I participated the Permaculture Design Practicum course given by Mustafa Fatih Bakir together with the assistance of Iraz Candas and Aybike Zengin at Dedetepe Ekofarm at Kucukkuyu, Canakkale on August 01 - September 03, 2015. I was a great experience. Divided into two teams we had the pleasure of...

I gave my 2nd Introduction to Permaculture Course in Izmir, on February 28 - March 01, 2015 to six participants.

I gave my first Introduction to Permaculture course in Istanbul on 7-8 February 2015. We started with 7 participants but only 4 of them were able to complete the 2nd day and received their course certificate. The most exciting thing for me was that I gave one of the certificate to my mother Sennu...

Not only did I have an excellent year of fruit and fertility production out in my permaculture Berth Gardens, but I have been practicing bushcraft and I've kept busy while my garden production weans off for fall, learning wild edible and medicinal plants.  Wild Plants of which I've made use (and ...

With the internet and how people tend to RSVP they're attending an event only to drop out last minute, I really had no idea whether I'd be alone or with 30+ new friends constructing bat houses for Bat Week's world record attempt at the most bat houses constructed in a day this October 31st, 2015....

Introducing pigs to degraded, compacted loam soils in S Portugal, aiding to remove undesirable shrubs and improving soil conditions for growth of beneficial herbs, vegetables and perennials.

On part of a 1 ha neglected orchard on municipal ground, a neighbourhood forest garden was created, which is open for local activities and courses.

I am providing Permaculture consultancy services to Addis Ababa University's Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network (HoAREC&N) in the Gambella Region. HoAREC&N are developing an Eco Hub 18 km East of Gambella town. The hub aims to promote Permaculture to local farmers as ...

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On the Monday 21st, a big team went to the land early morning! Frank, his wife, his ‘Bro’: Alfred, Bernard and Dede from Bellaru all joined us, and it has been very nice to feel this support after all the doubts from the previous week. We are starting to be part of the local area and all our neig...

We had our pancakes really early on the Monday 14th,  as we had an appointment with Bernard our neighbour at 7am who is going to introduce us to the Chief of Bellaru, Victor Moltures. The project is right in the middle of land issues, as it is the case everywhere on the island! Now here since 3 m...

Well, we’ve finished our first full year on our new property. We still love it, and we’re still excited about all the possibilities, so I think that’s a good sign. My partner has had to do the bulk of the ‘heavy lifting’, and he’s still enthusiastic, so I’m hopefully optimistic that he’s not go...

Hard times mould and shape the world. You can go to bed one night blissfully unaware of changes in the wind, only to then wake up the next morning and be confronted by an uncaring force moulding and shaping of your personal world. And I use that word “uncaring” in the most literal sense because c...

Ben Falk, author of "The Resilient Farm and Homestead", refers to cold temperate regions such as his Vermont homestead as "storage climates."  In other words, long daylight hours in the summers create a glut of surplus food for the fall harvest, while the long winters that follow are linked to "l...

La Ferme de Sourrou is a site developed over 25 years, managed by two people who have incorporated permaculture principles into land management, animal husbandry, production methods and food and energy autonomy.

La Ferme de Sourrou is a site developed over 25 years, managed by two people who have incorporated permaculture principles into land management, animal husbandry, production methods and food and energy autonomy.

Aloha! I’m happy to announce that we are about to begin activating the site. We will be opening up the gates at noon this Sunday for the first time (Nov 1, 12pm) for a site walk thru and site tour.  Please see the latest issue of The Hayes Valley Voice (attached). It includes th...

Some time ago, I documented some experiments I did establishing willow and caragana cuttings using various methods.  The short-term result of those experiments was that it appeared cuttings driven directly into the sod along my fenceline with NO particular preparation of either the site or the c...