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Mulch Basin home greywater system

Corey Schmidt
When building the cabin here at EIIPH, I needed somewhere to send the kitchen water and shower water, so i dug a little hole next to the house and sent it there and filled it with woody mulch.  I transplanted a cattail in the bottom and a sedge, and a willow branch.  For some reason neither the c...

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Recieved my mailed PDC certification

Rodney Robinson
Hey all    Congratulations to all the grads of the Geoff Lawton 3 month online design course.    I emailed in my design on May 15 and got notice that I was certified.    With the arrival of spring, I was working on my 2 acres of wet boggy land in southern Minnesota, applying PC ideas.  Of cour...
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Recieved my mailed PDC certification

Rodney Robinson
Hey all    Congratulations to all the grads of the Geoff Lawton 3 month online design course.    I emailed in my design on May 15 and got notice that I was certified.    With the arrival of spring, I was working on my 2 acres of wet boggy land in southern Minnesota, applying PC ideas.  Of cour...
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Ripped off

Chris McLeod
Beginning from the gold rush era of the 1850’s, for about a century the forests in this mountain range and the surrounding areas have been logged. Large scale wild fires have also left their mark on the forests, with the most recent big one occurring in the summer of 1983 (Ash Wednesday fires). ...
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Certified :)

Nick Rountree
Now PDC certified after all these years! Looking forward to helping establish many, many food forests . . .
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SeedCycle

SeedCycle
SeedCycle is a mobile seeds bank, moved by human energy. Carried in a bike trailer, SeedCycle is on the move around the country rescueing traditional, fertile, viable seeds. SeedCycle is an experience, a comunitary seeds bank, one the travel hand to hand, in a basis of trust, from member to mem...
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curriculum staff

Juliano Riciardi
Julian de Paiva is Riciardi Environmental Designer, Art Educator and permaculturist. He attended the Academy of Oceanography at the University of Vale do Itajaí - UNIVALI (1993-1997) and graduated in Full Degree in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Rio Grande-FURG / RS (1999-2003). Graduat...
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Structures and Frames

Yangtao Wei
In Happy Food Farm, some structures and frames have been built for growing fruits and vegetables.

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Views of Happy Food Farm

Yangtao Wei
Happy Food Farm is not far away from Nanning's city centre, is about 15 mins by car or 30 mins by bicycle. The farm is surrounded by woods (mostly are pine trees) so it is peaceful and has high quality of environment. 

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Introduction of Happy Food Farm

Yangtao Wei
Happy Food Farm is located in the south of Nanning, Guangxi Province, south of China. This Farm is about 80 mu (5.33 ha) including a 3 floors living building, an empty 3 floors breeding building, two fishponds, and several fields and woods. The Farm currently has built some frames for climbing ...

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Looking for Land

S. Symens
I have my eye on a 2.6ha piece of land, which is really big by (overcrowded) Belgian standards. It has a small section where a house can legally be built, and the rest of the property is classified as agricultural land, which can be developed as meadows, orchards or fields. (Mixing the three is n...
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Southwest Florida Permablitz 006

Alex Nikesch
On Sunday, May 30th about 20 permaculturist gathered together at a Naples home to help establish guilds around the existing fruit trees and create paths throughout the burgeoning small food forest. Read on

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Living Roof Project

Keith Mikkelson
Living Roof Project Living Roof Project A cheese cave is under this built environment with planted roof and fish pond. Koi pond cascades down to flow form waterfall and Azolla pond  Tilapia are harvested from the system Herbs and plant nursery KoiPond Water cress, azolla, salva...

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The Ecoquest! - Asia Contacts?

Olof Jönnerstig
Hi We are Olof and Anna from the www.theecoquest.com We are on a global quest to learn more permaculture and help out on farms/projectsWe are also on the lookout for a sutable place to settle in with like minded people near by. Currently we are in Azerbarjan and traveling east through Iran, tu...
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David Spicer & Danial Lawton's Permaculture Earthmoving & Hydrology Course at Eagles Deep

David Connell
Permaculture Earthmoving & Hydrology Course at Eagles Deep, Tatong, Victoria (edit note; Eagles Deep now renamed New Gondwana Farm). Eagles Deep is a 250 acre farm located high in a valley in the foothills of the Victorian highlands managed and hosted by project manager Carl Wantrup and farm...
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Grateful

Delia Rasmussen
Congratulations Fabian and S. Symens.  I finished PDC successfully as well!  Headed tomorrow to a friends to help with her property.  I am so excited to be part of permaculture, changing the world one person at a time:-)  So very grateful for the experience of the PCD class!
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Done! And now start...

Fabian Hofstede
Past Thursday Geoff's team mailed that it's done: the PDC was succesfully completed. Now up to the project itself. Time to start!
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Certified

S. Symens
Just got word from the Geoff Lawton team that I got certified, and what better place to share this wonderful news than on permaculture global!
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