We worked on the BSF bins this past weekend.  They're nearly finished, just waiting to get painted with a limestone + cactus juice wash.  Also I posted a copy of our BSF workhop handout; 2 pages of details on bsf larvae.  Feel free to use it to create your own for your next bsf bin workshop.  

Community Garden following the principles of Permaculture

This is a super exciting, leading edge  and empowering Internship! Learn  to design a low cost, local, low tech, passive solar home, and all the things that make a home autonomous. This course will teach how to make it stand-alone and be regenerative too. You will have the opportunity to get f...

Learn everything you need to know to set up your own bioregional seed bank - Your future food security! As community based organisations develop skills and networks that foster local sustainability and community self reliance, the question of seed saving becomes increasingly important. While s...

Register ASAP, this course fills quickly. An intensive twelve day course covering the curriculum recognised by the International Permaculture Research Institute, plus much more including: -an introduction into Holistic management (Allan Savory) -the latest on nutrition (Weston A. Price Foundat...

A permaculture driven indipendent micro-farm in the North West of Italy - a fair, local, sustainable, healthy food production

What a strange couple of weeks it has been here at the farm. Within the past two weeks, there were two nights where the overnight temperature was the freezing point for water. The night air was dark, crisp and clear and the stars put on a great show, and Poopy the Pomeranian especially enjoyed...

I ran out the other morning and shot a couple short videos of the Red Devons.  It’s just a quick homestead update with the new baby, Sabina, and you can really see how big the bull calve is getting.  RedEye the bull was born in April and at just under six months I think he’s pushing 500 lbs., t...

Hi All,  I'm glad to announce that Fabien Tournan is now my partner in "Radiant Design" consulting services based in Marrakech. Long time friends, and collegues since last year, we are now working together full time. We just launched our new website www.permaculturemaroc.com which will soon have ...

This course is held on a 268-acre domain equipped with a private lake, a beautiful little river with a small waterfall, all of which is located 1km from the sacred Abenaki mountain of Mont Pinacle (visible from the house) and 3km away from the charming village core of Frelighsburg, QC. It is 5km ...

While the leaves are busy changing colours and the weather is turning to mittens and hats, the P3 Team is busy filling hearts and minds with permaculture positive energies this fall! We have a great group of motivated people who are ready to be part of the change and ready to launch forward with ...

Our current Permaculture Design Certificate is under way in Montreal and going strong. A beautiful, varied and smart group of individuals have graced us with their presence and have embarqued on this permaculture voyage with an array of different skills, hopes and expectation. This equates once a...

College of Agroclimatic Studies - Phase One in Telchac Puerto, Yucatan

Mrs F wanted to be able to return home after having the stroke, and her family agreed that would be best for her. This project used Permaculture ethics and the Zones to modify her home environment and set up the care needed.

The Kingsly Comunity Primary School wanted to have a organic edible garden facility that could be used to support the education of the primary school children and inform their parents and other adults on sustainability and local organic food growing.

I'm a not so young professional female (43) in Colorado that recently resigned from my job to travel around the world visiting permaculture sites to volunteer, learn and grow my permaculture knowledge. I'll be traveling in 2016. I would like to start in Latin America. I hope to blog and vlog abou...

So I've finally finished my solar kiln, and as I write, it is in the process of drying a lovely load of local ash. The build cost somewhere between $1000 - $2000 dollars, all told, and probably took in the neighbourhood of 50 - 100 hours to complete, working nearly exclusively by myself.  If I d...

So I've finally finished my solar kiln, and as I write, it is in the process of drying a lovely load of local ash. The build cost somewhere between $1000 - $2000 dollars, all told, and probably took in the neighbourhood of 50 - 100 hours to complete, working nearly exclusively by myself.  If I d...