Propagating comfrey is fast and easy!  Comfrey is considered by many to be one of the essential permaculture/homestead plants.  It has so many uses on the homestead that it easy to defend that viewpoint.  From powerful medicinal, to plentiful animal fodder, and soil conditioner/compost activat...

A chicken’s brain is perfectly adequate for the everyday experience of being a chicken. The average chicken displays great curiosity about their world and they also enjoy all of the social banter that goes on in the world of chicken. However, the world of chicken rarely involves moving to a b...

The work in-progress at this rental unit shall be left in place when I leave as food, medicine, and beauty for future tenants who appreciate such things, or wildlife habitat to those not privy or interested.

July 2015 - I took a UAD mapping course at Open Source Ecology and can now create very accurate elevation maps, vegetation and hydrological models using publicly available LiDAR data, or my soon-to-be-built drone!   

Three of the most inspiring, talented, and experienced women in the world of permaculture are coming to Mallorca to teach three special courses in three different Permacultura Mediterránea (PermaMed) demonstration sites. Robin Clayfield will deliver a workshop on creative facilitation/session des...

Volunteers and students, together with Tom Kendall, have constructed a stationary chook tractor to enable chickens to prepare their own patch for planting and eating... At "Maungaraeeda", home of the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast., www.permaculturesunshinecoast.org. Intro and out...

Well its been about two months since the pigs were introduced and everything is working awesome. The pigs really seem to work the edges of the pond, wallowing, pushing out rocks and just pretty well bieng lazy. They do not venture into the middle. Before the pigs were introduced, the water was ve...

Pigeon Peas Bodi Sweet Leaf Tomatoes Basil Parsley Celery Patchoi Chive Big Leaf Thyme Chadon Beni Oregano / Portuguese Thyme

Cassava Sweet Potato Tipi Tambo Tumeric Ginger Yam

Mandarin Rough-skin Lemon Buxom Spice Mango Soursop Julie Mango Jackfruit West Indian Cherry Guava / Guayaba Zaboca / Avocado Duku Mamee Apple Breadfruit Coconut Jamaican Yellow Plum PawPaw / Papaya 'Green Fig' Banana Passion Fruit Rambuttan West Indian Lime Pommerac / Malay Ap...

Backyard permaculture

A simple backyard system involving trees, beds, chooks and pond.

Finca Mono Verde is a permaculture farm in the dry tropical forest ecosystem on the coast of Ecuador. Started by former Peace Corps Volunteers, it also places a high priority on community engagement in the 400 person village of Tabuga.

Hi all    on Netlix  Surviving Progress is the name of a Martin Scorsese film I watched today.   It shows what we are all up against as regards the current culture of destruction.   I hope you all become aquainted with a Brazilian environmental agent named Raquel Taitson-Queiroz, who is there fig...

Convert an abandoned-degraded property to a productive site with food forests, aquaculture, livestock and poultry.

Conversion of a denuded mountainside to a food and lumber forest for conservation and recreation.

Last month I tried the Berkeley method for the first time. I have been very inconsistent with the turning days and it is taking longer than 18 days. The pile got too hot between turnings and when I did the 3-5h turnings, after 3-4 days instead of 2, it smelt a little bit like ammonia. After a mon...

Shared plot in Sefton Park Allotments, in Liverpool UK