Friday morning found the editor and I awake before the sun had even risen. Usually, it is an unwise person that would attempt to discuss important matters with me before breakfast. No one is safe in that regard and even the editor is shooed out of the kitchen should she attempt cheery banter befo...

Our Mission Statement    The Lewisville Permaculture Center works with people and communities to promote a thriving culture built on a foundation of local, integrated, and sustainable agriculture.   Philosophy LPRC is based on a whole-systems approach to permaculture design and sustainable l...

Self-taught permaculturist, I practice in my garden, at Sounine, in the north of Tunisia, since 2012. I test at my scale permaculture techniques : vegetable garden without tillage, multi-layer forest garden, thick mulch ; I am very influenced by Massanobu Fukuoka and natural farming and recognize...

Design Option #3 presents a more broad scape, equal distribution of production system types. These types are Woodland, Shrubland, and Prairie, with reforested regions on the perimeter. Each system is production based, planted on contour and are select crops. These crops may be more conventional i...

Design Option #2 is the most productive based option. The back nine acres is developed to farm a select number of crops, oriented on contour, that are perennial and high in market value. The crops shall have a time-range of 1-5 years before harvest. The plantings are sited to accommodate pathways...

Design Option #1 is a succession based, perennial, tree centric plan with emphasis on high market value crops. The tree crops are comprised primarily of select hardwoods with inter plantings of select crops, such as chestnut cultivars and/or clumping bamboo. The trees are densely planted to be se...

Design Farm - Earth Care Farms was commissioned by the Gekas family to design and develop their 20 acre site in Kansas City, KS. The primary intentions are to design a functioning high market value, perennial crop based system that would also serve as a agrotourism destination, where guests c...

From Foundations (garvelbags), to different wall techniques (Strawbales, cordwood and stick-frame), making of Adobe bricks and "Light-earth" bricks, Earth and LIme plasters, Lime wash finishings with natural pigments... 9 days of off-grid camping, with good food and nice community living !...

Recently completed 350' of swales along with 50+ fruits trees and shubs including apple, pear, peach, apricot, nectarine, apricot, plumb, mayhaw, pawpaw, jujube, fig, mulberry, blueberry, blackberry, juneberry and more.  Looking forward to my first spring with 5 hugle beds created in the fall.

A PDC on the self-organised, expermental site on agroforestry will take place in 77/Claye-et-Souilly, a short way est of Paris, from the 27mai until 06 june. A full groups' experience, hence there is no running water, no electricity, no internet (!YES), but a lot of animals, plants, trees, outdo...

my first PDC (in french) this year will take place from 20 april until 01 of mai in the wonderful, naturally unspoilt area of the méditerrenean Cévennes. the PDC will be followed by a week of training and exchange between students and tutors of permaculture, where we will (partly) implement the ...

Leafhopper Farm just picked up it's first installment of chestnut trees from Washington Chestnuts up near the boarder with B.C. Canada. We're setting the seedlings into pots for now while we move them around the landscape to see where they thrive best. The back field is looking like the best plac...

80 acre farming property showcasing a large variety of permaculture earthworks and operation schemes to maximize production and regenerate local ecosystems

As we enter 2016, we have half-dozen swales built on contour as a means to capture and hold moisture.  At 10" rainfall annually and no irrigation on the property, it starts there.  Fall of 2016 will see application of organic matter on swales with sowing of perennial drought tolerant varieties in...

Around here on the Traditional Catholic Homestead we like to have lots of things in the fermentation crock so to speak.  One of our favorites, adults and kids alike, is kombucha.  What is kombucha?  Well, in a nutshell, it’s a sweet tea that is fermented so that much of the sugar is used ...

Some folks may not know what Permaculture is or why I would go through the trouble of creating an entire post or perhaps series of posts on the subject.  Well I will broach the subject by stating that permaculture techniques are going to be central to our transition, as a family, from the...

The land consists of 100 cultivated acres (potential for another 100 acres and irrigation); balance of property consiste of grazing land, potenial for berry production,water well, dam, power, several potential building sites, OIL REVENUE. The area is a EMR free zone, no cell towers. Located in th...

The land consists of 100 cultivated acres (potential for another 100 acres and irrigation); blance of property consiste of grazing land, potenial for berry production,water well, dam, power, several potential building sites. The area is a EMR free zone, no cell towers. Located in the cold climate...