I would be digging swales and building berms, assembling s...
Beehive House: a Self-Sustainable House
The Project Beehive House was started in February 2009 by the family of artists and designers permaculture Riciardi Julian, Teresa Dominot Tiê and his son, who conceived and built with his own hands, on the southern coast of Santa Catarina.
It is located...
Sector39 is a pertnership of permaculture teachers and sustainability practitioners. We are based in the Wales borderlands and mainly work in this area. We run courses, design and manage gardens and landcapes and are involved in cooperative development.
Model of the famous waterwheels of Hama in Syria, in the gardens on the National Museum of Damascus.
In the photo, see the diesel pump on the right used to spin the wheel to move water to
make the model look more real. I don't know if this, or the fact that
it wasn't working at all and there...
The Université has taken on the task of regulating PmC education in France, as students will be based from the Université they can then work/study at Permaculture projects who work professionally. The Université also co-ordinates the different Permaculture courses being run in France and supplies...
taught in French and attended by local people and from Martinique and hosted on a bio-dynamic farm , course students are now going on to create a Guadeloupe PmC network and to help each other develop their numerous projects . This was the 50th PDC that Steve has taught over a period of 18 years ....
Thinking Outside the Square In Wagga Wagga: Thoughts on Contour
— by P. David Stockhausen May 10, 2010 - Design & Construction By - Nick Huggins & Paul David Stockhausen
A property on the great dividing range at the start of the Northern Tablelands around 120acres in size. It is off-grid and has to look at alternative energy and building methods to survive and expand along with permaculture gardening methods to manage food sources both added and natively sourced.
Linuwel Steiner School - East Maitland
This is the school that I sent my children to and where I worked for 6yrs. I supported the integration of 2 special needs children within a class and as such had the advantage of being part of that class and experiencing for myself a steiner education.
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