With temperatures between -10 and -30 Celsius but less snow cover than usual, I have been looking for tasks well suited to this "time niche".  It's too early to start up the greenhouse, but longer sunlight hours have begun to kindle the gardening bug in me and I need a productive outlet for this ...

Another thing we did in December before the weather got ridiculously cold was to map out some contours using our trusty A-frame (constructed during Geoff’s PDC last year). We did not want to use those little flags to mark them as the metal stems bend easily and rust when left outdoors, and the fl...

Practical permaculture and conscious connections, the dance of inner and outer ecology

PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST AT THE COAST OF TOGO - LOME' - WESTAFRICA

hello fellows round the world ...we bought a farm (my daughter and myself)... 6,8 ha  ... 1,5 ha of it wood ...at this moment: there is only meadows and lots of water:)... and still: we are starting this year of 2015 with offering solidary agriculture (CSA) for the surrounding regions. Trusting i...

A rustic hippie hot springs resort and educational site based on Permaculture Values, Fourth Way Principles, and Wabi Sabi view of the world. Come discover why you are ((ALIVE))!

On the 26th of January we started another Permaculture Design Certificate course here at the Permaculture Research Institute Sunshine Coast. This article is to give you more of an idea how our PDC is run and what we do. We ask all students to arrive the afternoon before the start of the ...

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5 acre conversion of monoculture farm land, with residence, to a permaculture oasis.

Permies in the Comox Valley are establishing a permaculture guild. Lake Trail Neighbourhood connections, a local community school has been the venue for three potluck dinner meetings to date.  Producing a guild charter will be discussed at our next pot luck meeting. As a founding member of the ...

It’s the 26th of January here and for people in Australia that means Australia day which is a public holiday. Yay! The public holiday celebrates the landing of the First Fleet on the continent way back on the exact same day in 1788. For those that don’t know it, the First Fleet comprised quite...

Well, it has been a most interesting week here as the tropical monsoon slugged its way from the northern and hence very tropical part of the continent (remember everything is upside down in the southern hemisphere) to dump more than an inch of rain here over a couple of days. The rainfall was ...

Last week was just hot. After a few days of intense heat, even the bees were constantly going in and out of their hives just to get some fresh air - even though that was hot air. With the coming of the heat, the forest smells beautiful and anyone who has experienced the rich oil smell of a Euc...

Happy New Year everyone! Waste doesn’t excite me. The farm is located in a remote spot that historically didn’t support much of a human population – so my thinking is that if you have gone to all the effort of bringing materials up here then those materials might as well find some sort o...

For the past few nights something new has turned up here at the farm. Scritchy – the boss dog – and I, go for a walk at night to keep an eye on the kangaroos, wallabies and wombats just to make sure that they’re not wreaking too much havoc in the orchard. The past few nights the torch that I ...

It might be an exaggeration to say that you can see the houses in the photos below from space (maybe), but they’re certainly very noticeable from many kilometres (miles) away. Yeah, I have to confess to my love of Christmas lights. When every house on a particular street just goes feral and...

A permaculture based on creativity. Launching next year.