Programa de Certificación Interncional PRI de Diseño Urbano: un enfoque Permacultural.- Descripción general del programa Nuestro programa de certificación de Diseño Urbano es un programa de entrenamiento basado en la permacultura integral de 3 meses de duración que entrelaza el trabajo en clase...

Building a sustainable family farm on 1.5 acres based on permaculture principles.

Tom Kendall describes the process after the cow manure goes through the biodigester. The biodigester compost pits and reed bed are shown and how he generates soil fertility through the cycling process is discussed.

Mid-autumn is a good time for chickens because they’ve regrown their feathers after the summer moult just in time for the weather to turn cooler when they’ll really be requiring all of those feathers to keep warm. It is sort of like being able to grow your own woolly jumper just as the weather tu...

The Philosophy Behind “Let’s Get Dirty! 72 hours of intensive, hands-on training and classroom presentations in the art of permaculture design. 25 community members, students, teachers and at-risk youth will give up their weekends to study bio-intensive farming, recycling, waste management, lan...

PERMACULTURE PRODUCTION MANAGER POSITION VerdEnergia is an eight year old intentional permaculture community and reforestation project located in the mountains of Pursical, Costa Rica. We are focused on ecosystem regeneration and alternative lifestyle creation in one of the most deforested areas...

VerdEnergia Pacifica is a cooperatively-owned permaculture community and reforestation project in the mountains of Lanas de Pursical, Costa Rica. We are regenerating 64 acres of destroyed cattle and tobacco land into a food and energy forest, while working with other farms and reforestation proje...

Onchenda Open Global Food Co-op rcently incorporated as a Benefit Corporation (social enterprise) in Utah, where we will be conducting our proof of concept pilot in Logan. We have taken on another Permie as a partner, Joshua Choate, who owns a two-story commercial building in Logan containing an ...

The last few weekends have been a real pleasure, now that the cold winter has ended and the weather is becoming progressively sunnier and warmer. They have also been extremely busy as we can now get on with all the stuff we have been planning over the winter. Most urgent is the raised vegetable b...

I received my trees from the Indiana Forestry service. Now I have to plant them. 100 of each Hardy Pecan, American Hazel, Black Chokeberry.  I also ordered a few Indian Blood Peach trees, Au Rosa Plum, and Green Gage plum.  I'm currently adding to myfruit production and some nut trees/shrubs.  I ...

Purpose: Assisting a small group of single moms in low income housing produce their own food and learn about growing rather than shopping for healthy meals.

I am so pleased to announce that to start the process of rebuilding the farm, An ECOBUILDING & DESIGN CAMP is planned from 13 till 27 June in the farm; First workshop : focus on design and building of ROCKET STOVE + EARTH FLOOR dates 13 to 19 june Second part : celebration of the INTERNAT...

Advance Notice As we are making preparations for the Ecobuilding and Design camp in Yunus Emre farm, I thought it would be a good time to remind you about Yunus Emre farm, what it is, how it started and its present condition almost 3 years after the devastating fire which took place in 2012. ...

Bei Schloss Türnich in Kerpen haben wir ein Projekt ins Leben gerufen, welches das Ziel hat einen Garten zu schaffen, der sowohl eine ausreichende Ernte bietet, aber auch ein Lehr- und Lerngarten wird - insbes. für Kinder.

In over half an hour, I will be slaughtering a duck and a female goose. I like to use the word slaughter rather than kill as it adds purpose to an otherwise heedless act. On YouTube, I saw a video of Joel Salatin and he spoke words similar to, for there to be life, there must be sacrifice. For so...

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The mp3 audio file for this blog is available on the Souncloud. Regular listeners will be happy to note that I have purchased a new high quality microphone so the audio quality is a whole lot better. Enjoy. Oh yeah, here's the link: Soundcloud watching the detectives Scritchy, the miniature fo...

I have been traveling around the world for the last 5 years working on permaculture projects and communities in several countries. I shared my nomadic journey in 2 articles which you can see here and here . I decided to settle down for a while and bring my knowledge and experience in managing per...