“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, they find it attached to the rest of the world." - John Muir ⠀ Permaculture Design Elements Game. Free Download.⠀ Sharing over 170 cards featuring elements commonly found in permaculture gardens, farms, homesteads and urban spaces.  Download 2021 edi...

New word - Slowbalisation. Covid-19 has been the major disruption to globalisation within the past twelve years. The pandemic will not kill globalisation off, but it will deepen the cracks. Local supply chains have lot of sense, emissions wise... I still remember this story - British seafood ship...

I just started teaching Permaculture Crash Course for the Tropics. It is a one day course and is focused on the strategies for the tropics. At the moment it is being taught in the English language with the hope that soon it will be taught in the Malay language (Malaysian language). 

In the late 1980s my father Hans Herrman Gruber designed an edible Forest garden behalfe of the ideas of Robert Hart. See our 30 years old foodforest in this short video ...

Urban Foodforest

With Covid eliminating our training schedule for almost all of 2020 we have had more time for various projects. One of them was to construct a simple and lovely willow fence that is designed to hold our woody brush until it breaks itself down. This link will take you to our blog post describing t...

Because we have plently of black willow that we can harvest we decided to weave together a brush fence. Follow this link to a full description of how we made it. https://midwestpermaculture.com/2020/08/living-woven-willow-brush-fence/

"Sa Pagitan ng Kalikasan, Pagkain, at Mga Tao" (contest entry name: "The Land Will Grow, The Food We'll Eat") --a documentary film by Brian Sulicipan and Tel Delvo (Winner of the 2nd Best Film at the 3rd DOST Indie-Siyensya Filmmaking Competition 2018 under the Open Category with the theme, "Wh...

Hello! Here's a link to a map of permaculture projects in the Philippines: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1c_yQmnWt0_IXzCxexx-xEEt_PqqcLmbm&usp=sharing Also, here's a compilation of journal publications on permaculture: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lxI4JuDzpR2eWH8pVERm...

So after my PDC in January 2020 my two goals for the year were: - meet other Permies and network - buy and read more PC books So as goal #1 is sort of put on hold at the moment, I went a bit wild on the books. Now I just have to find time to read them :-)

I have completed my 3rd online PDC course that I planned, lectured and coordinated the two additional teachers that I engaged. The course started in September 15 with 20 students and ended on October 11th with 18 students. 15 of them received their certificates. 3 of them didn't because 2 of them...

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Our new beds that we are growing in a total vegan fertiliser. the results are amazing from seed to plate in 4 weeks

The project is within 6 min walk to University of Maryland. The plot size is about 8,276 sqft with a single family home on the property. The project involves a permaculture design with experimentation with various renewable energy projects such as biogas, micro hydro, solar, and wind(possibly). ...

Having been blessed with my own land to caretake I am honoured to be able to share my experience with fellow permies. Growing vegan organic keep intouch for the results..

The book is a Permaculture Study Group of Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) experience synthesis on teaching permaculture at the academy. Wrote in Portuguese and released in two ways, printed and e-book versions, Teaching Permacultura aims to encourage educators/instructors on PDC tea...

Hi, I am still here... improving my projects and living slow. In summer I am organising workshops about everything I have done here so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJfi9Iq3R00  I is mainly about: permaculture design, living off grid, building with natural materials (cob, light clay, wo...