My next step will be the hands on PDC for humid tropics later this year (2015), which should give me all the tools to start PD. Will keep you posted on the progress.
All very Mad Max. Bare, parched soil. A few Coconut trees. A couple of Neem trees. 3 or 4 tall spindly legume trees, to be identified, that are currently in seed, which we have collected for germination. One of the poor old coconut trees that you can see in the pic appears to have been beheaded. ...
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So I've been around a while on permies.com and that seemed the best place to share the project I submitted for the PDC online with Geoff Lawton. I see many flwas and things I could have done better. I think I'll write some updates, and of course share the real world achievements I gain.
One thi...
Since 1978, Heartwood Institute has been a leading Healing Arts school, teaching massage therapy and integrative medicine. Since its inception, Heartwood has taught thousands of students from around the world, empowering and transforming people's lives.
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Today is the official first day of winter and the weather lived up to all of those expectations by providing a light dusting of snow high up on the main ridge above the farm.
A light dusting of snow washes out the colour on this musk daisy bush
Snow is such a novelty here t...
One of our homesite goals is to have an abundance of perennial food plants. This update is about my efforts in this direction.
I have planted several perennial food sources, and the Jerusalem Artichokes seem the happiest so far.
I also planted stachys affinis and they have come up and look pro...
We are in the beginning phases of creating our small space of abundance, but one success we have had is in the passive solar heating of our house. The southeast wall is about 140 square feet (20feet long and different heights). Glazing on this wall is around 90- 100 square feet, approximately 65...
PRI Practical Diploma student Roman Eisenkoelbl talks about his diploma experience and some of the closed cycle systems at PRI Sunshine Coast. Video filmed and edited by Pier Galetti, volunteer at the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast. http://www.permaculturesunshinecoast.org
I have mistakenly been putting my project updates under my profile, instead of the project itself. From here on, I will post updates on my project correctly.
So a few days ago, I posted an update on the swales I dug in my established backyard garden. It had rained on occasion before that upd...
Hjälmaren is an 11 acre rural residential project. The owners wish to become less reliant on fragile resources, by growing more of their own food, and reducing energy needs.
