I want to create a food forest.  I have now planted five apple trees, one pear, and a persimmon tree.  I also have 3 blueberry plants and some raspberry plants.  Little by little I am building my food forest.

We start an intense tree planting session according to our Food Forest plan in August 2015! They will mostly be Sub Tropical Fruit and Nut trees (Plums, Avacado, Guava, Mulberry etc with a Coffee understory). We are also visited daily by a tribe of Elephants -- so have to make an extra effort not...

Urban Permaculture Homestead in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Less than one acre of forest gardens with over 250 species of established perennial edible and medicinal plants, Edible water gardens, hedgerows, espalier, etc. While our site and techniques are highly experimental, we are a real, functioning h...

Answer: We don't. We invest in Permaethos' Plant Propagation Course instead. We have 80+ acres to design if we live long enough LOL. We want to put in a cider apple orchard and a pecan and walnut grove plus all the catalpa and mayhaw trees for the ponds. We need tons of leguminous trees and forag...

Because we drive truck long haul in the US, we have friends in various geographical locations that have different characteristics than our place in Oklahoma. Of particular interest is a property in Utah owned by a friend. The two properties, ours and his, are polar opposites. We are warm tempera...

Five acre rehabilitation of old nursery land. Soil is badly degraded, very acid and compacted. Our goal is to convert this damaged land into a productive permaculture education site.

I struggled for several hours trying to make sense of the arcane instructions on how to get contour lines from Google Earth onto a map of my terrain using Sketchup, but I finally managed :-)  A frustrating but ultimately rewarding exercise... They're spaced at 20cm intervals. The highest point ...

Today I have seen that they verified my Geoff Lawtons online PDC course! Thanks!

(Please note: This is a quick post written 8 years ago (with small edits along the way) just to get the basic concept out there and 'on paper'. Suffice to say that while some things may, for example, be out of date or obsolete, etc., it is afterall a continuously-evolving work-in-progress.) “O...

We are starting Permaculture Life School, a K-12 homeschool supplemental program to teach kids how to start and run a permaculture homestead/farm, a small business & work in teams, using problem solving and critical thinking.

Help support our school here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/permaculture-life-school/x/11054819#/story 

A five acre permaculture property 50 minutes from Melbourne with a range of heritage animals, gardens and farming system. We invite visitors from HelpX and hold information days, events and workshops through out the year.

So all the stressing over the design was for naught. Received my certificate in the mail signed by the incomparable Geoff Lawton himself. I am so proud of that piece of paper and all that it means and all that it could mean in the future. I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but I just wan...

2 acre site inside the village of Dodge Center Mn

Implementation of the approved design submitted during Geoff Lawton's Online PDC converting 83 acres of hay fields and forests into a self sustaining drought resistant permaculture site.

7 Day Permaculture & Yoga Course in Eco Village Rancho Delicioso in Costa Rica Both Permaculture and Yoga are about achieving a dynamic balance. Come to Costa Rica to learn about both during a seven day course organised on and by eco village and permaculture center Rancho Delicioso.Comment...

Mais um curso PDC na Casa da Montanha de Yvy Porã. Novamente um grupo lindo, vivenciando o start para formar-se um permacultor. Muitas aulas, permeadas de práticas na mata atlântica. Sementes plantadas, agora é acompanhar o grupo na sua caminhada.

The Permaculture Research Institute Luganville volunteers, with Aunty Lyn Tom and I arrived in Port Vila Sunday afternoon and went to our accommodation. We settled in and got prepared for the next day. On Monday morning we went to the Financial Services Commission in Vanuatu to reg...