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...

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Before Shot: A front lawn with a slope and zero productivity Our mission: Create a zone 1 keyhole garden on contour that the animals can't wreak havoc on. Oh and don't block the view. The original, rough plan: To begin, we broke up the lawn with the digger on the tractor and laid out logs...

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Integrated Pest Management WEB During my last few co-teaching session at several PDC´s in India and Spain, i developed the Integrated Pest Management Web. My original inspiration happened during a course in India with Rico Zook. My aim with this approach is to visually show the relationships...

Here are a few pictures of our 3rd PDC in Spain,Alta Garrotxa area together with Rico Zook and Soil Sun Soul Team at a beautiful location ,Mas Pujou. Thanks to everyone involved and enjoy the pictures. Thanks for the photos to: Fi , Kate & RomanMusic by : Sun Hayland

Hello Food Forest Friends! At long last, the Festival Beach Food Forest will become a reality this weekend with Earthworks and next weekend with Tree Planting. This project is collaborative effort of the Festival Beach Community Garden, Austin Permaculture Guild, Tree Folks, the city of Austin, ...

This is not a big land, rather, I cal it a small peace of a Nature in Ger area. Ger area is a sub urban part of Ulaanbaatar city where people live in a small peace of private land/yards. Unfortunetale most of them have no trees, grasses, plants at their lands. Ger area covers about 20.000 hectars...

A long time ago in a mountain range far, far away…. Well, to be totally honest it was only a few weeks back, but it does seem like a long time ago that the new chicken enclosure “Chooktopia” project was completed. The completion of the new chicken enclosure was a real setback for the Rebel Rode...

Food forest on a 1.3 acre of land with fruit trees, ponds, terraces, animals, rainwater harvesting, etc.

Pigeon Peas – Perennial food source for people and poultry People who grow food for people and animals will appreciate the many benefits of growing pigeon peas. Pigeon Peas October 2015 Many cultures love and grow this plant, but here in the USA, we don’t hear much about it.   We’re grow...

1/2 Acre Food Forest

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Toothy the long haired dachshund is a feisty little character. He has a quick temper and loves a bit of scrapping. Scrapping is the act of fighting, normally hand to hand – but in the case of a dog – claw to teeth fighting. Despite his diminutive stature (dachshunds are a little bit height challe...

We demonstrated to the locals what is Hugalculture, and how we can benefit from it. As a demonstration we made a small bed. First we dug up a couple of feet of soil https://youtu.be/ZOARhMK2hbk.  Then added about 3" of fresh manure https://youtu.be/-n31UHWLMnc.  Then we filled the hole with woo...

On the Monday, 7th we were lazy due to heavy rain and postponed our way to the land, we finally stayed home all day and did a bit of cleaning after a great heavy sweet breakie : tarro porridge with jam and pawpaw !  Dany made some soap, Meriem sorted out legume seeds: benoir or ‘rain tree’ a...

By Michael Brahier, practical student at PRI Sunshine Coast One of the projects that we have been working on the first couple weeks of the Permaculture Life Skills course is making raised beds to plant ginger polycultures. Ginger grows very well in this part of Queensland and is a commodity crop...