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Back to the Hill 2015

Patrick McGinn
With the work I have done recently seems like mushroom cultivation would be a good use of this land. pkm The Blue butterflies are abundant down near the creek.

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Swale down the North Side

Jennifer Brown

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Sunshine Farms

Sunshine Farms
This is my own personal PDC project. I am working on 5.5 acres and have implanted swales, hugelkulture, herb spiral gardens, and food forest; added goats, chickens, ducks, turkeys, and rabbits. My goal is to strive for a self sufficient system.
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perma-fun-K Permaculture & Regenerative Agriculture Education & Designs

rosa maicas
  Permaculture &Regenerative Agriculture Education & Ecological Designs We are an educational non profit organization that offers Permaculture & Regenerative Agriculture hands-on workshops for adults and children in Northern California and Spain. We also offer ecological design c...
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The highway from private banking to Organic Agriculture

Renald FLORES
Numbers, numbers, numbers. Financial affairs. Money dealing. Budgeting. Investment, cash management, return on investment, Competition, risk return, growth, growth, growth; that was my world, a little while ago…   When I first started in this industry, I thought making money would make me ha...
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End of the First Season

Freya Mackenzie
A busy first season in the garden concluded with an abundant harvest of fresh food to our local foodbank. It felt great to drop off so much wonderful food to people we knew would need it, and was a satisfying conclusion to the season. In addition, we planted two fruit trees, three seaberry bush...
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Cold climate polyculture

Richard Larson
This is one of my trellised grape designs. It is basically 10 foot long posts sunk two feet in at a 55 (?) degree angle. It also serves as a 2x3 inch mesh by 6 foot high welded wire fence to keep the critters out of a main crop garden. The idea came to me because I wanted a blackberry companion...
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Parkland Permaculture

Parkland Permaculture
Parkland Permaculture is a permaculture group that meets monthly in Kelwood, Manitoba, and serves the area around Manitoba's Riding Mountain National Park.
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Two-week 72hrs Permaculture Design Course

Miroslav Kis
Learn sustainable living skills and earn an internationally recognised certificate for sustainability consulting! Discover how to plan food forests, organic gardens, natural buildings, renewable energy systems, rainwater catchment, aquaculture, urban permaculture, and much more! The Perma...

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Swale

Peter Lundy
I've been working on a swale to capture extra water to feed a vernal pond. I've dug the low spot a bit deeper to hold more water on the landscape.   This spring I'm planting hardy pecans, hazels and aronia. The forestry department here in Indiana has a great program for native plants. !00 stic...
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The Urban Garden Project Crowd-Funder on Indiegogo

Kat Gawlik
  Our 200m² urban garden here at Koanga Institute is over a year old now and we hope once further developed it will become a model to live by in urban areas around the world. It is our goal that a family of four will be able to satisfy their nutritional requirements (Weston Price principles) a...
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Peacemaker

Peacemaker
To live a productive healthy life without damaging my environment or harming other people.
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Picasso Food Forest

Picasso Food Forest
A public urban food forest to inspire, build community, share, learn, improve local ecosystems and biodiversity, increase resiliency, whose fruits are available to the inhabitants of Parma.
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Permaculture Design Elements Deck : Placemaking Booster

Delvin Solkinson
  Permaculture Design Elements Deck : Placemaking Booster From the forges of Gaiacraft comes a new booster to the permaculture design elements deck, a visionary permaculture learning and teaching toolkit inspired by teachings and tools from Rosemary Morrow and Michael Becker. This booster set s...

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Out of Ashes Farm

Out of Ashes Farm
Out of Ashes Farm is a small permaculture farm providing food, education, design and consultancy.
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Blog posts about acorns

Alder Burns
There are a couple of recent posts on this blog about what I've been learning about feeding acorns to people and chickens!
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Leaf Mulch Adventures, and Other Updates

Ann Cantelow
This last autumn was my second year collecting bagged leaves left out by neighbors for trash pickup. In 2013 the count was something over 130 bags collected. This year I had more experience (and kept a better count), got up to 254 bags plus a pickup load from someone I saw loading clippings to wh...
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PDC Video Course

Andrew Wheatland
Well, after many hrs of video viewing, I have finally finished Geoff's PDC course video series. Loads of great info learnt, will probably have to watch various parts again. Great reference material. Loved Bill's stories and funny lines. The whale story was particularly funny. Now to locate a s...
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